Studies

I have come to a point in life where I have to choose - (isn't it every minute of every day we have to make decisions that will effect our life and the life of our cvhildren? every time I make a choice of acting a certain way, or not responding to a question, or feeling angry at someone... or any choice at all our life is effected deeply... but now I'm talking about the "big" decisions, the kind of decisions that most clearly form our future)to choose whether or not we are going to continue in our path at home or we should choose a school for our children and if so, what kind of school would it be? Would it be OK in a mainstream (regular) Israeli school? Maybe we should consider sending them to an alternative school (whatever that might mean...)?
Or maybe I should ask a slightly different question - why should the decision be mine? or ours as parents?
To understand all of the questions and to make sure I am asking those questions I decided to go and study a little. I am studying "the research of alternative education" in Haifa University. I am hoping to ask myself and others (professors and students) the fundamental questions of education and I am hoping to find my path by answering those qwuestions for myself. I suppose that most of the questions and the answers will depend on my belief system and so I am hoping to form one (or to articulate the one I already have, but can't see clearly).
My wish is to post some of the questions here in my blog and to have a discussion (all comments are welcome!)

logical reasoning

Buggies come from wind .... baba Olya said that, I don't have any buggies, because I don't feel any wind. (a little puzzled... I'm wiping her nose)

Zoo Doings

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Fiddler on the Roof

"They are so happy, they don't know how miserable they are"

I wish I could say this about myself all the time!

Nahal El Al

It has been over a week already and I still haven't written anything.... A hard week, I must say, with lots going on... so I'll just show you the smilebox.

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Michelle - foxes

Don't worry, baba, there are no foxes outside... just rats!

Eshel

I have been thinking about writing some of Eshel's words down for quite some time now - the time has come!

Ulya- daddy (don't ask me how he became Ulya - I don't know!?)
ba - ball
bah - fall, fell
bla - I don't like it / it's not tasty
mama
dzin - drink
Bati bat' - Mati ( and everything that belongs to Mati)
Agh (long with Hebrew H in the end) - truck / tractor
bike (you guessed it!) - Eshel loves bikes! it's the first word that comes out of his mouth when he wakes up and the last one too - he probably dreams about them too. The only books he listens to are about bikes and if you ask Eshel where his dad is, he'll tell you "bike" - riding a bike

aw-aw - dog and really any animal (except horses and the like)
kan'kan' - horse, giraffe, zebra
am am - to eat
ha-ha (like heavy breathing)-water - nif I don't understand he makes a sipping sound
sss - shoes, snake
uuuu-train, airplain
nyam-nyam - to nurse
by - by

I'll be adding some more, can't think of any now