Chalk

"Children need what we rarely give them in school - time for messing about." -John Holt

Freaks and Fancies

 The boys and I had just cleaned up the yard, trimmed the bushes and mowed the lawn. Aside from the patches of struggling grass, things were looking pretty spiffy. But then I walked outside to see

Chickens

 

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

-Dennis Waitley

Dissecting Frogs

These kids are grossly obsessed with cutting things open to see what's inside..and by "things" I mean creatures. Jared, 11, has been doing this from a very young age. When he was 8 I walked into the backyard to find him dismembering a lizard. At first, I was horrified, worried that we had a young Jeffery Dahmer on our hands,

Help Them Explore

“We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by