Attention Summer Mom-Schoolers!!

How are you doing on reading the Leadership Education book? The discussion is scheduled for this Saturday July 11 at 8 am Mountain.

I had planned on doing this from vacation but am running into some scheduling problems. My husband is DYING to do a mountain bike race that morning, so we may or may not be in cell phone range that morning. Also the other Jessica (www.balancingeverything.com) has a surprise family thing that day. So I want to take votes on what to do:

1– Just send Barry to do his race without a cheering section and keep the discussion as scheduled.

2– Reschedule the discussion to 8 or 9 pm Mountain time that evening (which would be Sunday morning for April in Turkey, so that worries me with getting ready for church and everything).

3– Push our schedule back and tack on another Saturday in September so it would look like this:
August 1– Leadership Education: the Phases of Learning by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
August 22– The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
September 12– Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire by Rafe Esquith
September something– The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

4– or push our schedule back and just take out Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire so the schedule would look like this:
July 11– vacation
August 1– Leadership Education: the Phases of Learning by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
August 22– The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
September 12– The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

What think ye?

seeing what happens

The first Summer Mom School discussion podcast is posted over at  the Summer Mom School blog for those of you interested.  It was great to meet and chat with Carol and KateHow Children Learn was a book I loved revisiting.

Jonah has been wanting to make an invention for quite some time.  After rummaging through the garage and basement he knew just what he wanted to make.

inventing

The kids rigged up a pulley off the deck down to the lawn, complete with a bell to ring when things were ready to come down.  Then one day the whole contraption mysteriously disappeared.  I figured they were just ready for something new, but then I noticed a big scrape on Brenna’s shoulder blade.  “What happened there?” I asked.

“Um,” she said sheepishly, “I was standing in the pulley bucket and pulling myself up with the rope.  Then I got so high I didn’t know what to do.  I was  totally stuck.  I held on for a long time, then the bucket tipped backward and I still held on, but finally my arms gave out so I went crashing down on the rocks.”

“Oh, so is that why you guys took the pulley down?”

“Yeah, it was just too tempting!”

I guess it was a first hand experiment in  gravity and that sometimes self control entails getting the temptation totally out of sight.