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Principles of Antifragility for Motherhood (Part Two)

I finished Antifragile on Monday, and I’m still thinking about it. It’s quite fun, playing around with the ideas — thinking about how these concepts can apply to real life in a real homeschool with real kids. For today’s post, I’ve pulled some more of Taleb’s brilliant gems as I promised last time. In fact, if you haven’t read Part One, you should probably do that first. With that said, let’s have some fun. 1. “[H]eroism is the exact inverse Continue Reading…
November 10, 2020
Home Education
Principles of Antifragility for Motherhood (Part One)

I ‘m finishing up Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile, a book I’ve been reading in an on-again, off-again manner all year. It’s not that it’s so put-downable. It’s just that it’s the book I need to put down when there are other priorities. But I always enjoy Taleb’s writing (even when he’s being pompous) and Antifragile is possibly my new favorite of his works (before this, it was The Black Swan, of course). Taleb was a trader on Wall Street for Continue Reading…
October 26, 2020
Home Education
The Belated Fall Mother Culture Habit Trackers are Here!

If you get my newsletter, you know that my computer died a couple weeks ago and it was pretty much a disaster. No, I wasn’t smart enough to back up my data. Ugh. Saying that aloud is humiliating, but it is what it is: we’re three weeks into the school year and I’m winging it while an IT guy is mining my corrupt hard drive for salvageable doc files. (Here’s hoping I don’t have to rebuild my 180-day school plans Continue Reading…
September 8, 2020
Home Education
Don’t Look Twice: Critical Advice to Give Our Children

I love the little gems Charlotte Mason drops concerning purity in her fourth volume, Ourselves. She would likely be astounded at how very needed her words are. In a world where pedophiles and abusers are hunting down child victims, we have to teach our children how to protect themselves. Don’t look twice isn’t just sage advice; it’s critical protection for our young. When I was a child, pornography usage among the young was often deliberate. What I mean is, they Continue Reading…
August 31, 2020