The Power of Habit in Your Homeschool

4ea17a8acc6db

“The habits of the child produce the character of the man… every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.” –Charlotte Mason At the end of the day do you ever feel like you’ve spentcontinue reading

What to Do When An Impossible Day Shows Up

LifeMessy

It is inevitable that some days will just seem like a struggle. Knowing that, you’d think we would be well prepared to weather the storm and come out on the other side better for it instead of stressed and overwhelmed. For most, it’s not that easy. When those impossible days arrive, they often catch uscontinue reading

Inspiring a Love for Reading

BoyReadingDog-300x187

Many parents don’t read much and are often mistaken with their child’s ability to converse at a level deeper than baby talk or childishness. Unfortunately this is the complete opposite of what children need in order to learn and advance in language skills. The sooner you begin talking, reading and even singing to your baby,continue reading

Let the Classics Do the Teaching

ReadClassics-300x193

As you begin living An Inspired Education you will be creating a family intellectual life. This creates a well-roundness in the family unit as you live together, now you will also be thinking together. A natural progression of this will be reaching out to those around you and sharing this intellectual life until it reverberates outcontinue reading

Give Them Incentives

photo (6)

There are many ways to make learning fun and sometimes we must use put on our creative hats! Here’s a great way to make reading fun! Create a chart with landmarks. We created a train track with incentives along the way. As the child reaches one of the incentive points he or she gets tocontinue reading

Education is the Goal

Woman smiling at girl

  ‘The idea is to educate, not follow anyone’s schedule about when something should be studied.’ – Ray Drouillard