Nervous giggles, tingly fingers, twitchy eyelids, trembling lips, racing heart, midsection butterflies are all symptoms of a truly legitimate fear: giving a speech in front of other people. Be honest. You have felt the exact same fear at some point in your life (maybe you still do), and your homeschool child will follow in your footsteps unless you start now to Read More→
Sometimes you need to know when to hire an expert and when to make the project yourself. Experts usually cost lots of money, and often, you could have done the same work at home and had more fun. I once paid a seamstress to create custom window treatments for my living room, and yes, they look professional, but honestly, I know how to sew window treatments Read More→
Young kids have more self-motivation and daring than we adults give them credit. This weekend, the New York Times ran an article (Read All About It! Kids Vex Titans!) about a labor strike in 1899 that “unsettled the empires of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.” Thousands of kids (yes, look at that image…they are young kids!) used “muscle and wit” to interrupt paper delivery Read More→
When you plan your homeschool curriculum each summer, do you approach knowledge as a bunch of isolated facts to teach…math facts, science facts, English facts, and social studies facts? The vast majority of traditional public schools customarily teach using a facts-based approach, so you may find yourself innocently drawn to this style since that’s the way you were educated. Read More→
Classical education, born in ancient Greece, flourished for nearly a thousand years in the West until the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. Paideia (“pie-DAY-uh”), the Greek word for instruction or discipline, referred to the process of forming an enlightened, mature mind. Learning was the path to a higher nature through the exploration of Read More→
