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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
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Other Thoughts
Little House in the Big Pandemic

In Which I Write You a Letter on Day Twelve of Quarantine Hello, friend — It feels simultaneously redundant, obvious, and deeply necessary to begin this note by saying: what strange times we’re living in. I have A Lot of Thoughts. I’ll spare you most of them, but there is one thing on my mind to tell you about. A few days ago, I was scanning headlines when I saw an article about pregnancy during coronavirus. I am pregnant, as Continue Reading…
April 1, 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, Mother's Education
Charlotte Mason’s Six Types of Lies … and Their Cures

My local Charlotte Mason book club is currently reading through Parents and Children. (This is the study guide I’m working on — it should be out in Fall of 2020, I think.) I’ve read it a couple times before, but it’s been a while, and my children are so much older than last time that I feel like I’m reading it for the first time all over again. Last week, we discussed (among other things) Charlotte Mason’s thoughts on lying. Continue Reading…
December 9, 2019