“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Room to breathe
This post isn’t about fine arts as much as about creating the space needed to reflect on the goodness, beauty, and truth we seek to instill. Growing up, this was about the point of summer where the boredom really began to set in. In the olden days before video games (well, we had an Atari, […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Handicrafts
Since the beginning of our homeschooling journey, I’ve always been a bit gun-shy of crafts. When the kids were younger, it wasn’t that big of an issue, because preschool arts and crafts are about the level of my skill. But there are a lot of grotesquely creative homeschooling moms. Their craft projects original, interesting, and […]
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The problem with the factory setting
We are the brand of homeschoolers that have permanently rejected the public school model. There are homeschoolers who prefer homeschooling to public schools, but make their educational choices year by year. For a variety of reasons and a couple of big ones, we’ve ruled out public education entirely for our family. I have two big […]
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A Philosophy of Education
I’m at a youth retreat with my daughter, and I’m posting this from my phone. Isn’t technology great? Anyway, you’re getting meat, not fluff, but it isn’t my meat. I’m reading Charlotte Mason’s Original Homeschooling Series Volume 6:Towards A Philosophy of Education, and I’m pretty sure I’ll end up highlighting the whole book before I’m […]
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Preparing for the unknown
Next year, my oldest child will be in 8th grade, which means I have one year to prepare to homeschool a high school student. Homeschooling through high school brings up all sorts of anxieties, not only because of the challenges of high school, but because you also have to prepare both your child for college–mentally, […]
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Missing the point
Jon Acuff is a big encourager. That’s what he does professionally. He writes and speaks on how to dream big and accomplish your goals. It’s pretty cool. One way to encourage people is through stories and analogies. Like this one. Did you read it? It’s a great story to illustrated a point: set crazy, outside […]
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Economics has consequences
A few months ago, I reviewed the curriculum, “Economics for Everybody,” a thoroughly biblical study of economics. Now the publishers have condensed the 12 hours of video presentations by R.C. Sproul, Jr into a two-hour long presentation called “Economics Has Consequences.” It is being streamed for free on Youtube and Vimeo for this month only. […]
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An Amoral Education
The outrage du jour is news from a small Texas town of shenanigans going on in the local high school: students dressing up in burkas, calling the 9/11 terrorists “freedom fighters”, and the Tea Party patriots (of 1773 — not the new guys) terrorists. I saw the story posted on facebook by several of my […]
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About education
A few days ago there was a rather disturbing report that U.S. schools would be encouraged to replace books like Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird with more practical informational texts like Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency. (Okay, I’ve never been a huge fan of Catcher […]
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Piracy and learning
For the next two years, we’ll be studying American History using a literature approach. Next week we’ll be studying pirates, specifically their activity along the North American coast. We’ve plundered the library of pirate books and commandeered “Muppet Treasure Island.” I’m ready with maps, and crafts, and buried treasure. Look, I even have my own […]
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