Category Archives: Four Moms

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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4 Moms Q and A

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: June 6, 2013

What games do your families love to play? (As in card and board games.) Games?  Ooooh, we love games!!  Follow the link to a picture of our game cupboard and a long list of games we play- including descriptions of games you can’t buy, but can play with things around the house, and our favorite [...]

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Q and A 5/23: Read Alouds, Discipline; School Year, and more

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: May 23, 2013

We are moving to the country! Yippee!! One major change for us is that we will now be 30 minutes from a grocery store instead of 5. There is also no Chinese or pizza delivery out there. Any tips for quick pantry meals to have on hand? How about making sure our groceries last the [...]

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4 Moms Share Vegetarian Recipes

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: May 16, 2013

This week our theme is vegetarian recipes. At the Common Room we aren’t vegetarian, although I have been a vegetarian before. My husband wouldn’t go full vegetarian with me, and my midwife talked me out of it, and now we are all meat-eaters here. However, I still like a vegetarian meal from time to time, [...]

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Four Moms Q and A; seating, books, kindergarten, morning sickness, chores, and more

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: May 2, 2013

We’re a wee bit flighty here at the Common Room.   We have some giddy but still not ready for discussion family news and that caused me to be more than unusually unsettled in my thoughts.  As always, if you see a question and you have a better answer (or just another answer), feel free to [...]

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Four Moms Q and A; 4/18/13

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: April 18, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are changing our structure, basically switching the current format of three weeks of assigned topics and one week of Q and A. From now on 3 of us will be answering Q&A every Thursday, and once a month all 4 of us will write on some preassigned topic. To [...]

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4 Moms: “Teaching advanced topics such as trig, dissection, or a foreign language”

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: April 11, 2013

We decided that once a month all four of us would discuss one of the numerous topics we still have in our queue of discussion subjects.  The other Thursdays in the month, three of us will do the Q and A.  We have no set time for how long we’ll do things this way.   This [...]

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4 Moms Q and A for April 04

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: April 3, 2013

Like our Facebook page and then you can leave your questions for other Q and A Thursdays! Q.  What are your favorite books for the preschool age, and why? I have listed many of our favorites with some details about them here.  That said, The Equuschick is reading The Hobbit to her 3 and 2 [...]

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4 Moms Q and A Thursday; weaning, shortcuts, ‘I hate you!’ and more

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: March 28, 2013

For an indefinite amount of time, three of the Four Moms will be entertaining questions every Thursday. We have no set routine for which questions we answer, and we don’t discuss it ahead of time. We just choose the questions from our FB that we wish to answer. I find out what Connie and Kim [...]

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Q and A, Four (Three) Moms

By Headmistress, zookeeper | Published: March 21, 2013

Be sure to visit our Thrift Store LInky, and get some tips on reselling those finds from the HG, who is making a decent next egg each month doing just that. Enter to win a hundred dollars! How do you deal with a snotty attitude in a 7 year old? Some days he’s just nasty. [...]

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