Survey: Homeschoolers new political force It makes sense that homeschooling turns out better students … after all, consider it in these terms: does a student who can afford a private tutor fare better academically than a kid in a crowded classroom? But what major critics of homeschooling argue is that the kids don’t end up […]
Reading problems in children linked to TV Kids who watch a lot of TV have a harder time learning to read. That’s the upshot of a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. This should be self-evident, but what the heck. Every nagging reminder helps. The report doesn’t say TV is all bad, though, and […]
First Visit to the Midwives for Little Sofia or Little Gabriel This afternoon Kristen, David and I went up to Dartmouth-Hitchcock to for Kristen’s first prenatal checkup. We visited with one of the midwives and she gave us our due date – May 22 – just as Kristen had calculated. The new baby is about […]