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to meeting an older woman who has a son the same age as ours and is also planning to homeschool with the rough curriculum I have in mind. Talking to her the past couple of weeks has been… Inspir...

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DH said this yesterday and it’s pure gold. Yes I have heard it before - I am quite familiar with the idea that our authoritarian socialist communist power structure is fist imprinted through the ...

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Well, you know. DHs gma and aunt specifically invited us to their big family dinner. They said that they miss us. Which is a little funny/ ironic bc these things have so many people at them ther...

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J(my mother) sent me an email yesterday morning. I’m a far cry from the reactionary emotional guilt/shame/do something response that I was so prone to for all of my life. I realize that I was tha...

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The dream I had last night was… Well I’m not sure what to call it. I was me, although my stomach was flat and very not pregnant as I am now. The gist of the first scene (or dream, I guess) is qu...

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DH is the handyman of handymen. He replaced ALL the shoddy old plumbing in our house with 3/4” copper for under $200. Even with today’s hyperinflated costs. He’s getting ready to install a new ta...

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DH and I talked about standards and how to know when they’re irrational, or rational. It was a pretty good talk. I related how my dad destroyed my brother’s social life, claiming that no one was ...

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“The medical profession has accomplished much. It will accomplish more in the future. It will become a more rounded profession. The members of our profession who have the clearest vision are alre...

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The mathematics of dollar cost averaging (DCC) continues to amaze me. So, the price is down- which means people are selling their assets. I wish it were so, but it is. Mostly because I really wan...

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This lecture begins with an overview of methods for the 9-and-a-half or 10 year old through puberty, or around age 14. Steiner again emphasizes the importance of relationships in presenting these...

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Boundaries, I have without exception experienced, are useful only as an internal asshole radar system. It’s fine (I guess) to “have” boundaries- but no one who you would actually need to have the...

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This lecture is dedicated to a rough outline of methodology to accomplish the objectives defined in the previous lectures. Namely, this lecture is about the how in bringing experiences to childre...

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“It is essential that you have some understanding of the real essence of every subject that you teach, so that you do not use things in your teaching that are remote from life itself. Everything ...

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Walked to the library today with W, and it was a fun trip. It is not air conditioned, which was disappointing, but we spent a good 2 hours there anyways. Signed up for a card and checked out a bu...

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“People who cannot endure being clumsy and doing things stupidly and imperfectly at first never really will be able to do them perfectly in the end out of their own inner self.” Childhood is noth...

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I don’t get this type of behavior. I really don’t. It’s just that, if you bully someone into doing what you want, you know in your bones always and forever that nothing between you is real. It’s...

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General Principles of Waldorf Education Steiner spends quite a lot of this lecture describing in strictly Anthroposophical terms the process of child development. It is a difficult and unclarifyi...

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‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’ ~Friedrich Nietzsche It is with this idea in mind that I aim to review Steiner’s lectures on education. It is to fulfill my own need for cl...

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When you’re having fun. I can’t believe I’ve already entered the third trimester. This pregnancy is moving by so quickly, it seems. It’s odd that I barely notice that I’m pregnant, but I think ab...

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Pg 18 Quote; ” But is is what you are that matters: if you are good this goodness will appear in your gestures; and if you are bad-tempered this also will appear in your gestures- in short, every...

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[Intro] Pg 4 Quote; “Those who are truly the worst theorists are the least practical in life. A bank today is entirely composed of thoughts arising from theories. There is nothing practical in i...

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Of things I’d like to write and so little time to do it. I’ve been mulling over a philosophical analysis of Steiner’s educational lectures. I think I will do that. Anthroposophy is a mystical wo...

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Is the cure to mental, emotional, psychological illness a moral assessment of the people in our lives? Does our inner experience, feeling life, or our true self rely fundamentally on moral truth,...

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Means, in essence, the right to ostracize. It really boggles my mind that by far the most common complaint I have read from parents is the direct result of forced association for their children. ...

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This will be a quick entry because it’s DH’s birthday(woo!) and I’m running him lunch in an hour. But the thought that struck me this last couple of days- since my mother has for the past 3 years...

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