By Shannon on Tuesday, October 23, 2007Filed Under: Homeschooling
If you are part of a homeschooling family and have a knack for graphic design, you’ll want to enter the Homeschooling Award Logo Design Contest over at Lifelearning.org. The winner will get $100 (and there might be even more prizes) and their design will be displayed on blogs that are nominated and/or win the 2008 [...]
By Shannon on Thursday, October 18, 2007Filed Under: Homeschooling
Check out my guest blog post at Super Smart Gaming to find out why we don’t limit screen time in our home.
By Shannon on Wednesday, October 17, 2007Filed Under: My Son, Parenting
This afternoon my son went to a friend’s house to play.
Nothing unusual, right? He’s been to playdates before. He’s been without me before. But this time was a little different. It was the first time he’d gone to play with someone whose family I did not know really, really well.
I knew them of [...]
By Shannon on Tuesday, October 9, 2007Filed Under: Blogging Rocks!, Link Love
I’ve recently discovered CLIQ, a new site that allows you to share traffic and readers with like-minded bloggers. Sign up, start or join a CLIQ, and the blogs in your CLIQ will share links to members’ posts via the CLIQ Widget. They also offer reporting tools so you can see who in your CLIQ has [...]
By Shannon on Monday, October 1, 2007Filed Under: Blogging Rocks!, Thriving
This blog has been sorely neglected lately. Here’s an update on what’s been keeping me busy:
Twitter. At first I did not see the benefit of Twitter, but I’m now addicted to those updates in my browser sidebar. It’s great to follow friends and people you admire professionally, and it’s also become a nice little source [...]