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Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy
Are Children a Means or an End?

In every session of Charlotte Mason Boot Camp, we spend time reflecting on the importance of how we relate to our children in the second half of childhood. The default in our culture is to manipulate. Do I want my child to do his chores? I set up a sticker chart and have him earn rewards for doing them. We are very inspired by behaviorism. It’s a throwback to Pavlov’s dogs where stimulus can train the dog to give the Continue Reading…
October 1, 2026
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Last Senior Year

I wasn’t going to do this. I told myself I didn’t have it in me to go back over my notes and detail what I did. But then people started asking questions and it dawned on me that perhaps a post like this is the most efficient way to communicate these things. So here we are. I’m sharing the ins and outs of the last senior year for my last homeschool student, the year that was two decades in the Continue Reading…
August 17, 2026
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Maximalist Homeschooling: More Love is the Only Solution

For whatever reason, the concept of being driven and motivated by fear has come up in conversation with both of my adult daughters lately. In trying to explain it, I keep coming back to homeschooling: fear drives many to homeschool. They may be trying to avoid vaccines and bullies, they may be terrified of school shootings and bomb threats, or they may be well aware of the consequences of the curriculum content coupled with the school culture. No matter. The Continue Reading…
October 16, 2025
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
On Data Paralysis: Don’t Be Afraid to Act

On my 27th birthday, my husband gave me a set of Charlotte Mason’s volumes, which he knew I wanted (thanks to Cindy Rollins’ incessant blogging about it). We didn’t have a real backyard at the time (just a vacant lot, a giant square of dirt that made a huge mess I wasn’t always in the mood for), so I was in the habit of driving my two little ones (a four-year-old and four-month-old) over to my parents’ house for extended Continue Reading…
August 30, 2025