education
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The State of Modern Education
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Revisiting the HP Dilemma: What’s A Parent to do?
I hesitated writing this post for my friend because almost every single discussion I’ve seen or been in online about HP eventually devolved into personal attacks. There are good arguments on both sides of the divide, so it pays to… Continue reading
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“Do The Next Thing”: A Curriculum
Image: Neil Cooper “Classical relaxed unschooling” sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But it describes our CURRENT style of homeschooling so well. Notice I said CURRENT; I’m not the same homeschooler I used to be when we got started 18+ years… Continue reading
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Cultivating the Habit of Reading in Your Children
Image: Aaron Burden One of my favorite quotes about reading is Ray Bradbury’s “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” We want to raise children who read because we know that… Continue reading
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How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum Part 2: BOOKS!
Image: Thought Catalog In Part 1, I talked about “my process” for designing my child’s homeschooling curriculum. Because we’ve been homeschooling for roughly 18 years now, my go-to resources will look a little different from a new homeschooler’s, so if you’re… Continue reading
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How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum
Image: Thought Catalog It’s that time of year — the most exciting, for every DIY homeschooler mom!! It’s curriculum-designing time. We’ve been homeschooling for ~18 years so I’m way more confident now than I was years ago when I first tried to do… Continue reading
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What Nino Read (November 2015 Update)
Religion, History, Geography: The Reader’s Digest Children’s Atlas of the World On the Mayflower If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Favorite Norse Myths Thomas A. Edison (COFA) Abner Doubleday (COFA) If You Lived at the Time… Continue reading
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Rethinking College 3)
Our Declaration of Independence says life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are our God-given rights, and yet we make many choices today that seem to invalidate that claim. Our government isn’t exactly protecting these rights any more either, but… Continue reading
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Helicopter Parenting, Hypersexualization and College Readiness (Rethinking College 2)
In my previous post, I suggested that perhaps college is no longer the best way to prepare our children for life and career, but while hypersexualized youth is a big problem, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In addition… Continue reading
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College and Hypersexualized Kids (Rethinking College 1)
We send our kids to college because we want them to become positive contributors to society. To do that, they need to reach a certain level of maturity in the different areas of their lives, sexuality being only one of… Continue reading
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