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Introducing Swedish Drill Flash Cards

Are you looking for a way to spice up your drill routine? Have your children started to anticipate commands before you give them? Or perhaps their performance is starting to look a bit too choreographed? This is where the Swedish Drill Revisited Flash Cards can help! But wait – doesn’t it say in Swedish Drill Revisited that the order of the exercises matter? Why, yes. It does say that. Swedish Drill was originally designed to follow a set pattern of Continue Reading…
November 23, 2020
Home Education
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