In the past few years I have repeatedly read about how our ‘objective’ decisions and opinions are often influenced by completely unexpected factors. The mind is a fascinating thing. For us homeschooling moms who spend our days trying to train our children’s minds, such research and conclusions can have practical implications. Mastermind, an analysis of […]
Homeschool Tips
Slowing Down
This has been a year of thinking fast, working fast, and reading fast…and even of feeling fast and praying fast. Although the first three can be positive, the last two most certainly are not. Therefore, I’m slowing down this summer. I’m not making a huge list of things for us to accomplish. We’re having minimal […]
Ambleside Online
For almost twenty years I’ve been looking at, comparing, purchasing, and reviewing a wide variety of homeschool curricula. In all those years, one option has always stood out, Ambleside Online. Ambleside Online is an incredible Charlotte Mason curriculum. Spanning all the grades with a few extra options for lighter years and catch up years, it […]
Notes on The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn
A few weeks ago we celebrated our 25th anniversary. Through health and sickness, riches and poverty, joy and heartbreak, God has been with us, and we have learned much about marriage. But even for us there are still helpful and encouraging ideas in Shaunti Feldhahn’s book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages: The Little […]
Election Report Guidelines
You know how sometimes you just want your kids to learn and write about something without a lot of angst and procrastination? Well, we’re having an election in Ontario and that’s a golden opportunity for a report. But this time I’m telling my teens exactly what I want to see in the report. It’s almost […]