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Reflections on Faerie Stories: All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Prince Darling

If Prince Darling has one weakness, it is that it tries to be good at everything. There are so many lessons that it is hard to know where to begin {though, arguably, the beginning would work ahem}. My favorite faerie stories tend to be singular, to have only one lesson in mind. But if those stories be nutritious snacks, then Prince Darling is a holiday feast. We have room in the calendar for both, do we not? So, let’s take a bit of Continue Reading…
November 21, 2013
Reflections on Faerie Stories

I’m planning to begin a series on fairy tales. There is so much debate that often goes on about fairy tales — ought we read them to our children? ought we not? — that I think we often lose sight of the tales themselves. In my opinion, some of them have great value, while some of them are merely interesting, and others are simply not worth our time. My hope is to point out some of the best tales and afterthink Continue Reading…
November 14, 2013
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: Christians, Charlotte Mason, and Fairy Tales by Wendi Capehart (Day 13)

This post is reprinted with permission from Wendi Capehart and AmblesideOnline. A big thanks to Wendi for contributing this to the 31 Days of Charlotte Mason Series! Wendi Capehart serves on the Advisory Board for AmblesideOnline. She is the mother of seven children, grandmother of 5 (possibly 6 by the time this goes live), unofficial sometime foster mama to two, and the wife of one longsuffering man. She began homeschooling the year her oldest began first grade, in 1988. She read For Continue Reading…
October 13, 2013
Books & Reading
Don’t Forget to Slay the Dragon

For we are His workmanship,created in Christ Jesus for good works,which God prepared beforehandso that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 Some of us are born into trying times. I, for one, often wish I had lived during the latter part of King Arthur’s reign. This would be right after his defeat of the pagans, and right before the big battle in which he was killed. The Kingdom of Camelot, filled with virtuous knighthood, equity symbolized by round tables, Continue Reading…
July 27, 2012