Winter seems a bit reluctant to let go its grip this year. At the very season when we hope to be getting moving, yearning to burst out from the drag of dull winter sameness, much like the buds we are longing to see burst into flower, we are thwarted by early spring snowstorms and lingering bitter chill. Tending to… Read More The Season for Reading
One day a mom came into my library a little hoarse. “Have you got a cold?” Emily asked sympathetically. “No, I’ve just been reading to my kids for eight hours. They wouldn’t let me quit.” She was not complaining. That same mom recently mourned to me that her children read independently, but she can’t give up reading something aloud… Read More Reading Is Not Just for Moms
We are pleased to announce that the second installment of our Audio Version of Charlotte Mason’s Volume I, “Home Education,” is ready for download! Each portion is one CD in length and will be released throughout this winter and spring. Please visit this link for more information.
When I addressed this subject earlier, I tackled the question, “Is reading any book of any kind good enough?” I concluded that reading is a matter of life and death and that all books are not created equal. The challenge to us as parents and teachers is strengthening this habit of reading and growing in our taste and appetite… Read More Hard Thinking About Easy Reading, Part 3
A week ago, a fellow homeschool librarian from Rogersville, Tennnessee, joined Emily and I for a workshop called Reading Re-Visited: A Re-Evaluation of the Use of Books in the Modern Homeschool. We wanted to provide both a learning time for parents, as well as mid winter encouragement for them. Since reading is necessary to every subject and a dear passion… Read More Ten Books for Parents Who Want to Encourage the Habit of Reading
In the middle of the “deep freeze month” comes the holiday for celebrating love. My husband just read my boys The Story of Valentine by W.P. Hayes. It is a simply told account of some of the true things that are known about the saint, as discovered through the lives of four boys in the days of ancient Rome’s… Read More Why Children Need Love Stories
Today we are pleased to announce that the first installment of our Audio Version of Charlotte Mason’s Volume I, “Home Education,” is ready for download! Each portion is one CD in length and will be released throughout this winter and spring. Please visit this link for more information.
Is there anything that truly surprises us in this high tech world any more? We are so accustomed to the unbelievable becoming reality that we barely react to the latest developments. Shock and amazement have been replaced by a bland response of “cool.” Thus, the announcement of the opening later this year of a book-less library in San Antonio, Texas, is… Read More A Book-less Future?
Ready or not, a new year has begun. It is always an odd sensation to try to grasp the concept that one year of life is closing and another opening as the seconds tick away in the usual daily manner. Happy New Year to you all! Our family left the old year behind by recounting with one another… Read More Resolving to Read Anew
I picked up an old habit this past year that I have had in former years, but have neglected in recent ones: keeping a list of all the books I have read. I find it not only to be a good record for future reference, but a picture of my personal interests and pursuits and… Read More For the Record