Author Archives: Headmistress, zookeeper

Four Moms: Teen Boys, Roosters, Playdates, homeschooling gaps, parental authority, culture….

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 20, 2013

I want to stress that these ‘answers’ are to be seen more like a conversation, or even a peek into my diary of thoughts about what we do and why. Nothing here is intended to be a criticism or a refutation of what you do, even if I answer your question with ‘we don’t do [...]

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Links, Thinks, and Family News

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 19, 2013

4 Moms Q and A is tomorrow.  Have questions?  We have answers, so let’s see if they match.  Share your questions here for me, or on our FB wall for all of us.   Can you be a lady without being modest?     Did you see this great short talk on the evolution of [...]

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Hurting Homes, IV

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 19, 2013

I have blogged a couple of times about hurting homes where the focus was on homes where one of the parents is an angry tyrant victimizing the family.  Today’s post is about another sort of horrific hurt- when a member of the family has been sexually abused, particularly by another family member or a member [...]

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Nation’s Education Programs Are Mediocre. Give Us More Money and Power.

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 18, 2013

” All those thoughtless, unskilled, unproductive, self-indulgent, and eminently dupable Americans – where have they been and what did they learn there?” As Richard Mitchell was pointing out in Graves of Academe 30 years ago or more, they have been to public school and are putting into practice the lessons they learned there, as did [...]

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Ballot Fraud in ’08 Clinton/Obama Primary

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 18, 2013

~~”Prosecutors said that in President Obama’s case, nine of the petition pages were apparently forged. Each petition contains up to 10 names, making a possible total of 90 faked names, which could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit that was required for him to qualify for the ballot.” “If there is a [...]

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Free4Kindle: Books on gardening, budgeting, biographies, historical Christian fiction, and more

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 17, 2013

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads This allegedly has some musical notation information as well, but I don’t know how it works on the actual Kindle. The lyrics alone are pretty fun. I could see this being used for poetry and copywork for some boys (along with the poems of Robert Service), and if you [...]

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The Sacrament of Shared Food

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 17, 2013

Jenny brought home snacky treats from the Philippines. We have some out of the ordinary for Americans snacks and treats on hand courtesy of our five years in Japan and a recent visit to the Asian grocery store (red bean paste to have on pancakes or ice-cream; takuan or pickled daikon radish; Kimchi; red bean [...]

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True Compassion

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 17, 2013

True compassion doesn’t push the victim of a rape to kill her unborn child. That’s not a cure, it’s additional trauma. An eighth grade girl was raped and now pregnant. Her mother wanted her to abort. Her older sister was worried that this would be compounding one trauma with another, and asked Julia, a pro-life [...]

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Free4Kindle: Devotional Books and Christian Fiction

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 16, 2013

  These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first before you download, although nearly all, if not absolutely all, of these books should be free indefinitely as they are public domain texts without chapter by chapter formatting. (I love to hear from our [...]

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One Duckling Home….

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 14, 2013

The above pictures are of Rizal Park in the Philippines on their Independence Day.  Jenny Any Dots got to celebrate there this year with the rest of her team and many Filipino friends.  She had a wonderful and rewarding time. She says the team-leader always brings along American foods for breakfast so the American team [...]

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