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The Official 2022 Afterthoughts Read Aloud List

Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading…
January 19, 2023
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The 2023 Afterthoughts Book Awards

This felt like an odd reading year to me. My categories were a bit different from normal, and I did a lot more whim reading than I intended. (I really think whim reading is the only solution during times of high stress!) But I’m happy I read what I did, and I do have a number of gems to share with you today. As usual, the only contenders for these awards were books I actually finished in 2022. I read Continue Reading…
January 10, 2023
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The 2022 Fall Habit Trackers are Here

Get Your Mother Culture Habit Tracker Collection Now! What are we tracking? I like to remind you each time: What exactly are we tracking with these Mother Culture Habit Trackers? Since we can’t track nebulous things like “personal growth” or “feeding the soul with ideas,” we choose instead to track habits that lead to these sorts of ends. We define Mother Culture here according to the original article in The Parents’ Review: 30 minutes per day of reading. Maintain a Continue Reading…
September 9, 2022
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