Read Chapters Online

Follow these links to read the chapters online.

• Chapter 1: Do You Know Where Your Children Are? I awoke to the sounds of my two children, Melissa, 8 and Keith, 6, arguing...
• Chapter 2: A Growing Problem "Hey kids, listen to this." Melissa and Keith stopped throwing macaroni at each other...
• Chapter 3: The Cardboard Box Theory John and the kids were in the living room engrossed in...
• Chapter 4: Pulling It All Together I was cleaning up from a centripetal force experiment gone bad, when...
• Chapter 5: A Banner Day At a meeting of local homeschoolers, I told one mom...
• Chapter 6: Quit Eyeballin' Me I finally admitted to myself I wasn't going to be...
• Chapter 7: Something Screwy's Going On "Look, there's more down here," I said as I...
• Chapter 8: Rools of the Rode "I'm not gonna talk to him, you talk to him...
• Chapter 9: Keep It Moving We did a lot of reading aloud in our family...
• Chapter 10: Ch-Ch-Ch-Cheetah As soon as I saw John get out of the car, I was out the door...
• Chapter 11: I Want Candy One year, a few days after Halloween, I found my kids...
• Chapter 12: Between a Rock and a Hard Place "Mom, I can't find my...
• Chapter 13: Letter Writing Campaign Melissa stuck her head in the front door and yelled...
• Chapter 14: Toast All I wanted was a simple piece of toast...
• Chapter 15: Mother Nature One day while I was in Keith's room looking for my blender...
• Chapter 16: A Classic Conversation Keith and I sat at opposite ends of the table...
• Chapter 17: Don't Fence Me In Carrying a pile of laundry stacked up to my...
• Chapter 18: Life in the Third Dimension "Check this out Mom." Keith showed me a ...
• Chapter 19: Definitely Crazy Dear Journal, My parents are so embarrassing sometimes...
• Chapter 20: Why Don't You Call Me Sometime? "Debbie, can you go to the new office tomorrow? The phone man is coming...
• Chapter 21: Rewriting History "The map says turn here," I said...
• Chapter 22: Seeing All The Options One night at dinner, I was really feeling depressed as I looked around...

The pdf version also includes an appendix which has interviews from all four of us where we explain a bit more seriously our educational philosophy and what homeschooling was like for us.