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- Finalizing Plans for Fall 2025 June 7, 2025
- Concerning Harry Potter June 7, 2025
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- How Charlotte Mason Saved my Sanity: A Homeschool Mom’s Testimonial May 24, 2025
- Coming July 2025: FAIRY TALE CAMP — Free! May 22, 2025
- FREE EVENT: Charlotte Mason Tells the Why behind the What May 16, 2025
- FREE Sample Classes – Tuesday, January 28, 2025 January 8, 2025
- Book review: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M. Baxter January 1, 2025
- Hinder not the children: a look at Narration December 30, 2024
- Scenes from 2023-24 classes September 15, 2024
- A Child’s Relations with his World July 28, 2024
- 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
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Love Day and Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday coming on the 14th of February this year has brought to my mind the connection between the Gospel — humanity’s fall and separation from her Father and her Groom, and then the rescue and reconciliation by that Groom … Continue reading
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What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths
There are disagreements in the Christian education and parenting world, especially in the homeschool world of which I’ve been a part for two decades, about the exposure to stories of pagan gods and demi-gods and heroes of the various non-Christian … Continue reading
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Art for Art’s Sake
I was just about to write about “For the Love of the Art or the Love of the Utility?” (stay tuned for that), when I see the following Facebook post from my husband with an accompanying video. I’m going to … Continue reading
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Tagged art for art's sake, caring, character, honesty, humanities, truth, truth for beauty's sake
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Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome)
In the past month I have been redesigning and restructuring my blog to facilitate my new ventures since my retirement as a homeschool mom. It’s still a work in progress, particularly with my course descriptions. In case you came here … Continue reading
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Plans for fall 2023 classes
I am currently working on course descriptions, scheduling days and times, and lesson planning for my Story, Rhyme & Song classes that will be held at my studio in Laurel. The information about the classes will be found under the … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary music, elementary story time, folk songs, nursery rhymes, preschool music, preschool story time
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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
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Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, James, wisdom
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