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Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Mother's Education
How to Break Out of the Materialist Mindset

Last week, we talked about having better conversations. Our main focus was on freezing up because we have difficulty explaining ourselves. Today’s post will naturally have an effect on conversations, too, but it’s more than that. This gets personal because we aren’t just confronting a materialist mindset when we are Out There in the World. We were raised in the world and we imbibed not only its good things, but also its poisons. That includes the materialist mindset. It’s inside Continue Reading…
July 6, 2022
Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Mother's Education
“I wish I could explain myself better.”

This. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard variations of this statement, especially in regard to homeschooling. The phrase comes up when we homeschool moms are trying to explain ourselves to well-intended relatives who question our decision to homeschool, our curriculum, our lifestyle, and more. It also comes up when homeschool moms are trying to talk to each other. I hear this a lot in the Charlotte Mason and classical community: How can I possibly explain what Continue Reading…
July 1, 2022
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Proper Care and Feeding of Teenagers: (Part 2: A Principle for Teens)

Last time, I talked about what I call the First Principle: We are nourishers. This is a first principle for mothers. I said in that post that Part 2 would focus on food, but I hadn’t considered what we need to cover before that: the first principle we need to teach our teens. It’s different with teens when compared to younger children; they have (rightfully so) more freedom and make more of their own decisions. Therefore, they need a principle Continue Reading…
June 27, 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