Early Childhood Education
The photo above is deceiving. It looks like one of our middle daughters is helping our 3 year old baby “do school,” but Baby …
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Yes To Better Things
Today, we started another school year. (My theory is that by taking advantage of the air conditioning inside the surface of the sun …
Cradle Rocking In The Nursery Of The Nation
The boys came with me to the post office the other day to get some things mailed. Behind us in line stood a real cowboy. …
Homeschooling High School Charlotte Mason Style
Feeling overwhelmed by all the options for high school, I set aside my list of curriculum publishers and subjects I intended to investigate, and listened …
The Milgrim Experiment
At a social event when I was six or seven years old, a girl, who I thought was my friend, told me to hit another …
A Better Ending | Living Book Review
Sometimes, when things get hectic (while dinner is cooking and everyone is tired and hungry, for example, or when it’s raining and there’s “nothing …
A Piece Of The Mountain | Living Book Review
One of the books we enjoyed reading for science this year was A Piece of the Mountain: The Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce McPherson. …
Education: The Science Of Relations
Charlotte Mason says that “education is the science of relations.” The connections we make between one thing and another are evidence of what …
The Value of Self-Education
One of our girls loves to hand sew doll clothes. By her own admission, her first few pieces were rather unrefined and sloppy, but she …
Weaknesses or Strengths: Where Should I Direct My Attention?
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ve probably picked up on something about me: I am a terrible speller. I …