By Daddy Clay Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I’m a huge advocate for experiential education, creative curriculum, and having kids learn in a variety of styles, but between Valentine’s Day and my son’s “Night of Nations” project I’m ready to chase a box of conversation hearts with a quart of rum and call it a parenting career.

The Valentine’s thing, I sort of get.  I did it when I was a kid — decorate the bag, address the cards, shove the red plastic-y looking lollipop in there.  And I’m also grateful for the initiative my daughter took in creating her own craft-paper Valentine’s.  Once we had finally hoovered up the drifts of clippings from that project, it was on to the winter poem memorization mobile project. Think snowmen with hearts. Okay. Done. Read the rest of this entry »

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