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The Next Book Every Parent Should Read

Have you ever classified yourself as “not a math person”? Have you ever heard your child say that about themselves? If so, I have the perfect book for you.

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Preparing For Classical School

“What can we do in the meantime?” This is a fair and important question to ask; families who have really seen something in classical education know that it offers things that they want in their children’s lives right now. They know that classical education deliberately challenges students, so they want to get their children prepared for success.

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8 Questions Every Parent Should Ask On A Tour

In my experience, parents can tell a lot about a school from just a few simple questions. I’ve compiled a list here of essential questions to ask on a tour - they are also some of my favorites to answer.

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Starting the Year Strong: Habits for a Classical Home Life

There are some things that can be helpful specifically for classical students to start the year off on the right foot. Used in the long-term, these habits will help to support and foster a truly classical life at home, month after month.

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Why Children Thrive Without Technology

How much access should students have to computers? How much screen time is too much screen time? Why use pencil and paper anymore? Should schools really have an allocated “technology” budget?

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Habits for Student Writers: Writing as Sport

I grant that the comparison is strange (even to the point of being funny), but, for me, it has often made the difference between writing well and failing to write altogether.

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Habits for Student Writers: How to Write Sustainably

Does your student hate to write? Does she fear it? Does she put it off until disaster impends and then sprint miserably through it?

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Habits for Student Writers: Where and When to Write

Writing essays causes students a great deal of stress. And the work is scarcely easier for parents, who often feel their children’s worries even more than the children do themselves.

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Inspiring wonder in your home

From an academic standpoint, wonder is inexplicably valuable. Students who possess wonder have a thirst for knowledge that will carry them beyond their secondary education.

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The first 3 steps to supporting your classical student at home:

“What can we do to help our child at home?” This is a question I get a lot - and it’s a fair one!