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Mother's Education, Other Thoughts
Thinking Through my Oxygen Experiment

As most of you know, I invited all of you to participate in a little homeschool science experiment concerning masks. There are a few negative things said about the health consequences of mask wearing, most of which we could never test out at home. But pulse oximeters make it possible to test one thing easily: whether or not mask wearing negatively affects a person’s oxygenation. My hypothesis, which I stated at the outset, was that it would negatively affect oxygenation. Continue Reading…
July 1, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Mother’s Education Course: Summer 2020

I posted the Mother Culture Reading List last week. That list is meant for a more casual sort of reading. Yes, it’s organized and, yes, it’s structured by habit — but at the end of the day there is something more ordinary about it. The Mother’s Education Course list (the list below) is meant for you more serious readers. To try and undertake anything like the MEC, even for a summer, requires more discipline than habit because it’s meant for Continue Reading…
June 8, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Summer 2020 Mother Culture Reading List! (Plus a Summer Reading Habit Tracker!)

Every year at this time, I put out a couple reading lists. This year, I’m doing the Mother Culture Reading List first. If you aren’t familiar with the term “mother culture,” I’m actually referring to an article that appeared in Charlotte Mason’s Parents’ Review Magazine way back in 1892. The Mother Culture article does a couple important things. First, it reminds us that books are a way to wisdom — that a solid reading life is imperative if Mom is Continue Reading…
June 1, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine, Installment Two

Installment One is here. I noticed that some of my recommendations started falling off of my Facebook page (or wall or whatever it’s called), so I decided to preserve them here sooner rather than later. Before I do that, though, I thought I’d review something I talked about in my newsletter a couple weeks ago: stability. There are a number of times Charlotte Mason implies that wide reading gives us stability. In In Memoriam, for example, she is quoted: The Continue Reading…
May 4, 2020