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Introducing: Swedish Drill Revisited IV – An Advanced Routine with Optional Cardio

I am thrilled to announce that the latest addition to the Swedish Drill Revisited series is available in the Afterthoughts store. This latest level of Swedish Drill Revisited is for those who have mastered the content in the first three volumes of this series and are ready for the next challenge. In Swedish Drill Revisited IV you will be introduced to thirteen new exercises in a single advanced routine that incorporates multi-planar and cross lateral movements to optimize neurological as well Continue Reading…
July 29, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Handicrafts as Knowledge of the Universe

If you’ve read a fair amount of Charlotte Mason’s work, then you know that she uses the traditional divisions of knowledge: the knowledge of God (classically speaking this began with divine philosophy and metaphysics — the study of the five transcendentals: being, goodness, truth, beauty, and unity — and ended in theology, the highest science of all), the knowledge of man (what was once called moral philosophy), and the knowledge of the universe (natural philosophy or, in Latin, scientia naturalis). Continue Reading…
July 22, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Narrow-Mindedness, That Demon of the Intellect (Charlotte Mason and Gifted Kids)

Some people call it preoccupation. Others call it intense focus. My mother called it having a one-track mind. Personally, I call it obsession. Whatever it’s called, gifted kids are particularly prone it it. (Please note: this doesn’t mean regular kids don’t get this way, or that all gifted kids do. I’m just making a generalization based on observation.) Parental intervention isn’t always required, of course. Johnny’s new interest in trains is just that: new. It’ll wear off in a month, Continue Reading…
May 18, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Your Children Don’t Need an Expert

I can’t tell you how many second-generation homeschool moms I’ve had take one of my classes, or sit in one of my conference talks, who have contacted me afterwards and exclaimed that they recognize their own educations in what I am teaching. Their mamas may not have heard of the likes of Charlotte Mason. They may not have known that someone somewhere thought there were Natural Laws of Education. But that didn’t seem to harm the children they were bringing Continue Reading…
April 29, 2020