Articles dated June 2013
The Three Rules of Work
Honestly, who wants to read about work in the middle of summer? Summer is for reading in the hammock, sipping sweet tea under a ceiling fan, and feeling the juice of a homegrown tomato running down your chin. However, when I read that Albert Einstein once posited that...
The Creative Mind and the Structure of the Soul
Do you have a creative outlook? Do you confine yourself to uncreative activities? What about your teaching? Is it creative or administrative? Does it nourish creativity in the souls and minds of your students and children?
Judging by the haste with which the arts are...
Why You Should Attend a 3-Day Parent Practicum
Our family joined a Classical Conversations community in February of 2012, and we did not have an opportunity to attend a 3-Day Parent Practicum prior to joining. When Practicum season rolled around the next spring, I did not feel that I needed to attend a Practicum,...
Stop Trying to Fix Me and Just Listen!
by Matt
Thursday, 20 June, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 20 June, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
You’re a fixer. You may not be very good with your hands or with mechanics or with electronics, but you’re a fixer. When your wife or child comes to you with a problem or a complaint, you don’t respond by just feeling their pain, you offer them solutions. It’s what...
Into Eternity: Homeschooling through High School
by Kate
Wednesday, 19 June, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 19 June, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Almost every year since we became members of our local homeschool support group over a decade ago, my family has attended a high school graduation ceremony. It is always a blessing to watch parents—and sometimes entire families—ascend the stage, and to watch fathers...