I had three books on my list to read this summer (besides reading Oliver Twist aloud to my girls). I enjoyed all three: The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity Meg Meeker, M.D. I appreciated the unique perspective of a medical doctor. She speaks extensively about the competition we imagine with other…
For all of my homeschool teaching years I have taken the chronological approach to teaching history. Before I had children, when I was teaching my siblings, I was drawn to the idea that history should be taught in the order it happened. As a child I always had trouble figuring out the timeline of history….
I love music. My undergraduate degree is in Music. As a parent, very early on, I decided that music would be a major part of my children’s education. We began music classes at age 4 or 5 and had a unique approach to piano practice. Our girls’ morning chores went, and still go, something like…
