Articles tagged Children

Thoughts on the Letter ‘C’

by Aaron
Thursday, 29 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Thursday, 29 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
Original Post Date: August 14, 2012
I would like to take some time in this article revisiting what should be a very familiar story from the Bible, the...

You Are Not a Bad Person, Allison Is Wrong
I am hesitant to write a response to the recent Slate.com article, “If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person,” for a few reasons. First, it is entirely possible that the article was meant to be satirical. If this is the case, the author is quite...

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...

What Shakespeare Knew about Perpetual Motion and the Busy Monster

by Jen
Monday, 20 May, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Monday, 20 May, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
I recently asked my mom, a longtime Challenge tutor, what she planned to do with her summer, teasing that she would be at a loss for what to do once her students were gone. She replied that she thought summer leisure time was a myth, adding, “The time always gets eaten...

Joy at Every Phase

by David
Friday, 11 January, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 11 January, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Early on in my parenting experience, I determined to enjoy every stage of the process. That was after I discovered the joys of unraveling the mysteries of lactation with a newborn and operating on four hours of sleep. People often told us, “Enjoy your children while...