Imagine trying to follow any significant modern conversation, whether in person, online, or in print, without sharing a common knowledge base. Imagine how lost you would often feel if you did not know anything at all about fairy tales, the Civil War, John F. Kennedy, the cell, Queen Victoria, Greek mythology, E=mc2, Buddhism, apartheid, the […]
High School
Review: Career Exploration by Vicki Tillman
As homeschooling parents of teens we are not only teachers; we are also guidance counsellors. This is enough to frighten many parents but there are resources that make it easier. One of them is Vicki Tillman’s Career Exploration, a workbook that explores many aspects of a teen’s aptitudes, interests, and passions and helps translate them […]
Review: Smart but Scattered Teens by Guare, Dawson, and Guare
Perhaps you have one of them, a teen who is bright but just can’t seem to get things together. Sometimes I suspect most of us, parents and teens, are scattered in one way or another. But some struggle in a deeper way with executive skills, ‘the functions of our brains and thought processes that help […]
Sex Education with Jonathan McKee
We Christian homeschoolers can teach our kids almost anything, and we do. The one thing we have issues with, however, is sex education and that is because, as Christians, most of us are unaware of what the world out there is actually like these days. And unless you’ve seen the enemy, you don’t know what […]
Jane Eyre: Thoughts and Quotations
You’ve probably heard the story. Orphan Jane, mistreated as a charity case, courted as a governess, tempted to become a missionary, narrates. She tells of rugged Mr. Rochester, dear little Adele, sweet Diana and Mary, cold St. John and, above all, herself, a meek but intense person, easily overpowered, capable of revolt when pressed too […]