How contrary to popular educational methods would be the idea of leaving a child’s question unanswered; worse yet, leaving them to form wrong opinions? Well it seems that it was no less absurd 115 years ago based on a Parent’s Review article titled Elementary Science-Teaching by one Mary Everest Boole. But it is, in fact, […]
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We recently headed back to a local creek for nature study. There’s so much here that we’ve discovered over the years. Giant water bugs are smaller this time of year. Early last year we wondered what they ate in this creek since there didn’t seem to be anything else of significant size. Then we found
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How often today do we come across children who can’t hold a conversation, can’t sit still, can’t focus? What is our society’s answer? ADHD – medicate! Is this really the answer? In some cases, perhaps, but in so many children? What are the stats now? I think in some states it is 10% or higher.
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I am coming rather late to this treasure of a Parent’s Review article – Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-balanced Mind by E.A. Parish – 98 years late to be exact! More recently, within CM circles it seems to have made its rounds with Nancy Kelly of Sage Parnassus leading a session by
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It is hard to describe how incredibly satisfying it is when you make a new discovery. When a light of truth comes on as a result of your very own digging – it is nothing less than thrilling. I recently had just such a discovery. In YR4, we read both Poor Richard – a biography
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I heard this quote at a business training seminar years ago… No one waxes a rented car The speaker was making a point about the difference between employee mentality and business owner mentality; that, generally speaking, people care more for something, in this case a business, when they are the ones who own it. What
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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