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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher appeared on at home version of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They’re promoting their Quarantine Wine, which is apparently very successful, having raised about $1M so far. Since all the profits go to four really good charities, I’m very happy it’s making the money it is. I’d be even happier if Mila and Ashton would stop talking over each other to tell us about it, though. Mila and Ashton are parents to daughter Wyatt, five, and son Dimitri, three. Since it is teacher appreciation week, Jimmy asked them about how their homeschooling efforts were...

So lockdown life means for our homeschooling kids, that school goes on as usual, but not quite usual. A lot of our homeschooling is spent on outings and road tripping and certainly the best way for my kids to get a feel for their local geography and culture is to immerse the in community projects as much as we can. This year is different, very different and so we are road tripping from our kitchen table. Towards the end of last year we were lucky enough to win a copy of the Meandering Mzansi Curriculum, which is an overland guide...

If all else fails, Ashton Kutcher should definitely consider a career in teaching. The actor-slash-producer-slash-entrepreneur, who is clearly in no need of a backup plan, sat down with wife Mila Kunis to chat with Jimmy Fallon about what they've been up to since isolating at home. For starters, it sounds like they've been absolutely crushing homeschooling their two kids - 5-year-old daughter Wyatt and 3-year-old son Dimitri - and even shared a helpful hack to help out other parents. Mila said that over the last few weeks, she's come to the realization that she's a "fantastic TA. I'm a professional...

The May-June issue of  Harvard Magazine carries an article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” promoting the argument of Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet that the U.S. should enact “a presumptive ban” on homeschooling. Homeschooling is essentially unregulated, Bartholet argues, and many parents adopt this method of educating their children for nefarious reasons including indoctrinating the parents’ values into their children, isolating the children from society, and abusing them. Parents should be assumed to be incompetent and dangerous educators of their children. Therefore, specific parents may homeschool their children only if government officials determine that allowing them to educate their children...

Photo: Kristin Brown on Unsplash It’s been seven weeks since school closed. Sometime during week one, I woke in the middle of the night and caught the teaching bug. You see, our son attends a completely play-based preschool, and therefore writing, not even letters were happening for him in the near future. So, I stepped up to the challenge and gave the whole homeschooling thing a shot. Welcome to “Mama School.” It worked! I believe it’s still working because it dawned on me that as a parent teaching a young child, you need to have a happy medium. Our medium is “kid’s choice.” Every...