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What book will you co-author with your wife?

1687 sats \ 9 comments \ @cryotosensei 17 Feb BooksAndArticles

zaps forwarded to @siggy47 (50%)

Am reading these two books when the similarity between them hit me like a bolt of lightning:

They are written by husband-and-wife teams.

Which is amazing. I don’t think my wife and I could ever co-author a book because our interests and personalities are as different as day and night. Case in point: she loves planning and sticking to the plan. I love just wringing it. Opposites attract huh, like in the laws of magnetism.

But what about you? Is there a common topic that you think you could co-write on with your wife,

If you’re happily single, you could think of your best buddy and answer this question from that angle. Long Way Round was written by best buds Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.

Zapping some sats to @siggy47 to partially fund his second writing contest

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343 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 17 Feb

The Perfect Storm "How to raise and homeschool two kids and survive"

Haha.

80 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 18 Feb

I love the title. Given that perfect typically evokes positive vibes, the title suggests that this is a cross that both of you are willing to bear xP

How far apart are your kids? As in how do you cater to their varied needs at the same time? Do they work on some projects together? I imagine you and your wife must have trained them to be independent

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 18 Feb

My son is 13 and my daughter 5. Mostly the little one is a handful. My son is pretty good as long as you can keep him focused on his school work and off his tablet. My son works very independently. He has been homeschooled his entire life so he is used to reviewing his lesson plan (it's all online) for the day and getting after it. He has some science experiments and different types of research or writing assignments where he might ask us for help but most of his work is independent. As for my daughter she uses abc mouse as her main learning platform but we don't want her on screens all day so we augment maybe an hour or two of abc mouse with math and phonics books, playing with shapes, colouring, building with blocks types of activities that we are more hands on with her.

Both are doing extremely well. My son is a grade ahead in all subjects and two grades ahead in math and my daughter is working on grade one level work even though she should be in kindergarten.

We started homeshooling my son because we were travelling a lot back and forth from Canada and the US when he was very young and he got so far ahead working that way that without paying a fortune for a private school we could not find a school to accommodate how far he was ahead so since my wife was not working she just continued homeschooling him. The past couple years since I sold my business, I stared to help out with their home schooling too so my wife could get a p/t job.

I can't take much credit with how well the kids have done with their homeschooling. My wife has done most of the work.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 19 Feb

It’s great that by homeschooling, you and your wife are instilling in them good habits that will stand them in good stead in future

157 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 fwd 17 Feb

Thanks! Writing Contest #2 will be posted Sunday. I'm a long time libertarian. My wife recently became a libertarian more or less on her own, and almost entirely as a result of the covid lockdown. When I married her she was a liberal democrat. I never suspected her dormant anarchic tendencies. Might make a good story.

288 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 17 Feb

Must feel particularly satisfying that your wifey came to your preferred conclusions without you intervening haha

128 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 fwd 17 Feb

She reads and watches libertarian videos more than me now.

99 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 18 Feb

Is she into Fountain as well? She can support @Undisciplined’s clips haha

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Feb

Glad to hear it. My wife has had a similar swing, but it's mostly because of our exposure to more and more taxes as we've built our life together. Unlike all the cultists who seem to have Stockholm Syndrome, she vehemently resents corrupt politicians stealing our livelihood.