Articles tagged Inspiration
Close the Door!
by Admin
Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Do you feel like you are reminding your family to do the same thing over and over?
This one closet door in our house is a good example.
I have given verbal directions. I have used a variety of different notes. I have used an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and taped it a...
Falling in Love at Practicum
by Cara
Thursday, 22 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 22 June, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Every summer I fall in love all over again with Classical Conversations. It’s not as if I have ever fallen out of love. But each summer Practicum season I am wooed back to the secret places of the heart in homeschooling. I always come away with a richer understanding...
Pentecost and Its Role in the Art of Dialectic
by Shelly
Friday, 23 September, 2016
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
Friday, 23 September, 2016
categories: Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
Have you ever been surprised by something? Most of us have: a slamming door, unexpected news, an old idea you suddenly see in a new light. In Dorothy Sayers’s essay “The Mind of the Maker,” she writes about the experience of a student who is surprised by a new...
Letter to a New CC Mom (continued)
by Brandy
Tuesday, 17 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Tuesday, 17 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
What am I going to neglect and what am I going to pursue?
My last article left us with this probing question as we pondered Leigh Bortins’s words…
...And I see frustrated parents who have over-estimated their high school child’s elementary education, realize they have...
His Strength Made Perfect in Weakness
by Brandy
Friday, 12 September, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 12 September, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps (Proverbs 16:9, KJV).
Homeschooling humbles me.
I am inconsistent. I am a perfectionist. I am selfish. I am distracted when I need to focus. I am focused when I need to be distracted. I have poor time...