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Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Spring 2023 Habit Trackers Are Here!

Spring is the perfect time to turn over a new leaf. March has arrived and we are armed and ready with brand new spring Mother Culture Habit Tracker and a whole collection of coordinating reading trackers for your students, plus blank habit trackers so you can track a lot more than your reading. Here’s a sampling: Get Your Mother Culture Habit Tracker Now! What are we tracking? I like to remind you each time: What exactly are we tracking with Continue Reading…
March 14, 2023
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Swedish Drill Revisited: New Expanded Edition

Introducing the New and Improved Swedish Drill Revisited Expanded Series It is with great excitement that I announce the expanded Swedish Drill Revisited series! QR Codes! What makes the series “new and improved”? I’m glad you asked! Beyond its fresh new look (thanks to my friend, Rebecca at A Humble Place, for the new cover design, and the incredible skills of my friend, Hayley, for the update to the interior pages), each manual in the series now contains QR codes Continue Reading…
March 7, 2023
Home Education
Homeschooling and the Three Lies of Modern Education

Like many of you, I grew up in the public school system. I was raised in pretty conservative areas of California, and while there were many things I didn’t like about school, I didn’t realize how completely my public school education had formed me. I thought that education was mostly neutral and that I could simply toss out ideas that were contrary to my beliefs. It wasn’t until I started to homeschool my children, which coincided with my growing maturity Continue Reading…
December 7, 2022
Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Mother's Education
How to Break Out of the Materialist Mindset

Last week, we talked about having better conversations. Our main focus was on freezing up because we have difficulty explaining ourselves. Today’s post will naturally have an effect on conversations, too, but it’s more than that. This gets personal because we aren’t just confronting a materialist mindset when we are Out There in the World. We were raised in the world and we imbibed not only its good things, but also its poisons. That includes the materialist mindset. It’s inside Continue Reading…
July 6, 2022