We know wisdom comes from God, scripture and good counsel. I’ve also heard someone put it this way: wisdom comes from two places – your mistakes, or the mistakes of others. I providentially landed on this MUST READ post over at The Common Room tonight. And I do prefer to learn from the mistakes of […]
Kristine emailed me last night asking if I was following Challies’ latest posts titled: The Weaker, The Stronger, The Homeschooler, a series of posts based on Romans 14:1-12. The posts discuss Christian Homeschoolers, Public Schoolers and Private Schoolers and their attitudes towards one another’s educational choices for their children. Apparently, there are some less than
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I had hoped to post here about our monthly meeting topic of Rigor. Unfortunately, we were hit by the stomach flu and missed the discussion, which I heard was wonderful. We also had a dead rat, discovered by its lovely stench, that had been festering in the wall behind our downstairs bathroom removed this week.
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Michael Farris, a United States constitutional lawyer, president of HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense Association), founder of Patrick Henry College, and Father of ten children, has been defending homeschooling families and their ability to teach their children at home since 1983. He is asking for our help in a Strategic Plan to thwart the efforts of
Here are the results of a New Study of Homeschoolers in College posted on HSLDA’s site. I think you’ll be encouraged by the results. So in reality, the average homeschooler is spending $500 to educate each of their own children, on top of contributing taxes to the public education their children aren’t receiving, while achieving
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We are currently reading ‘The Golden Touch’, the story of King Midas in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book at bedtime in hopes of being able to enjoy most of the YR2 ‘free reads’ (books read at any pace, any time, without narration; described as “books no child should miss”). From the looks of it and
We saw this very unusual looking wasp today at the Niguel Botanical Preserve. The picture is not mine, unfortunately, I didn’t have a camera with me. © Copyright John Ascher, 2006-2010 It was one of those “What on earth is that!?!” sightings. Its thread-like waist was just so unusual, I stopped to get a closer
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This was my first year attending the Childlight Conference. It was an amazing experience and there is much to tell, but for this post, I must tell you some of what Carroll Smith said on Thursday morning in discussing A Framework for a Mason Curriculum. I am hoping they will make the mp3 available immediately
Hello again. I know it has been months since my last post here. I have found posting on my own blogs, as well as maintaining my role as wife, mother, teacher and household manager has kept me up pretty late every night. Most of the time, I just couldn’t seem to manage one more post.
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At our local CM meeting this month we discussed Self Education, which Charlotte Mason wrote about in the first chapter of Vol. 6. For the sake of brevity, really, I will try, I will highlight a few of my favorite quotes and say just a few things: The gist of it, I believe, is that