This year should be blessedly normal. I’ll have three normal Ambleside Online years, no combining. My 12 year old will do year 7 (something between full and lite), my 10 year old will be in year 5, and my 8 year old is starting year 3. My daughter, who is 4, will turn 5 in… Continue reading Planning Our Homeschool Year: Books and Curriculum
I am honored to host the Charlotte Mason blog carnival. This month’s topic is Education, the Science of Relations, found in chapter 17 of volume 3. We’ll start with two posts from Letters from Nebby, first, we need to avoid emotional manipulation. This is a huge issue for our culture, not just children but adults are subject… Continue reading Education, the Science of Relations: We are Educated by Our Intimacies (CM Blog Carnival)
The upcoming blog carnival is about chapter 17 of Charlotte Mason’s third book: the science of relations. On what does Fulness of Living depend?––What is education after all? An answer lies in the phrase––Education is the Science of Relations. I do not use this phrase, let me say once more, in the Herbartian sense––that things are… Continue reading Why I Chose Ambleside Online