Autonomous Parenting Vol. 1 Iss. 1
February 2007 
 Autonomous Parenting Vol. 1, Iss. 1
 au•to•no•my -- independent, self-governing, able to undertake activities without permission from a controlling body
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 Factors in College Choice
 By Donald Asher

[Author of Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed,Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different and special guest speaker at numerous home school conferences.]

Everything important in my family's life took place at the kitchen table. This table was the focal point of my intellectual and social life at the time. It never occurred to me that this was an odd family trait; I assumed everyone lived like us. When I was in high school, everyone in my family was in school. My mother and stepfather were in college, and my brothers and I were all in high school. It was an exciting home. Every day we would all come home from class and tell what we had learned or, more accurately, argue about what we had learned. These arguments took place around that kitchen table.

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 What About Us? Renewing Your Marriage
 by Erin Chianese

Homeschooling is so natural that it becomes a 24-hour job. Every opportunity can be educational and much parental time is taken up with these moments of learning with our kids. Homeschooling definitely brings families closer together. But often in our busy homes, marriage is the first thing to be put on hold and the last to get attention.

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 Midlife Crisis Begins in Kindergarten . . . with labels such as ADD, ADHD, slow, dyslexic, learning disabled, just average, and even gifted!
 by LearningSuccess(tm) Coaches Mariaemma Willis, M.S. Special Education and Victoria Kindle Hodson, M.A. Psychology

Did you know that midlife crisis begins in kindergarten? Yes, it’s true! It is in kindergarten (and sometimes in preschool!) that our society begins the process of teaching children that they are not smart enough, not quick enough, not working to potential, not high enough on the bell curve, not as good as the next guy...just plain not measuring up!

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 Michele's Musings: Squelching Sibling Rivalry
 by Michele Hastings

The zit on your nose is so big it’d look like someone threw a pie in your face if you popped it!" chuckled Tymon to his younger brother. (Asher has white heads but rarely gets actual pimples, so this was just intended to rile him.) Attempting to ignore him, Asher continued opening the can of tuna he’d hauled out of the cupboard for lunch. Refusing to be ignored, Ty continued to pester his little brother -- an all-too-typical event these days. WHAM! Unwilling to take any more verbal taunting Asher slammed into Tymon, knocking him into the kitchen hutch.

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 Standardized Testing: Is It Compatible With Computer Learning?
  by Lawrence B. Bangs

We have entered a new millennium. It is full of promise, but how do we keep the promise? We are faced with two concepts: Standards and computer-assisted instruction. As we attempt to incorporate each into schools, teachers, administrators and parents must ask, "Are they compatible?" This question will have different answers in different states and for different subjects. We might consider the study of mathematics in Massachusetts or history in New Jersey and reach very contradictory conclusions. However, as we work with computers and standards some general guidelines emerge. Since history poses less of a threat to most people than mathematics, let us choose for discussion the teaching of history, and since we in New England believe history begins in Massachusetts, let us consider the problem of using the computer to teach history in Massachusetts.

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Sincerely,

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