the road to inspired learning
If I could choose only one staple for my homeschool, it would be read aloud time. I know my boys are better readers, better writers, better thinkers, and better people because of the time we invested in reading books together. I hope to inspire you as well with this list of 101 reasons to read […]
Before I had children, I had grandiose dreams for my motherhood: a squeaky clean house where art and play were always colliding; a disposition that never resembled stressed, impatient, or borderline psychotic, and idealist visions of read-aloud time including hours and hours of cuddling up on the couch together. And then I had children. I didn't keep the house perfect. My […]
We're currently reading Pollyanna, and Pollyanna's response to her new music lesson-reading lesson-cooking lesson-sewing lesson schedule got me thinking. "Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to–to live." "To live, child! What do you mean? As if you weren't living all the […]