Welcome

Welcome to my new Homeschooling with Dad blog.

This is the blog in which I, the Dad, write about life as a full-time stay-at-home homeschooling parent.

This is my third blog site; hopefully it'll work better than the previous two.

My first was http://blog.sina.com.cn/kiwidaddy, which I started in 2009 when we first transitioned to me being the full-time stay-at-home parent.  At the time we were living in China, and the plan was to do some bilingual stuff -- me writing in English and my wife (Mama) writing in Chinese.  But the Chinese posts were few and far between, as Mama has real work to do.

Unfortunately, Sina started to get a bit troublesome.  Some of what I put there mysteriously disappeared (Chinese Big Brother didn't like something I said?).  And there were far too many pop-up ads jumping up in front of my posts (capitalist China in action).

So, in 2014 I sent my last post to Sina and switched to http://homeschoolingwithdad.blog.co.nz.  I chose Blog.com because it was one of the few English blog sites that wasn't blocked by China's Great Firewall.

But it turns out Blog.com has its own 502 and 504 Error problems.  Most of the time the site is down, with all blogs unavailable.  In the past few weeks I haven't been able to get on to it even once.  Enough is enough.

So, here we are, at http://homeschooling-with-dad.blogspot.co.nz.  I know blogspot is blocked in China, but hopefully it will at least be available around the rest of the world, and no 502s.

UPDATED 5/11/2016: I have discovered some old blog entries I posted to http://homeschoolingwithdad.blog.co.nz that I had saved on my computer.  Since the blog.co.nz site has been completely unavailable for the past several months I will repost therm here, dated at the time I wrote them.  Unfortunately, there are still many more posts that I don't have and are lost (maybe forever?).