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 […]
Homeschool
Eight Years of Homeschool Encouragement and Tips
When you’re on a challenging journey, you need all the inspiration, tips, advice, and signposts you can get. Recently I was learning from my old homeschool encouragement posts and decided to organize the best of them for you (and me). For new homeschoolers My readers and I teamed up to list Advice for a Newbie Homeschooling […]
Fond Memories: Our 5 Kids’ Top 30 Homeschool Resources
My five children (ages 13-22) have gone through a huge range of curriculum in almost two decades of homeschooling, so when I asked the at-home crowd what their favorites had been, there was silence around the table. They needed to think…and then they started to talk. Later, when I emailed my oldest daughter, I got […]
Review: Minds More Awake by Anne White
Anne White, veteran Charlotte Mason educator and one of the developers of the comprehensive (and free) Ambleside Online curriculum had a few questions. She wondered, “…what is it that children need to be taught in order to grow into critical thinkers, problem solvers, decision makers? How do they develop the attentiveness to fix their minds […]
Enjoy Your Homeschool Conference
Tomorrow is our annual homeschooling conference and for the first time in years I will not be able to attend. Sometimes life seriously gets in the way, and it’s best if we learn to accept that cheerfully and not complain about what God has put in our path. But–and this is a big ‘but’–if you can make […]