Classical Jenn

Me reading about Odysseus's men dying horribly in the prime of their lives: meh

Me reading about Odysseus's dog dying of old age: uncontrollable sobbing

Today is sunny and 70°, so naturally we're going to spend it at the pond admiring the new babies. Math will still be there tomorrow.

Is the hell in the room with us?

If you want to post on a public forum and only hear from people who agree with you, may I suggest the conservative subreddit?

I know this isn't popular around here, but I homeschooled my autistic daughter from K-8. She's in the public high school now and gets straight As, is conversational in Norwegian and Spanish, plays flute, piccolo, and tenor sax, and has tons of friends.

A Cattle Dog laying on a couch with her head on a flowered blanket

So much chaos in such a deceptively adorable package

Video games, drugs, sex, a big house--these things won't make you happy. What you need to do is read sad poetry by alcoholics

The pay is crap, but you could look into Appen.

A large, empty gymnastics facility.

We came for the weekly open gym for #homeschoolers today, and because nobody else showed up, my seven-year-old gets this entire set up to herself for an hour and a half. If you're a parent to a child with ADHD, this is the dream. 😆

Mosh (Dirty Version) by Eminem | Eminem YouTube video by EminemMusic

We could use an updated version of this one

A girl walking in the distance on a snowy trail.

Fool's spring has arrived in Minnesota so my little birder is out pishing, trying to lure out the birds. So far all she's done is irritate the chickadees, but she's not giving up.

#homeschool

Note to self: Even if you're talking about dogs, don't write "naughty" and "anal" in the same post.

An Australian Cattle Dog sitting on a chenille couch, head hanging in shame.

This naughty girl became so enraged at the squirrel at the bird feeder, she expressed her anal glands onto the couch. 🙄

When I was a kid imagining adult life, cleaning anal glad secretions off the furniture definitely wasn't what I had in mind.

[tweet from Jonathan Fine that reads "I really don't think people quite grasp just how much more well read highly educated people used to be in the past"].

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

They were the soundtrack of my teenage years.

Wish I could go! Sadly, Minnesota is a bit too far of a drive.

I'm a box checker by nature so it's struggle for me some days when I have to let things go undone 😅

I have to constantly remind myself that the goal is learning, not checking off boxes. If your child can't learn because they're dealing with a mental health issue, forcing them to go through the motions so you can check something off your list isn't doing anyone any good.

#homeschool

My seven-year-old has both ADHD and anxiety, and some days (like today) her anxiety is really bad. So we kept it pretty laid back and took a day off from her normal curriculum. She played outside a lot and we read some of D'Aulaire's Greek Myths and Brambly Hedge. Now she's watching a documentary.

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NYTimes alert: A New State of Matter? 18m ago Microsoft said it created a new phase of physical existence that is not a liquid, solid or gas, a development many experts didn't think possible.

Jesus fucking christ can we just not

Biologists Call For A Halt To ‘Mirror Life’ Research A “mirror organism” would have proteins and DNA shaped in a way that’s the mirror image of how they naturally appear.

A “mirror organism” would have proteins and DNA with an opposite “handedness” of conventional life on Earth.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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Reading entire books is cool and fun and all the world's worst people don't like that

It's gorgeous but I could also see myself wearing satin pajamas and then slipping right off the bottom of the chair

So what would you suggest doing about it? I'm asking genuinely. Bashing the Dems because they did things we didn't agree with is how we ended up with Trump instead of Harris, and bashing Walz and the DFL over line 3 seems unproductive given the current state of things.

No matter where your kids go to school, teach them history at home, too.

I tried to start one a few weeks ago and thought it was going well, but then the sides of the jar started growing mold. Back to square one, I guess. Good luck with yours!

I don't know, you'd have to ask him that. But I'm certainly not going to badmouth the good things he does because he's done things I don't agree with in the past.

We know there’s a science behind teaching ALL kids to read, so why are we STILL in a literacy crisis?

It’s not (only) because of the pandemic …

Too many people have chosen to ignore the research, many times being sneaky about it.

Too many curriculums chose profit over helping our kids read.