Articles by author: Beth Watson
Homeschooling Through Sickness
by Beth
Friday, 14 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 14 March, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
As many of you now know, we are expecting our fifth child this summer. Yay! As amazingly lovely as babies are, pregnancy can be just as strongly terrible for me—at least in the beginning and then again a little at the end. Besides being a physical battle for me to...
Book Review: Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
by Beth
Friday, 28 February, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 28 February, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Were you classically educated? Me neither! I have so much to learn! And I have been doing it through reading about classical education. I finished reading Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin by Tracy Lee Simmons today. Yay! This book was handed out...
What I Learned from The Question
by Beth
Friday, 17 January, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life
Friday, 17 January, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life
If you have read The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, you will quickly understand how The Question: Teaching Your Child the Essentials of Classical Education is the follow-up. As Leigh Bortins introduced us to the grammar stage in The...
A Day in the Life of the Watsons
by Beth
Friday, 06 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Friday, 06 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Raise your hand if every day is homeschooling utopia with your family. No? No hands raised? None here either!
One of my most favorite things about my group of friends is no matter what kind of day I have had with my children, if I tell my friends, at least one of them...
My Favorite Sources for Really Good Books
by Beth
Friday, 01 November, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 01 November, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust,
He knew no more that he was poor,
Or that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy ways
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings.
- Emily Dickinson,
The Poems of...