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Nature Study: Keeping it Real, Making it Happen... Consistently
~As an artist, lover of nature and ardent admirer of Ms. Stacy (Anne of Green Gables!) I felt like Nature Study would be a shoo in for...
Diversity & Charlotte Mason
I wonder if, when in the crush of a fad you realize it or is it that with the intensity of it all you genuinely think that this is a...
Let Them Have Heroes
Our country’s history is full of men who espoused high ideals and sometimes failed to live up to them. It is peopled by men and women who...
Parables From Home Life
I think God speaks to us in natural day to day things. In support of this idea I offer the fact that Jesus used these things to speak to...
Sublimation
“What do we plant when we plant a tree…?” This little poem was part of Maddy’s science reading last week. It led me to wonder… What do we...
Online Community is not Community
In the last year, churches, schools and homeschool co-ops have adapted and perfected new technology and platforms to cope with the...
Raising Kids is Like Paddling a Canoe
I have been watching the homeschool community from the gravel bar through several generations now and I have noticed that the...
The Layered Rewards of "Slow Reading"
In a culture that expects everything on demand; the double layered reward of slow reading goes beyond the knowledge encased in the book;...
Reflecting on "Little Women"- Real or Ideal?
Over the holidays we re-watched the “correct” version of one of our favorite movies, “Little Women”. (See the picture with this post to...
The Part We May Play
There is an inner thought life that constitutes the true education of a child, indeed of us all. The thoughts that come back to us of...
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