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Slouching mediocrity: I already KNOW how to write…
Parental angst about writing instruction for their homeschooled children fills my email inbox. Somehow parents know that math and science and history are SO much easier to deal with: Answers are either...
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Home Schooling in High School means pursuing excellence well
“This is why we home school.” I hear that phrase a lot, and I’ve said it myself. We choose to home school for so many reasons. Some families are athletic or musical, and they need more flexible...
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Homeschooling with excellence means seeing reality
“My daughter is extremely gifted,” a mother informed me. (I wish I had a dollar for every time I hear that one!) I waited for her to go on. “No really. She tests as ‘profoundly gifted.’” That’s...
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Homeschooling is not unschooling
“Just let your child follow his interests!” say unschooling advocates to unsuspecting young parents. As free spirits, not wanting traditional schooling, some naive individuals will unplug from the grid...
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The Why of Biblical Worldview Homeschooling
“Why” for the younger child When the Pilgrims migrated to the New World, they did so because of their faith. They were persecuted in Europe for their stance on the truth of scripture, and they wanted...
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Biblical Worldview Homeschooling for Teens
I don’t know what I believe. Six in ten young people will leave the church for an extended period of time, according to a Barna study from 2012. Kids who grew up in the church, spent time in Sunday...
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Biblical Worldview for Teens: Watching, Reading, Listening
“That’s my online stuff. It has nothing to do with school or with church.” So goes the teenage (and the adult) mind. A wide gulf separates churchy stuff from school stuff and from media. Never they...
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Biblical Worldview Apologetics for Teens
Teens like to argue. Have you noticed? Some find it invigorating to argue with people who don’t have the same beliefs. Some will try to argue the superiority of their own belief systems. Some will...
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Homeschooling with a Biblical Worldview: How?
If you are like me, you grew up in public schooling, because “back then” Christian or home schools were not very popular or widespread. There, we learned to separate out our course work. This is math,...
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Classical Homeschooling: A definition
“The failure of our educational system goes beyond what they fail to teach. It includes what they do teach, or rather indoctrinate, and the graduates they send out into the world, incapable of...
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Classical Homeschooling at the upper levels
In my last blog I touched on the parroting aspect of the grammar level of classical schooling. If you were to continue schooling your child this way all the way through high school, you will have...
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The Pitfalls of Classical Homeschooling
You’ve done your homework, made your preparations, and purchased all the Great Books you plan to read during this year of Classical Homeschooling. What could possibly go wrong? In previous blogs I...
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Homeschool: Plan the High School Career
In my years of advising and teaching, I have met some parents who seemed to be surprised that they had older teenagers who actually needed to finish high school with enough credits to enter college....
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Homeschooling Momma Bears
What are you teaching your children? I called the home of a student I had been tutoring to tell the parents that their son had plagiarized his paper. Never entering into these conversations lightly,...
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The Perfect Parenting guidelines…do not exist
An old friend likes to say, “I was the perfect parent–until I started having children.” You know the story. The idealistic 20-something sees children acting up in the grocery store and thinks to...
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Engage the culture: study the news
On 9/11 all of America watched with a mixture of horror, outrage, and deep sadness the events that unfolded. My husband was stuck in another city on a business trip and could not get home because all...
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Book list from 2014, books planned for 2015
While I love to read, 2014 was not a year for lots of books for me. I am lukewarm about several that I read, but other books did impress me–and I am picky about literature. Good literature only whets...
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Announcing Revised Edition of Biblical Worldview Rhetoric
It took 15 years for the first edition of Biblical Worldview Rhetoric to become a reality, so announcing a revised edition is nearly completed, just 6 years after the first, should feel practically...
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Second Edition coming soon! Why is this book called Biblical Worldview Rhetoric? An essential aspect of our upcoming rhetoric text is a study of worldview. This text guides students through an...
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Careful writing cares for your audience
Not many high school students would think about it this way, but careful writing communicates respect. Good grammar, spelling, and punctuation are every bit as important as answering a writing prompt...
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