We took a little hike last Sunday… Continuing the homeschool data dump… Twenty years ago when I first started thinking about homeschooling (but had been thinking about education for a long while before, starting when I was 17 and with great excitement read The Lost Tools of Learning for the first time), it seemed much… Read More »
Ask Auntie Leila: How do I educate my children?
It’s a leetle late for me to be offering you homeschooling advice, I know. Yet, even with September freshness — those new books, that fantastic curriculum, those sharp pencils — there might be room for me to throw in my two cents. Honestly, I tried to talk about this in June. But who wants to… Read More »
Homeschooling with lapbooks for the impatient, bookish parent; as well as a book series recommendation.
If it were up to me, homeschooling would be about curling up with a book. I guess you could say that’s my energy level.In particular, I am not into “crafts” or the “crafty” approach. I’m not very hands on. In case you are like this too, I wanted to share one of the very few… Read More »
Let me tell you one thing about order.
So last time when I talked about Order and Wonder, did you get a kind of anxiety attack, as if you thought I was saying that something like this is what I had in mind? Don’t be silly. 🙂 Order means first things first. So… yes, of course, stuff like making sure the kids are… Read More »
Order and Wonder, or the most frequently asked question!
Happy Feast of St. Joseph! I was talking to a young mother while we were waiting during dance class the other day, and as usual the topic turned to homeschooling. “What curriculum do you use?” I have been asked this question so many times in the past almost 20 years… and I really don’t know… Read More »