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Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Wonder, Work, Wisdom, and Worship: Balancing Science

Parents and teachers responsible for the education of children have a lot to balance. Ephesians 6:4 says, “Parents do not exasperate your children, but raise them up in the training and admonition of the LORD.” Many Christian educators have commented on the phrase paideiea Kuriou, the education of the LORD, in the second part of this verse. But perhaps we underappreciate the first part of the verse, “Parents (or teachers acting on their behalf) do not exasperate your children…” Attending Continue Reading…
September 3, 2015
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
AmblesideOnline Year 7 Living Science: Why We Loved It {A Curriculum Review}

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] feel weird doing this review because you all know we use AmblesideOnline and love it. But I’ve gotten a number of emails asking about the new science component in the upper years. Is it really okay to do science without a modern science textbook? That’s really the gist of it. So let’s talk. This was AO’s first year offering a living science curriculum for any of the upper grades, so I guess you could say we were guinea pigs, though Continue Reading…
June 24, 2015
Home Education
Using Signs & Seasons with Charlotte Mason Families

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s discussed in my previous guest post, Charlotte Mason taught that education should include time spent outdoors, closely observing nature. For most families, this typically includes studying plants and animals, but likely does not include methodical observations of the sky. In our contemporary culture, astronomy is mostly ignored, treated as an optional topic of specialty interest, an “indoor” activity consisting of reading books about the solar system and outer space, with nothing to observe. One does not often hear of Continue Reading…
May 6, 2015
Other Thoughts
Seven Quick Takes on 60th Anniversaries, Free Audio, New Couches, and More!

:: 1 :: Saturday was my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary party. It was so much fun, looking at old photos of them from across the years. My father made the astounding revelation that he had known them for 45 years, and been their son-in-law for 43 of them, and my mind almost couldn’t fathom that he met them when they were my age. It reminded me of that moment in Understood Betsy when Betsy realizes the desks in her schoolroom Continue Reading…
May 1, 2015