Articles tagged Jennifer Courtney

‘New World Echoes’ wins kids’ short story prize

Southern Pines, North Carolina—“New World Echoes,” a spring release from Classical Conversations MultiMedia, has won the Children’s Short Stories category in the Independent Press Awards competition.
The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the...

‘New World Echoes’ provides family reading fun

Southern Pines, NC—Fables, tall tales and poetry can be found in every culture in every era, and they can tell us much about who we are as a people and as individuals. Following hard on the heels of its very successful “Old World Echoes” last year, Classical...

New CC book revolutionizes study of art history

What Classical Conversations’ book, “Cartography,” did for geography last year, its new book, “Marvelous to Behold,” now does for art history.
“Marvelous to Behold” provides a classical approach to art history with full-page, high-resolution images from a dozen...

‘Oh, the places you will go’ with CC’s new cartography book

Good books can take you to places you’ve never been before, both real and imagined, and times past, present and future. Classics like “The Bronze Bow,” “Carry on, Mr. Bowditch,” and “Starship Troopers” can take you to 1st-century Galilee under the Romans, to sea in the...

Dear Tired Mamas
by Jennifer
Wednesday, 03 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 03 May, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Dear tired mamas:
This is a hard time of year, especially for mamas of teens. Believe me, I know. After twelve years of Classical Conversations, my son finished up Challenge IV this week. At times, it seemed as if we would never make it. Then, in the twinkling of an...