More Inspiring quotes

Here are a few more inspiring (education-related) quotes from some of the great thinkers in history:


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything--Edward J. Phelps


Statistics are no substitute for judgment--Henry Clay


No one knows what he can do till he tries. -Pubilius Syrus


I am still learning. -Michelangelo (his motto)


If someone tells you who they are, believe them.--Maya Angelou


The whole is more than the sum of its parts--Aristotle-Metaphysica


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.--Aristotle


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel Boorstin


The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.--Eric Berne


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer


Never offer to teach a fish to swim--Proverb


Those who know how to think need no teachers.--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.--Socrates (BC 469-BC399) Greek philosopher of Athens



Anonymom:)

Neat Project

Here is a neat project that one of the kids built this week on his own. We were watching 'Building Big Bridges', a great film out of an original set of architecture videos hosted by David MacCaulay, and Keith decided that he would make a bridge of his own in his Grandfather's workshop out of junk:). He used wood, pins, ropes, nails, and pushpins, and when it was finished he tested the stability of it by pointing a large fan towards it and blasting the thing over a long period of time with ever increasingly high rates of speed. Neat, huh!?

This wonderful son of mine is one of those classic spatial learners who roam the halls of public schools everywhere that no one ever knows what to do with, LOL. He is brilliant when it comes to building things, dissecting the inner workings of machines, and deciphering how the world works in general, but he loathes anything having to do with reading, writing, textbooks, worksheets, or organized learning. When it comes to paperwork I have to be honest and say that he is just plain not interested. He is his own investigator and taskmaster, and it is fascinating to see how easily he puts things together, performs the necessary calculations in his head, and engages in advanced problem solving on a regular basis when there is no doubt whatever that a child like this would have been slapped into Special Ed. in a heartbeat in the public school. He is learning the skills that he will need to survive in the future, but since his main (natural) interests are spatial, everything will always take a back seat to them somehow. It shouldn't be surprising, because that is what talent really is when it comes down to it. We depend on individual strength to supply us with every innovation we have in society. Where would we be if no one could lead us out of mediocrity with an independent, novel solution? Where would we be if talent never surfaced at all because it was overlooked in the name of 'well-roundedness' in a stuffy classroom? Interesting things to think about, particularly when you have a 'lopsided' kid of your own:).

Anyhow, this is a fun example of a classic project out of classic "junk" materials in a basement. Who needs building sets when you've got a packrat for a Grandpa??:-)

Btw, the 'Building Big' Series is a wonderful set of films that unfortunately is not available in DVD right now:(. Since we were wearing out the titles in the library every month I decided to look on Amazon to see if I could find them there, and to my surprise I was able to get the complete set (in video, used of course), for $1.95-$2.99 each! Well, I nailed those suckers down one by one, and now we have the complete set sitting on our bookshelf for everyday use. The 5 titles in the series include:

Building Big--Skyscrapers

Building Big--Domes

Building Big--Bridges

Building Big--Tunnels

Building Big--Dams

Have a great weekend!

Anonymom:)

Freedom Vs. License

In our house we try to homeschool according to the principles of democratic schooling, or ‘free’ schooling. Many people are aware of what this means since the concept has grown widely lately, but just in case they don’t (and because explaining these things helps me to reinforce them for myself), I will explain them all here again:).
The idea of a free school operates on the principle that the school is a living community. As a community, it must be alert to issues that arise and address every problem ASAP in the context of the weekly all-school meeting. The purpose of this meeting as it exists is to solve problems, review upcoming events, and handle subjects related to school business as they arise. A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill in Scotland who died approx. 30 years ago, believed that these meetings were more important to the health of the children than academics or practically any other event that took place at his school. He said that during these get-togethers the children learned to respect each others’ opinions and emotions, bring problems out into the open so that they could be dealt with honestly, and most of all, explore issues that arose so that emotional healing could take place.
The other foundational concept of the free school that is even more important than weekly meetings is the idea of Freedom vs. License. A “free school” is NOT a place where children can cut loose with abandon and do anything anywhere to anyone or anything they please. It is not a place that is rabid chaos 24 hrs. a day either, but an idea that makes a very clear distinction between rules that apply to the individual and those that apply to a group. According to the democratic school view, INDIVIDUAL freedom is sacred. This means that what a child does not want to do he/she should never be forced to do so long as it does not impede on the rights or freedom of anyone else. For example: if Johnny decides that he does not want to learn math or make his bed or attend the party or play baseball, then no one has the right to make him because those decisions are INDIVIDUAL, and affect only him. In another example, if I do not want to eat broccoli with my dinner then it is my prerogative not to have any on my plate because the decision does not affect anyone else but me. The preference for certain foods is my own peculiarity and no one has the RIGHT to tell me to do otherwise.
Freedom regards the rights of the individual specifically. License is another thing, and not at all related to the idea of freedom. License means that in pursuit of your own freedom you tread unfeelingly on the rights or property of someone else. It means that instead of just doing something that is going to affect you individually, you take it upon yourself to do something that is going to negatively affect a group of persons or a single person, OR something inert such as the environment or private property. Deciding that you are not going to wear a blue shirt today is strictly a matter of personal freedom. Deciding to bully/beat up/or manipulate someone falls under the category of License, because you are then encroaching on the right of that person to live happily without fear.
In the town where I live in there are many upscale, boutique-like shops owned by people from NYC that are filled with breakable and expensive things. A huge complaint of many of these shopowners (even the owners of the toy shops), is that children often enter these places and wreak havoc as their parents look on unconcerned. They run around the store, swing on the walls and ceilings, break merchandise, throw tantrums, scream, and generally make holy terrors of themselves, and yet their parents make no attempt to curb their behavior (or just plain leave the store) because they believe that their children should get no restraint of any kind from anyone.
This type of a situation is NOT what freedom is—rather, it is a perfect definition of License. As A.S. Neill might have put it (and did say in several of his books), this is not a free child, it is a spoiled and desperate child. In Summerhill (and other democratic schools such as the Albany Free School, etc.), a child who behaves in a way that threatens or infringes on anyone else would be reported by the victim at the general meeting and a fitting punishment would be meted out by the members of the community in a general vote. New rules might be suggested and voted on as to how to prevent transgressions like this from happening in the future, but adults on the whole generally stay out of these discussions and let the children handle them, though everyone votes at the end and any rule is subject to change.
What is important to note here is that a free school is NOT devoid of rules—–far from it. The difference between this and more traditional models is that children have ownership of the process and participate actively in it at all times, bringing their own charges to bear and then acting to resolve them. People are often surprised to learn that free schools often have long lists of rules, it’s just that these rules are made with personal freedom and the welfare of a community in mind, and are directly controlled by the people who live there.
Essentially, a free child is a child without fear. She is not afraid of authority because she is not subjected to any but her own. She is not afraid of the opinions of others because she has learned to live according to her own opinion. She is not afraid of adults because adults have no more power than she does in her world. They are looked upon as equals first, and an occasional resource second. The argument of Neill, Holt, and others is that when children get respect they learn to give it, and when they have been allowed to live out their childhood impulses in play, natural conflict, messes, dirt, and the pursuit of their own unique interests, they eventually become mature, sociable, mannerly, empathetic, and most of all, independent learners. This is what education is all about, IMO. This is the true definition of what it means to be a well-adjusted, functional human being.
There is SO much more to learn about freedom and license, the concept of self-regulation, raising children without fear, and understanding what all of it means. It is a difficult concept to grasp because the vast majority of us were not raised with freedom—-we were raised with punishment, coercive learning techniques, and the use of guilt to manipulate our every action. As A.S. Neill or any of the people associated with the free school movement would say, we were raised in fear in an oppressive society by anti-social people, and that is a difficult thing to overcome:(.
I have tried to apply alot of the free school concepts to my school-at-home, here. I have found that there are modifications that have to be made due to the nature of a home and family vs. school, but I believe it can be done with quite a bit of success, and we have experienced loads of positive encouragement in the way that our kids have grown up so far. I will try to write more in the future about adapting democratic schooling to the home, raising self-regulated children, and trying to organize life around the complications of HSing in general, LOL. No one method of education is 100% perfect all the time, but there is never any doubt that things are moving forward steadily and there are lots of things to think about for the future. It’s the process, not the product that’s important. This is what we’re striving for.
Anonymom:)

Good Books and Beowulf

Today I took the kids to the library (actually 2 libraries), in search of some really great, well-written old books.
One of the books I was actively looking for was ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ by Phillipa Pearce. I remember reading this book when I was very young and absolutely loving it, but I had forgotten the title as I got older and only remembered it again when I saw it on a recommended booklist several weeks ago. There are no two ways about it. This book HAS to be read to my kids:).
I also had a really great discussion with an older librarian here about the recent trend in watered down, overly simplistic childrens’ books. This woman I was speaking to has always been a diehard advocate of quality books in libraries, and believes that the greater majority of what is now published for children is basically all-fluff and no substance, with too much emphasis on elaborate illustrations at the expense of the story itself. I have noticed this problem the last few years myself when we brought home new books for the kids to read. The pictures looked absolutely incredible on the shelf and the boys gravitated toward them instantly, but once we got home and read them they were almost always disappointed because the quality of the text was so poor, and they never got picked up again until they were brought back to the library and stuck down the chute.
I am thinking lately that this drop in book quality has something to do with societal trends. Children today have an attention span that is approximately 1/16th of what it was even a century ago due to the invention of television, video games, and other distractions. I imagine that publishers today are catering to short, thematically simple books in lieu of the longer, more detailed ones for obvious reasons. Picture books in particular have illustrations that either overwhelm the text or completely obliterate it lately, and the quality of stories in these books is so poor that it is a wonder they are able to turn a profit at all:(. Of course I don’t want to say that there is something wrong with illustrations because there absolutely isn’t. What I think I have a problem with is the replacement of content with pictures. In the era of ‘throw-away’ culture it seems that these books aren’t MEANT to last for generations or be meaningful—they are meant simply to grab the attention of an adult or child, get purchased ASAP, and then sit on the shelf gathering dust for the rest of their lives after that. Of course, there have been a few children’s books coming out that have been good quality recently. The Captain Underpants Series were positively hysterical IMO, and the kids have literally worn them out with repeated readings, re-readings, and knock down fits of gut-wrenching hysterics. Also, who can forget the inimitable Harry Potter Series (yet another series:-)), which has inspired MANY a formerly lackadaisical reader over the past few years? There are some great new contributions to children’s literature out there, but sadly they are few and far between compared with the sheer volume that is produced every year.
Anyhow, here is an old book that I took out tonight that I absolutely love. It is called ‘The Story of Beowulf’ by Strafford Riggs, and it was written as a retelling of the original epic in 1933. I have worn myself out trying to find this book online and in various bookstores, but from what I have been able to tell it is hopelessly out of date and next to impossible to locate. I guess I’ll just have to content myself with taking it out of the library whenever I get a hankering to read it to myself or the kids. Or just myself, LOL. Such is the way of the world.
Here is a picture of this wonderful book. (Clearly I am an UN-skilled photographer in addition to being unable to find rare books, but I’m sure you get the idea:)).

So in honor of old, quality books with few pictures but a wealth of words today, I have decided to end this post by quoting one of the very best parts of the Beowulf story, the last chapter where he dies a hero’s death after many great and heroic deeds ( but didn’t die tragically because he did what he had wanted to in life and left an inspiration that renewed the lives of everyone else).

“Now, at the last, Beowulf was laid upon the sweet-scented pyre, and all about him were heaped countless treasures from the dragon’s mound. Then Wiglaf approached with two flaming torches, to do the dead king honor. Proclaiming the greatness of his dear lord, he held high above his head the flares and plunged them into the pyre. The flames leaped up, staining crimson the dark night, and so great was the glare from the burning that the stars put out their light, and the sea stopped its sad mourning.
Higher and higher rose the flames and with them the lamentations of the people. And the noble earls took up again their sad marching about the burning pyre, and all night long they marched, until at long last there was nothing left of the pyre but a high mound of gray ashes in the gray dawn.
Thus passed to his own gods Beowulf, King of Geatsland, in the North.”

Best to all,
Anonymom:)

Why We Homeschool

There are days when there is no need to wonder why homeschooling is a good thing. Like days when the guys are doing this:). For those of you who are wondering, this is not about a swing. It is not about two brothers pushing each other up to catch their feet in the branches 20 feet above. It is about joy and perfect health and what it means to be alive. Most of all, it is about freedom.
There is a court case in CA that is currently making headlines regarding the right of families to homeschool. There are some mitigating circumstances that make this case less than ideal, but our country was built upon the democratic ideals of personal freedom, so we must ensure that this notion applies to education forever if we are to survive into the 21th century. My hopes go out to the people who face resistance to homeschooling in local school districts and states. It is important at all times for us to educate ourselves about our rights and keep a professional attitude 24/7 about what we do. Being informed is the best defense.
Good Luck to All!
Anonymom:)

Home Sweet Home (School)

Homeschooling as a method is incredibly versatile and is something that is nearly impossible to define when it comes to the purposes and goals of individual families. Anything and everything can fall under the homeschool umbrella. Methods, materials, resources, times, or places that any one person or family prefers will work well as long as they are suited to that family, and as long as a child has free choice of whether to use them. Today I have listed several of the materials and supplies that many homeschool families have in their homes. This is by no means an exhaustive list and notice that I have completely neglected to mention curriculums, workbooks, and lesson plans, only because they do not matter one iota in the greater scheme of things, and the main ingredients listed provide the firm foundation upon which everything else rests.
–# 1 Supply) One of the first components of any HS program (and most homes with one or more children in it) is SPACE. More than anything else, children need room to spread out, spend time, and play to their heart’s content. Contrary to popular belief, healthy children do NOT happily sit in one place with their hands folded in classrooms drinking up knowledge. They move around pounding the furniture, fiddling with toys, and making noise. Space can be defined as a general room where there is minimum furniture and maximum floor space, nooks and alcoves that are devoted exclusively to children with tables, chairs, and pillows, or simply an entire house where no one is forbidden to get dirty, make messes, or drag things around for whatever reason makes sense at the moment, at any time.
–#2 Supply) BOOKS. In my humble opinion, books are probably the most important items anyone can have in their house beside food and water. Books may mean the difference between education and ignorance in most subjects nowadays, and even if a child (particularly a boy) does not seem interested in them at first, the very fact that they are valued and integral parts of the household will speak volumes for the future days when a child becomes detail oriented and begins to require better information about various subjects. Along with books comes the mandate that parents read regularly to their children from Day 1 (of course), because this simple act alone develops vocabulary, imagination, attention span, listening and visual comprehension skills along with a whole host of other things (including general knowledge and even mathematics), so it is a valuable/important use of time. The value of reading cannot be overestimated in any education, and the majority of homeschoolers rely on the library and personal book collections to do the bulk of their teaching for them.
–#3 Supply) PAPER and WRITING TOOLS. Paper and writing utensils are almost as important in the homeschool setting as venerated reading materials. It doesn’t matter what type of paper it is or what kind of implement gets used (though markers and smooth mediums such as pastels, paints, etc. offer very little resistance on paper for young children and are very easy to use). Most children do NOT use paper for what we would expect or want them to use it for, btw ( meaning highly complex poems, stories, or math problems, LOL), but most use it for drawing pictures or making the occasional sentence or phrase to complement what they have created. Certain masterpieces may appear on the refrigerator as valued works of art, but most end up on a pile on the floor or on the table somewhere, finished and forgotten. Occasionally a kid will become an avid writer or artist while still young, but most homeschooled youngsters who have been allowed to follow their own inclinations do not become highly productive on their own or focus their energies to that extent in the beginning. I have noticed in kids that art and writing seem mainly to be a function of the moment with the sole purpose of supplementing the theme of play, and when those themes have been played out at a later age, the desire for communication in earnest takes over and the available materials get used in a more efficient way. A practical paper supply that we have found in our house consists of old computer sheets that are still serrated on the sides and that have to be torn apart piece by piece. The kids found this to be a bit of a pain (pulling it apart over and over again), but they soon realized that they could unfold several sheets at once and make long, complicated murals of fight scenes, space battles, and such. See? Necessity absolutely is the mother of invention:-).
–#4 Supply) BLOCKS and BUILDING SETS. Different types of blocks and building sets are imperative to have around the homeschool house, simply because they are such open-ended objects and offer so many possibilities for imaginative play. My crazy boys make towers, every type of structure known to man, weapons, living things, monsters, characters, shapes—- and I have seen girls use blocks in wonderful ways too, creating houses, villages, towns, and even shrines for imaginary creatures. There are umpteen building sets available in the educational universe today and unfortunately many of them are ridiculously expensive:(. The best and most basic toys we have found so far have been wooden blocks of various sizes (found at second-hand toystores and yard sales), legos and megablocks (found at yard sales, as hand-me-down toys, or set by set on holidays and special occasions), tinker toys (old sets we had when we were young and yard sales), and several assorted building sets that are not well known but were picked up in various spots like yard sales and given as Christmas gifts. It is wonderful to know that it is not even necessary to spend money on building materials when it comes right down to it if you can be creative. We have had some of our best fun with leftover pvc piping, scrap wood which was cut into small pieces and sanded down, and smooth branch logs which were cut into various thicknesses to build and stack with. Remember that one cheap toy that requires a person to come up with a novel solution is better than 100 expensive, battery operated building machines that serve no purpose other than to be built and passively observed.
–#5 Supply) The last ‘Home Ingredient’? ACTION FIGURES. Now, when I say ‘action figures’, I don’t necessarily mean the superheroes and movie characters that are standard issue Wal-mart fare (though there is nothing wrong with those if children like them), but the important figures to any child are dolls, characters, animals, monsters, and any other object allowing him/her to set up pretend scenarios of impersonation and elaborate character displays. In our house we keep buckets of knights with their horses, dragons, and a wizard or two, zillions of large and small stuffed animals (especially beloved by my cuddle-happy 8 yr. old), other figures of people—action or otherwise—and a collection of animals having to do with farm, ranch, wildlife, and zoo. In addition to action figures it must be said that there is an elaborate costume box stuffed to the rim upstairs that gets used on various occasions. Old halloween costumes, sheets, clothes, hats, scarves, and masks get stuffed into it on a regular basis, and all props are used for spur-of-the-moment games and in-depth theatre projects.
This is just an overview of the types of things that one normally finds in a homeschool or child-centered household (despite those that are added, taken away, or never used to begin with:)). Since it is next to impossible for anyone to ever anticipate the needs and interests of a child in these situations, it is best just to keep a well-stocked house with a myriad of resources available at all times should anyone need them or find them necessary to use as a stepping stone to more important things in the future. The environment in a Homeschool house is 80% of the child’s success, and while materials in a home are important, the attitude of the parents is paramount to dictating how and when those items will be used, and what, if anything, will be learned by them (in another post:)).
Catch you on the FS,
Anonymom:)

Perfect Quotes

One of my favorite things to do (when I am not working, teaching, cooking, gardening, shoveling, feeding farm animals, doing laundry, making beds, washing dishes, and cleaning) is to collect quotes. Since I was young I have always been fascinated by these tiny phrases, probably because they were almost always found in a historical context and written by “ancient” famous people. Reading through quotes on any subject always made me think that despite the ravages of time and the checkered history of the human race, there were certain truths that remain as valid today as they were when they were first spoken hundreds and thousands of years ago. In other words, we haven’t changed much despite the advancements and technological progress that we have made, and wisdom can still be found in dusty old volumes of ‘Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations’.
An exceptionally good English teacher in high school years ago once told our class that ‘Times may change but people never will’. Of course, the things that this man taught ignored the curriculum entirely 9/10ths of the time, but they resulted in a deeper understanding of what was important in life, and I will always be grateful to him for that. The ‘Times’ quote was one of his most important pearls of wisdom.
I compiled a few nice quotes on education that I have collected over the years, and I am listing them below for fun. The most wonderful thing about these expressions is that they get to the heart of what education really means and it’s original purpose in expanding and fulfilling human potential. The most important skills we learn are those that have nothing to do with study habits, decoding, grammatical sentence structure, and arithmetic. We have been raised to believe that the key to success is the intimate knowledge of unrelated factual tidbits, but it remains true that a person could be highly educated without knowing any of these things, so the current definition of education needs to be revised.
What education really is and what the bureaucracies and governments want it to be are two different things. At this time we need to quit assuming that workbooks, tests, and repetitive drills can in any way replace the mental and spiritual nourishment of a young child, and create wisdom where none existed and conditions never fostered it to begin with. We are facing a future where wisdom, so heavily valued in the past, will be vitally necessary again in order to circumvent challenges that lie ahead. It has never been so important to raise kids with good heads on their shoulders, in other words. The time to get started is now.
- I am not young enough to know everything—J.M.Barrie
-I have never let my schooling interfere with my education—Mark Twain
-I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught—Sir Winston Churchill
-A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.—Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain
-Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten—B.F. Skinner
-Valuable achievement can sprout from human society only when it is sufficiently loosened to make possible the free development of an individual’s abilities—Albert Einstein
-Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught—Oscar Wilde
-You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.—Galileo Galilei

Goodbye and Good Luck,
Anonymom:)

First Post

I decided to sit down and start a blog today because I have 3 children who are homeschooled and there are important things that need to be said about education nowadays. In a twist that may seem ironic, I not only homeschool my kids using liberal methods, but I am also a certified teacher who tutors kids in the local school district with disciplinary problems and chronic health issues. Years before I had children I taught 5th grade at a local public school, but at this point I tutor mainly high school and middle school kids, and am so busy most of the time that I have a regular, full-time schedule from student to student during the year.
Many people who know me have inquired as to why I work for an organization like the public school when I clearly embrace homeschooling in it’s most radical form in my ‘alter ego’. They would like to know why I participate in the ‘dumbing down’ of our kids in the nation’s federal education program when I am clearly against the indoctrination of children in almost any form, and their methods are so clearly the antithesis of everything I believe in. The answer to these questions are simple and complex at the same time and it will take months for me to answer them completely, but the most immediate reason is strictly practical. I am a stay-at-home mom the majority of the time whose husband does not make the kind of salary that enables me to throw caution to the wind and forget about gainful employment entirely, so I tutor because it helps me to earn money and map my schedule around my own kids’ needs. In addition to this, the children I work with (difficult as they are) are a wonderful inspiration to me and expose a side of education that is often pathologically hidden from those who practice the greatest and most time-honored sport in our society, fence jumping.
I have seen countless unusual situations in my 15 years of teaching in the classroom, in the homes of poor and disadvantaged children, and with my own, homeschooled children. Over the last couple of years interesting patterns have emerged among people I have worked with from rearing children to conform to public school expectations, to the reinforcement of behavior using fear and assorted cocktail medications, to the final subjugation of our kids following years of conditioning designed to fit them neatly into a society that they were groomed to join from the beginning.
I am not here to say that there is anything more totalitarian about this society than those that existed in the past, and I cannot claim that the knowledge we gain will do anything to protect us in the future. The fact remains, however, that while mankind has been at war with itself since the beginning of time, this is the very first moment that we have the ability to actually threaten the biological stability of the planet. We have been gleefully killing each other for centuries, but we have never yet been wholly capable of wiping out existence as we know it. Therefore, it seems eminently logical to find alternatives to doing things at this point, and to raise children who will not only break the bonds of ineptitude with original new solutions, but who will also have the courage to see those innovations through and follow them to their logical conclusions despite ridicule and opposition.
This blog is going to be covering countless issues relating to children, homeschooling, and general educational theory, but it will also be about the lighter side of raising and working with kids, because without the joy of discovery, learning, and growth in a free environment, the challenges that ‘educating differently’ present on a daily basis would hardly be worth the effort for most of us, and would certainly never benefit the children we love so dearly.
The fact is, experience in life forces us to realize that experts are few and far between if they exist at all, and the only way to educate children is to develop new ideas and place ourselves squarely in the path of that which we do not understand, until we understand it. We cannot ask children to undertake tasks that we are not willing to try ourselves, so if nothing I ever write here is of significance to anyone else, at least it is reinforcement for the road I have chosen and the means of pushing my own parameters in order to raise healthier children.
So, shall we begin? I look forward to blazing new paths and challenging conventional stereotypes whatever they may be. Anything and everything is possible on the subject of children.
Anonymom:)