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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
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Health Issues? It’s Okay to Adjust Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool Schedule

We’ve had a lot of appointments lately, and I do mean a lot. Last week, we had thirteen. Granted, sometimes multiple appointments for multiple children were at the same office, so we weren’t driving all over the place (meaning: it could have been worse), but still. It’s been hard to fit in all the things that I have in my perfectly-laid plans from summer. One thing I realized is that once per week, we really need to have a set Continue Reading…
September 17, 2019
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Evolution of a Charlotte Mason Homeschool Schedule

Last week, we began our thirteenth official year of homeschooling — my oldest child’s senior year. It’s a weird thing to look back on the process, now that it’s almost complete, and see how things changed along the way. One big thing that changed was schedules and scheduling, and I thought I’d share how things morphed and evolved along the way. I definitely didn’t have a long view when we started out. While I knew things were always changing, I Continue Reading…
August 27, 2019
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Doubling Down on Simplicity (Some Thoughts on Homeschool Planning)

Complexity … needs to be countered by simplicity.– Nassim Nicholas Taleb Like many business-type books, The Black Swan can be helpful to a homeschool mom if she couples her reading with imagination and a generous dose of extrapolation. One particularly helpful concept in the book is that of a “complex domain.” Homeschooling clearly fits his definition: A complex domain is characterized by the following: there is a great degree of interdependence between its elements, both temporal (a variable depends on Continue Reading…
August 5, 2019