Dread the end of summer?
It’s the Monday of a new month. A fresh week in a fresh month! For many of us, August is a month of either beginning school or getting ready
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Imitation as Learning Style
Imitation is a natural and powerful learning tool. In classical homeschooling imitation, children copy speech, actions, and thinking patterns.
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Virtue as the Goal of Education
You're more classical than you think if you are educating your children for their moral development so they can live the Good Life.
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Homeschool Hits & Misses
A record of our 2013-2014 school year. It is tempting, this time of year, to skip right to discussing next year’s plans and leave this year we are
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When a Week Doesn't Go as Planned
Last week was our break week from school. During break week I try to do extra housekeeping, extra little projects like switching out the kids’ clothes for the season change,
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Repetition, The Best Teacher
Learning anything requires the practice of repetition; repeating good things are a feature, not a bug, of the way the world and people work.
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All of Life Is Repentance
Education and homemaking alike require continually turning away from sin and back toward faithful obedience, trusting God with the results.
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A 10-year-old Boy's Top 5 Books of 2013
In the recent survey, one reader commented that she’d enjoy seeing more book recommendations for elementary boys. I know first-hand how difficult it is to keep voracious younger
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Living from a state of rest
Cum dignitate otium, or Rest The Education is for Life Series This principle was another where I had to do my own searching for an applicable Latin motto. I could
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Daily Faithfulness
The Latin motto festina lente, make haste slowly, is solid wisdom we need not only in our homeschools, but also in all of life.
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Choose what is good.
Virtue grows through repeated action, repentance, and perseverance, not through maintaining an image of having everything together.
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The Simple Life.
The principle of multum non multa means choosing depth over distraction. Don't manage dozens of tasks; focus your energy on what matters most.
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