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11th December 2012 by Jax Blunt 1 Comment

There’s a danger, when you have children, to try to have a second go at life through them. To have them do the things you wish you could have done, to be able to glory in their achievements secondhand.

It doesn’t work. Our children’s lives are their own, and we triumph most when we support them to be themselves, not live as pale shadows of us.

There’s another thing though I think all parents do, and that is to try to save our children from the mistakes we feel we made. This I think can have variable success. It only works here when I explain precisely how whatever it was went wrong for me, in brutal and embarrassing detail. So I get to relive the mistake in all its humiliating glory in order to prevent repetition. The things I do for my offspring.

Right at the moment things are going surprisingly well. We are being open and honest and negotiating what we all need from each other. We’ve devised a new system to help with the housework as shown here.

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Yes, it is a wall covered with post its. Each one has a job on it, they all start on the left and get moved to whoever’s name did it on the right. High tech, I know, but whatever works. And big has started a new website to document what she’s learning about tech.

If this means that we can’t always do everything we had hoped, I guess that is the sacrifice we make. So we’ve annoyed that we are, communally, too tired to travel tomorrow, but we’ll find some way to make it up to our friends and we’re the better for confronting the difficulty.

We are learning.

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Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: housework, organisation, Parenting

How do you blog?

19th October 2010 by Jax Blunt 16 Comments

No, not what tech do you use? (Although that’s interesting in a building an amazon wishlist to replace this mortally wounded netbook sense ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

Rather, I’m interested in how you organise yourself. Are you a spur of the moment blogger? Do you get hit by inspiration and rush over to your admin panel straight from twitter to share your thoughts? (Thanks to @caroljs of New Mummy for the inspiration for this one!) Or do you ask twitter for a list of topics a la @cosmicgirlie for Mocha Beanie Mummy? (And apparently she’d already done everything I’d thought of, so I’m intrigued to see what she’ll come up with this time!)

Or perhaps you’ve all your writing done and it’s scheduled for the next week? I suspect @LauraAWNTYM from Are We Nearly there yet may be one of these!

Of course, most of the blogs I read are home ed blogs recounting the happenings of the day. And there is a post in progress recounting one of our days you may or may not be pleased to hear ๐Ÿ™‚ But that still leaves the question of why you started blogging – thinking particularly of our newest blogring members over at I rant, I rave and Schools out for now. (Please also take this as a hint to go and welcome them aboard ๐Ÿ™‚ )

Oh, and on the topic of the blogring. I *am* going to do some maintenance. Please don’t take it personally if I deactivate your blog. As I’ve never got around to writing a page that shows me hibernated blogs, the only way I can keep track of them is by deactivating them. If I ever get a round tuit I’ll write that page and we’ll all be happier, but until then, that’s the way it is. And I do need to (start to) keep the blogring fresh, it *is* still a fab resource for home educators and a part of the community. I have been slack. I will try harder ๐Ÿ™‚

Drifted off topic. Do you organise yourself? If so how? Be fascinated to know! Comments in the usual place, or I’ve opened trackbacks if you’d rather blog in your own home and link back ๐Ÿ™‚

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Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: blogging, blogring, organisation

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