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Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Summer 2022 Mother Culture Reading List! (Plus Summer Reading Habit Trackers!)

Time for the second summer reading list! The more intense 2022 Mothers’ Education Course list is here. Today’s list is for the Regular People, the people who want to continue to read, but aren’t going to do the 100-pages-per-week goal of an MEC plan. As I mentioned in the MEC list post, I combine these two concepts by keeping a pile of books that fall into MEC categories, but reading them in a Mother Culture style, picking up the book Continue Reading…
May 31, 2022
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Mothers’ Education Course: Summer 2022

Wow! I just looked back. Can you believe it? This is my EIGHTH Mothers’ Education Course list! It’s hard for me to believe I’ve been making them this long, but then again my oldest also turned TWENTY this week. Maybe I am getting old! The years are all starting to run together. 😉 As many of you know, I put out two summer reading lists per year. These are simply to serve as inspiration. (Surely I’m not the only one Continue Reading…
May 26, 2022
Books & Reading
The Official 2021 Afterthoughts Read Aloud List

I always assumed my read aloud lists would get much shorter as my children got older. I suspected that fatal combination of busy kids and longer works would do it. But Covid, ah Covid. My kids still at home just aren’t as busy as my oldest was at their ages. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but there’s not much I can do about it. A good example is the children’s choir my children joined in the fall Continue Reading…
January 10, 2022
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The 2022 Afterthoughts Book Awards

Let me begin with a confession: This was my worst reading year in over a decade. I ended up working on very time-consuming projects that wore away at me. I only had the mental energy left for easy reading most days during that time. Couple that with a carpet installation disaster that happened this summer — my library was supposed to be boxed up for a week or two, but ended up being boxed up for two months — and Continue Reading…
January 5, 2022