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	Homegrown Summer Camp Ours is a small-scale, homegrown, child-centered creation of the families of the four campers themselves.
	Creation Stories Our bedroom is littered with stacks of lined paper, wire-bound edges curling across the top. Many of them say, "To: Mom", and each is emblazoned with "Caila" along the bottom corner.
	Asset-Focused Parenting Here are just a few ways you can continue to help your children's forward movement so that they can develop relationships of trust with their own minds.
	Hatch a Natural Writer Here are some fun and helpful tips and ideas to encourage and develop your child's love for writing throughout their childhood.
	Climb, Swing & Snuggle: Reading Readiness Involves the Whole Body Allowing reading to develop naturally or teaching it later tends to create eager, lifelong readers. In contrast, teaching children to read early is often stressful.
	Inspired Education Educational options can be daunting. Here, Lindsay Evans helps break them down.
	Four Part Harmony: The Maestro Mom Body, Mind, Heart, Soul: When they all come together harmony happens.
	Clipboard Adventuring Enjoy these great homeschool projects and ideas for easy documentation from author of "Free Range Learning," Laura Grace Weldon.
	Homeschooling Can Help Every Parent All parents can take an active part in their children's education and not feel left out of the fun.
	Fair Feathered Friends You can teach children facts or you can teach them ways of learning. Here are some ways you can spark your child's interest in science through birdwatching.
	10 Tips for Developing a Love for Literature Creating a love for reading takes effort. Here's how to help your children run to the bookshelf in anticipation of their next adventure.
	Ode to the One-Room Schoolhouse As public schools observe the growth of homeschooling and other options, new ways of educating are seeping into mainstream schools.
	Learning While We Cook: How Preparing Meals Educates Children As they snip, read, and converse with us, our kids are learning physical, mental, and social skills. Here’s how cooking can be educational for them.
	Unschooling Unschooling is a popular method of homeschooling, a legal and fast-growing trend in many countries in the world. Get the scoop in this telling article.
	The Circumference of O When the plan to have Olivia spend a year in a mainstream French classroom got derailed, we found ourselves creators of a mash-up curriculum, neither French- nor California-branded.
	The Satisfied Learner: How Families Homeschool Their Teens Socially and intellectually satisfying, homeschooling is an extremely viable option--for both parent and child.
	12 Steps To Conflict Resolution Make friends. Treat the bully as a friend instead of an enemy.
	For the Love of Words We grew up chanting nursery rhymes, hand slaps, jump-rope ditties. We punned, learning early that the bun is the lowest form of wheat, and the limerick the lowest form of verse.
	Mothering Radio: Greening Education In this episode, Mothering Radio looks at greening our schools. Julie Grant interviews Jeremy Adam Smith who wrote "Greening Education," in Mothering's July-August '10 issue.
	Howling Homeschoolers in the North Woods: Fun, Friends, and Family at Winter Camp Dogsledding, finding the biggest icicle, and howling like a wolf are not your typical classroom activities.
	Secrets of Montessori My sister had received an extraordinary education at a Montessori school from 1974 through 1980; however, I wasn't sure it would be right for my daughter.
	How Jerome Learned to Read: Fostering Children's Unique Intelligence Parents and schools are meant to serve the gifts our children bring, to name them, bless them, help aim them.
	No Time for Teaching: Spontaneous Learning at Home The most effective way for children to learn is the natural relationship between a mom and child.
	Mothering's Guide to Back to School Mothering's Back to School Guide provides simple and fun ways to keep your whole family healthy and happy throughout the school year.
	Roll Call: Get Involved in Your Child's School You can use the following seven-step plan as a starting point for improving your involvement in your children's schools and for improving their education in the process.

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