We’ve have been using a Charlotte Mason approach to our home school since the beginning. As my children age, we are making the transition from oral to written narrations. Here is a written narration by my second daughter who was 11 years old at the time of writing. I have made no corrections to her . . . → Read More: A Written Narration – World War Two
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A few months ago I subscribed to a blog by a mother of five who writes about how she loves parenting and doesn’t feel that staying home with her children is a sell-out of her feminism. As someone who has struggled with feeling like such a sell-out I thought the blog would be encouraging. So . . . → Read More: Feeling inadequate “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut It would be nice to finish the renos, but I’m off to declutter and clean! The children went for their biannual dental visits this morning. When I was a kid I dreaded the dentist – the smell, the screaming, the pain – but my children actually look forward to this event. Of course nowadays there doesn’t seem to be as many chemicals and the ones they use are bubblegum flavoured, . . . → Read More: Dental Visits |
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