Read the chapters online. If you have a laptop, you don’t even have to stop to go to the bathroom!
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.
