Even though I was homeschooled as a child and have had the advantage of my mother’s advice, I have also found gleaning wisdom from other veteran homeschooling / unschooling moms, as well as influential writers in the education arena, to be helpful. The following books are the ones that I found to be the most …
March is here, spring is upon us and I realized I never documented the our learning adventures we had over the past few months! While we had a mild winter (with one big snow), it seemed to drag on quite a bit. Possibly because we were passing around a virus the entire month of February…. …
I can’t believe it’s the end of another year already! 2023 was another year that I did not participate in any reading challenges nor set a goal of reading a specific amount of books. I did have one goal of increasing the amount of fiction read and decreasing the amount of nonfiction read, which I …
If you spend time with homeschoolers that follow or appreciate the Charlotte Mason educational philosophy, you will eventually hear the phrase “mother culture” and may wonder what it means. According to Karen Andreola, Mother Culture is “the skillful art with which a mother looks after the ways of her household and herself.” I have found the …
