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Realistic Charlotte Mason : The Benefits of Short Lessons in the Charlotte Mason Method

The idea of short lessons is often approached with skepticism by parents. I understand this completely, as I was a doubter myself. I have often asked parents this question, “Do you have anything to lose by trying it? If you were to try short lessons and find they did not work for you, couldn’t you just go back to long lessons?” I cannot even count the number of parents who tried this and now rave about short lessons.

Starline Press Independent Learning Curriculum for Grades 3-12

Many homeschooling families appreciate the “old school” correspondence curriculum that was in use before digital technology and the Internet. Starline Press is pleased to offer this still-popular choice to homeschoolers from grades 3 to 12 providing the core curriculum of Math, English/Language Arts (including analysis of news media), Social Studies, (including cultural geography), and Science. And, they also offer all books as E-books.

Reflections on School and Prison

My wife doesn’t allow a television in our home, so when I’m traveling alone, as I often must, temptation sometimes overwhelms me and I find myself indiscriminately channel-surfing for hours, searching for what — I don’t know, perhaps a football game even in March or April, May, June, July, August. It was on such a fruitless mission in April that I paused on the A&E; channel long enough to hear that a documentary about cults was in the offing.

The Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling

Today’s homeschooling is far more about “home” than “school.” Few Americans today have the close-knit family life that so many Americans once had—before compulsory education pulled the children from their parents’ responsibility, beginning in 1852 in Massachusetts .

What Are Gardner’s Original 7 intelligences? What are 8 and 9?

While a parent’s main focus on this topic might be for the benefit of the children, adults gain life skills from knowledge of the multiple intelligences. You can gain career guidance from knowing the main intelligences that you possess. You understand yourself and your spouse more clearly as you analyze your personality and inner self through this prism.

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Realistic Charlotte Mason : The Benefits of Short Lessons in the Charlotte Mason Method

Starline Press Independent Learning Curriculum for Grades 3-12

Reflections on School and Prison

The Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling

What Are Gardner’s Original 7 intelligences? What are 8 and 9?

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