As the new school year encroaches upon the last, lingering days of summer, it’s easy to be overwhelmed at the prospect of new lesson plans and new students, at long days and assessments galore. It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia of planning to teach, thus losing sight of the big picture. So […]
The following is taken from this month’s Mere Motherhood newsletter, the email companion to the Mason Jar Podcast.
If you know anything about the universe you know that if you win an award for the pursuit of wisdom and virtue you are going to get a chance to continue the pursuit. A few weeks ago, on a Friday night in July, I won that award. The Paideia Prize. Saturday morning I ended up
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By the time I had Timothy, my oldest, in 1984, I had already spent three years reading about homeschooling so when he turned four I was chafing to get started. We were already using the morning to review his Awana verses and read nursery rhymes and picture books, but I was anxious to start reading
