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Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Welcome to Homeschooling

This week, my church asked me to put together an emergency curriculum and sample schedule for those in our congregation who are unexpectedly homeschooling during this Coronavirus crisis. I used a lot of AmblesideOnline (including the amazing HELP — Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan) to come up with something that I thought was simple, easy to understand, inexpensive (practically free), and a good fit for the people I love. Parents needed to know what to do on Wednesday, when the Continue Reading…
March 20, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Your Strong-Willed Child … Isn’t

The will is the controller of the passions and emotions, the director of the desires, the ruler of the appetites. But observe, the passions, the desires, the appetites, are there already, and the will gathers force and vigour only as it is exercised in the repression and direction of these … Home Education, p. 319 I know, I know. My whole generation was brought up on Dr. Dobson, so it’s practically heresy to say this. But I maintain. Especially since Continue Reading…
February 18, 2020
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Home Education
There’s Dew on the Grass in the Morning

“That’s all very well,” cried Montag, “but what are they mad about? Who are these people? Who’s that man and who’s that woman? Are they husband and wife, are they divorced, engaged, what? Good [omitted], nothing’s connected up.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 I ‘m reading a book on ADD that is, I think, helpful, but it’s also made me squirm a lot because the author so often uses computers as an analogy for human minds. What I keep coming Continue Reading…
February 5, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Doubling Down on Simplicity (Some Thoughts on Homeschool Planning)

Complexity … needs to be countered by simplicity.– Nassim Nicholas Taleb Like many business-type books, The Black Swan can be helpful to a homeschool mom if she couples her reading with imagination and a generous dose of extrapolation. One particularly helpful concept in the book is that of a “complex domain.” Homeschooling clearly fits his definition: A complex domain is characterized by the following: there is a great degree of interdependence between its elements, both temporal (a variable depends on Continue Reading…
August 5, 2019