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Do School Systems Encourage Bad Parenting Behavior?

November 9, 2010

Update note: Due to neutle’s comment below (see comments) I realized that I didn’t title this post correctly. It was, Does Public School Encourage Bad Parenting Behavior?, although technically I’ve seen the same sort of behavior I discuss below happen with families in various school systems. Charter, public, private and so on – basically I’ve [...]

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The Public School Experience

November 8, 2010

Before I get too into the public school series, I figured it’d be useful to share my school background, so you know where I’m coming from. EARLY SCHOOL: I started preschool at age three. Everyone thought I was smart because I talked a lot and was outgoing. Plus, I could read well by age three [...]

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Raise Happy & Knowledgeable Kids Without Public School

November 5, 2010

Public schools aren’t ever far in the back of my mind, but lately, they’ve taken over my brain, yes, even before green issues. That said, we’re going to be looking at some school issues over the next few weeks or so. I know this is a green blog, so sure, I’ll still be posting about [...]

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Tests & No Child Left Behind Lack Real Life Application

October 20, 2010

Did you come here from Why doesn’t your son go to a real school? – if not you may want to read that. Consider real life: How often, at work or just in normal conversations with others are you given test experiences. Most of the time you’re not. Your boss doesn’t say, “What will you [...]

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Help Your Child Explore His World

July 16, 2010

I very rarely buy books that aren’t specifically eco-friendly. But a few months ago I became a wee bit mesmerized with a book I saw at Powell’s and bought it – How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith. Since this is not a green book in particular, I’m [...]

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A word about stuff and how darn hypocritical I may seem

June 25, 2010

I’m always saying, “BUY LESS STUFF!” Why am I always saying this? Because I’m a huge Buy Nothing Day advocate; and it would look pretty lame for me to be like, “Hey, the rest of the year buy away!“ Because having a lot of stuff is not eco-friendly. Because too much stuff is not very [...]

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Do you let your five-year-old go to the park alone?

June 24, 2010

In PDX we have a monthly parenting magazine; Metro Parent. It usually has good articles but one piece in particular captured and has held my attention since April – Free-Range Parenting: Letting Go So Kids Can Grow – read it here (flip to page 24). The gist of the piece was that kids can go [...]

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Make recycling easier for your kids & reluctant adults

June 21, 2010

Recycling should be a family affair but often recycling can seem very complicated to little kids. Take it from me; at age five Cedar “recycled” some of our silicone homemade popsicle molds claiming, “They looked recyclable!“ Reluctant adults in your home may actually not get recycling or they may be using their lack of know-how [...]

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Happy first day of summer – fun summer activities

June 21, 2010

Being that it’s officially summer it’s time to get down to business. And by business I mean summer fun. Here are some super fun nature minded and eco-friendly summer ideas for green kids. Get outside!!!! I’m going to say this until you’re sick of me saying it, but until the kids I see are fit [...]

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Grow a nature loving family

June 18, 2010

This summer and for the rest of the year I hope one major goal you have is to get your family outside. Kids especially spend a depressingly large amount of time indoors nowadays and that’s unacceptable. Granted, it’s easy to keep on doing what you’re doing. Inside is easy. You’ve got books, video games, less [...]