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June 09, 2003

I'm a home educator! Goodbye TV!

Wow! Saturday was the UHEA convention and I am so pumped! I love teaching my children. And now I have even more ideas on how to do it. We are cutting down on TV time. I feel like that's our biggest challenge right now. Even though Xan only watches educational shows, I feel like the TV monopolizes his day a lot of the time. So now our rule is no TV till 3:00 and today was our first day. Wow, we read a long chapter from the Book of Mormon, and Xander read 5 books. I read to Sullivan and Sully worked on his letters for a while. Then we did our chores. I feel like we got a lot more done than we usually do. Xan started a list of things he wants to do and learn about in our homeschool and I'm looking forward to working on that list. I don't think we'll take the summer off. Why wait? My kids don't know the difference anyway!

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