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Just wanted to let you know of a couple great blog carnivals that are new this week :)

First is the Canadian Home Educators Blog Carnival , a tour across our nation visiting homeschooling families letting you have a peak inside their homes to see just what sort of fun things they've been up to *grin*. New participants are always welcome and feel free to share anything that you want. There is no weekly topic and if you don't have anything from this week to share, how about last week? We would love to come and visit you :)

The next carnival I want to share with you is the 162nd Carnival of Homeschooling that is over at Dewey's Treehouse. There are loads of fantastic articles to read and this week's theme centers around 'Homeschool Identity Crisis'. Gee... now that's a familiar topic *grin*.

And last but definitely not least is the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival which is being hosted by 'A Peaceful Day'. This is one of my favorite carnivals and I can't wait to spend a little time there later on tonight after everyone has gone to bed :)

Now for some 'food for thought'. Earlier this morning I ran across an entry at Eco Child's Play that really struck a nerve with me. She writes...

"To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to nature.  No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow."......

What is wrong with this picture?! I can see adding in more technological words into the dictionary because we are surrounded by mass amounts of technology these days, but to do it at the expense of nature is completely NOT acceptable in my books! With the current push by the government to get our children outdoors and more active because of the growing amount of inactive children, plus the new requirements for DL homeschoolers to log 30 minutes of physical activity each day, 5 days a week in addition to regular PE requirements you'd think that we would be trying to bring more nature into our lives and the lives of our children to get them 'plugged into' the outdoors.... not erasing it from their memories. What do you think??

Make sure you head over to Eco Child's Play to read her entire article, Nature Words Dopped From Children's Dictionary! It's definitely something that we should take an interest in since we may be the only ones left to teach our children about the outdoors soon :(

Blessings,

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Posted by PuddleJumpers

Thank you for sharing that info. I had not heard of that happening, how awful. I will check out that article.
~Lori
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/henhouse

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Posted by jenn4him

I wish there were more hours in the day to read blogs!
Jenn :-)

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Posted by Canadagirl

Thank you soooooooo much for your post ! I am for sure going to check these out. I have been having a hard time getting time to blog but I always feel soooooooo blessed after coming to visit ... YOU. (((HUGS))) Your blog is soooooo inspiring and I hope to take some lessons from you in how you write such a inspiring blog. Thank you my SSiC.

I hope to be around A LOT more now days. I have been working real hard to simplify my life and it may just all come together. [0;

Blessings and ((HUGS)) my SSiC
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-Mary

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