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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
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
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Last Circle Time

My oldest son never expected to be on lockdown for the final third of his senior year, unable to go anywhere, do anything, or see anyone. He never expected to wonder if we’d be allowed to have a graduation celebration. He never expected to contemplate whether his college would open in the fall. He never expected to invent a Plan B, a gap year in which he worked a lot of hours (in case he isn’t allowed to do what Continue Reading…
April 10, 2020