Blogs about: Favorite Daughter

Doc Finds Name That Fits School Sock Puppets "Laden" With Logic Disorders — 46 comments

JJ wrote 1 week ago: Great parody of Greg Laden’s anti-homeschool piousness passing as critical thought, over at Al … more »

Tags: "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Academics, Accountability, Advocacy, Bullying and control, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists

Happy Birthday Harper Lee, Boss Boost to Barack Obama — 1 comment

JJ wrote 1 week ago: Frisky cock of the snook to Don at the Gookins for the latter, and to Favorite Daughter for the form … more »

Tags: "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Advocacy, Arts, Barack Obama, Books and Movies, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Culture, Ethics and Philosophy

Hands Off the Hands-On in School Math?? — 2 comments

JJ wrote 1 week ago: Okay, I’m not explaining, just reporting this: Dr. Kaminski and her colleagues Vladimir M. Sl … more »

Tags: "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", China, Cognitive Psychology, Colleges and Universities, Cynical Stuff, Early Childhood Issues, Education, Experimental, Homeschooling

Urging New Unschooler to "Go for the Gold" — 9 comments

JJ wrote 1 month ago: JJ posts this comment for our plucky friend Colleen at The New Unschooler today: Not to criticize or … more »

Tags: unschooling, Power of Story, Learning, Homeschooling, Discipline-behavior, Family Values, Ethics and Philosophy, Thinking Parents, Cognitive Psychology

Religion and Science: Revelation, Disability and Logical Expression — 9 comments

JJ wrote 1 month ago: Can you hear that drumbeat? — religion is science, and science is religion. Schooling and educ … more »

Tags: Academics, Advocacy, belief in gods, Bullying and control, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Culture, Cynical Stuff, Dominionists

Favorite Daughter Comes Out of the Closet — 7 comments

JJ wrote 1 month ago: . . .the math disability closet, that is, with her new blog diary posted direct from her college hon … more »

Tags: "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Academics, Arts, change, Cognitive Psychology, Colleges and Universities, Creative Class, Early Childhood Issues, Graduation

From a Comment I Left at Sandra Dodd's Today — 1 comment

JJ wrote 1 month ago: “. . .Always-unschooled Favorite Daughter turned 18 this week and her favorite family gifts we … more »

Tags: School versus Education, unschooling, Power of Story, Education, Learning, Homeschooling, "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Books, Intellectual and Academic Freedom

My Unschoolers Absorbed in "John Adams" -- Abigail Too! — 7 comments

JJ wrote 1 month ago: And they’re not alone, it seems. See some cool stuff at the official site too, including vid … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, unschooling, Power of Story, Learning, Homeschooling, Liberties and Rights, Family Values, Separation of Church and State--the First Amendment, Feminism

St. Patrick's Day Fun As Unsaintly Unschoolers

JJ wrote 1 month ago: . . .is for us even better this weekend than last year’s party, even more about community and … more »

Tags: unschooling, Power of Story, Education, Learning, Family Values, Culture, Thinking and Feeling, identity, Holidays

What Was That Song? Oh, Right: "Hollywood Isn't America" — 22 comments

JJ wrote 2 months ago: If anyone was wondering, the new kiss-off “sorry, no consolation prize for you,” song on … more »

Tags: Accountability, Bullying and control, change, constitution, Culture, Cynical Stuff, Dominionists, Education, From the Mouths of Babes

Deja New — 5 comments

JJ wrote 2 months ago: Favorite Daughter and I have coined the term “deja new” as the functional opposite of de … more »

Tags: Power of Story, Culture, From the Mouths of Babes, Thinking and Feeling, What's in a name?, change, Cynical Stuff, language, Humor

Feminist Unschoolers to "Bitch": We're Here, Not Queer — 57 comments

JJ wrote 2 months ago: BITCH Magazine spent several months putting together a feature article for which Favorite Daughter a … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, Public Communication, School versus Education, unschooling, Power of Story, Education, Homeschooling, Liberties and Rights, Family Values

History of Identity: Our Insecurities and Need to Belong — 9 comments

JJ wrote 3 months ago: (from discussion at Unity-n-Diversity about homeschooling identity, as individuals and competing gro … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, Public Communication, School versus Education, unschooling, Power of Story, Education, Learning, Homeschooling, Discipline-behavior

Parental Rights, Responsible Parenting of Sex and Potential Parenthood — 37 comments

JJ wrote 3 months ago: This time it’s not about purity balls or abstinence rings. It’s about what happens when … more »

Tags: "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Accountability, Blog for Choice, Bullying and control, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Education, Environment, Ethics and Philosophy

Unschool to College Is Un-Homeschooling Too -- Let's Call It Real Education — 21 comments

JJ wrote 3 months ago: There is a big email list called “homeschool2 college.” It is exhausting just to read! … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, School versus Education, unschooling, Power of Story, Standardized Testing, Education, Learning, Homeschooling, Colleges and Universities

Dandy Review for Favorite Daughter's Opening Night — 1 comment

JJ wrote 3 months ago: The JJ in this story btw, is no relation, thanks for asking! I guess since it’s the role for … more »

Tags: unschooling, Power of Story, Homeschooling, Intellectual and Academic Freedom, Thinking Parents, Creative Class, identity, What's in a name?, Music

Favorite Daughter Writes Again! (Sam Already Found it) — 2 comments

JJ wrote 4 months ago: And boy oh boy, is she clearly NOT a schooled and ruled, rebellious little robot. . . “I actua … more »

Tags: Academics, Accountability, Arts, Books and Movies, Bullying and control, Civil Rights, Colleges and Universities, Creative Class, Culture

Favorite Daughter Officially Finishes Home Education — 7 comments

JJ wrote 5 months ago: and it was anticlimactic, as external milestones should be, I guess. Back in school administrator li … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, unschooling, Power of Story, Education, Learning, Homeschooling, Intellectual and Academic Freedom, Thinking Parents, Law & Politics

Any Price Too High for "Higher" Education? — 1 comment

JJ wrote 5 months ago: Favorite Daughter wrote this about what some young folks are willing to do, to pay their college tui … more »

Tags: Institutions and Individuals, School versus Education, Power of Story, Standardized Testing, Education, Discipline-behavior, Colleges and Universities, Liberties and Rights, Intellectual and Academic Freedom


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