Let's rephrase the beginning and move on ...

Here are two scenes, quite complementary:

In the first scene, the homeschooling mom praises her son's progress in terms of reduced frenzies of video-gaming and TV-watching and, perhaps, an overall less-agonized acceptance of some of his newer homeschooling responsibilities.

In the second scene, we check on the homeschooling son and learn that he has been watching TV from early-morning cartoons through to these later-night bedtime-hour shows. The mom says, "Have you had the TV on ALL DAY???"
The son nods and says, quite cheerfully, "Yes, I believe it's a new record!"

Today's project (words can only describe ...)

Today my son and I are composing an afghan crochet project. I am being the chief crochet hook wielder and my son is being chief color consultant and style and texture coordinator.

I call it an 'afghan' in a very loose sense, for we do not yet know if it will become big enough to claim this title. Maybe it will end up being a scarf or a doily, or a rug or book cover or treasure map. The start of something bigger that remains smaller until some later time, defined by colors and shape rather than by size.

In the beginning ...

This is the end of my third week of being a stay-at-home / home-schooling / learning-at-home mom with my son David.

I think it quite likely that we are going to survive this home-schooling thing! -- I hesitate to proclaim this too loudly, as my belief in opposites and their occurrences so often seems to come true. -- Especially when I've proclaimed something Positive, which is a definite invitation for something Negative to occur!
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Update, March 30, 2006: I'm updating my 'dacmom' blog six months after this first entry. My son and I have made the rounds of several different homeschooling philosophies and styles ... "eclectic" remains the only true descriptive of what we have tried!
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