This is my family’s fourth year of homeschooling, and in those four years we have used several different English writing and grammar curricula (such as Bob Jones, Shurley Grammar, IEW, Instructional Fair Diagramming, Write Source, and various grammar workbooks). All of these curricula have their strong points, and we didn’t necessarily switch specifically because of [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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