Encouraging, Informing and Connecting the Homeschool Community
From the category archives:
“In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfies
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
the grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all,
Flowers in the summer
Fires in the fall! ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Autumn Fires
Ahh Autumn! Makes me sad that the hot days of summer [...]
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Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is filled with commentaries on character and its formation. As a parent, I found the following observations by a father in the story quite thought-provoking:
He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting, that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty [...]
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We love the library and at any given time have between sixty and one hundred books checked out for our family. The library is a great tool for the homeschooling family and can save a ton of money as well. The library stops being a great tool when you are saddled with late fees and [...]
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Along This Road
I walk along this road
It is where you and I abode
You help me carry my load
and then I am showed
You are with me along this road
You walk ahead of me
I will let you lead
I make this creed
I won’t recede
You are with me along this road
Sometimes I feel alone
I grumble and groan
but then I [...]
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A good friend of mine once posted this with a lovely photo of her own. I can’t resist posting it again. ‘A More Ancient Mariner’ is such a delightful poem and animates the fuzzy honey bee with character better left for pirates and trouble-makers. If it weren’t for most of the worker bees being ladies, [...]
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