-
-
-
Recent Posts
- Carrying Aunt Karen Out July 8, 2024
- Love Day and Ash Wednesday February 14, 2024
- What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths February 10, 2024
- To Be Enchanted By Story November 11, 2023
- Kay’s Story, Rhyme, & Song Interview. 15 October 2023 October 16, 2023
- Art for Art’s Sake August 6, 2023
- Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more) August 2, 2023
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
- And Grace Will Lead Us Home February 25, 2023
- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
Tags
- caring
- character
- Charlotte Mason
- children are born persons
- commitment
- correction
- corruption
- discipline
- fact-checking
- friendship
- God
- greed
- grief
- history
- honesty
- humility
- images
- imagination
- integrity
- Jack
- James
- Jesus
- keeping my sanity
- life is a mist
- love
- marriage
- metaphors
- mindlessness
- narration
- nobility
- Our Island Story
- reading metaphorically
- remembering
- security
- sentimentality
- socialism
- stories will save the world
- story
- trisomy-18
- truth
- Virginia Grace
- vocal music
- war
- wisdom
- zeal for learning
Categories
Read Jack’s Novel!
Tag Archives: children are born persons
He Went to My School!
I want to tell you a homeschool success story about a perfectly normal student who was born ready to learn, and turned into an amazing young man—under the tutelage of an imperfect and inexperienced homeschool teacher. (That’s me.) When my … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, James, wisdom
Comments Off on He Went to My School!
On “Education is an Atmosphere”
I’ve been taking a Saturday morning class with Karen Glass on In Vital Harmony, a book about Charlotte Mason and her 20 Principles, and which Karen authored. I really need to blog through each chapter of In Vital Harmony, but … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, classroom environment, discipline, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, educational instruments, home environment, honesty, integrity, school environment, wisdom
Comments Off on On “Education is an Atmosphere”
Charlotte Mason: Way Beyond Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips
There is the Courage of our opinions. By opinions I do not mean the loosely taken up catchwords of the moment, those things which ‘everybody says,’ and with which it is rather agreeable than otherwise to startle our less advanced … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, educational philosophy, honesty, humility, integrity, life to the full, made in His image
Comments Off on Charlotte Mason: Way Beyond Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips
On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace
This post is sort of what I planned for this day of remembering Virginia Grace Pelham (February 3, 2006 ~ February 24, 2006), but with the death yesterday, February 1, of my friend Wendi Capehart, who was already a part … Continue reading
Posted in Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged all lives matter, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, gratitude, grief, honesty, i am pro-life, life is a mist, providence, trisomy-18, truth, Virginia Grace, wisdom
Comments Off on On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace