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Multitasking and the diminished child
by Ellyn Davis The last issue of Home School Marketplace explained what researchers are discovering about multitasking. It seems that trying to do more than one thing at a time muddles the brain in a variety of ways. Here are just a few. Multitasking adversely affects how you learn Multitasking creates chemical reactions in your brain that resemble
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Teaching your older boys
By Cindy Rollins I have been asked if there are ever circumstances where a boy might flourish in a school environment rather than at home with his mother, acknowledging that not everyone has that option. I did not have that option and I always consoled myself by remembering that most boys in schools
A homeschool grad looks back
Paige Coker Rekers (homeschool class of 1999) answers the question, “How has homeschooling prepared you for life?” By Paige Coker Rekers At 15 my life revolved around one person – me. On the way to school one day at the end of my sophomore year, my mom gave me the ultimatum of either staying
Lessons from the bard
By Cindy Rollins When I first read Susan Schaeffer Macaulay’s For the Children’s Sake I was intrigued by the idea of reading Shakespeare to children. At the time my oldest was only three. My own experiences with Shakespeare up to that point had been watching Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli’s
Critical Masses
Education has become an exercise in tearing down, without rebuilding By Jeanie B. Cheaney Last month, in the journal First Things, senior editor R.R. Reno confessed his participation in “An Error Worse Than Error,” namely the purported goal of higher education to question everything. “Students
Rediscovering art of manly conversation
By James Hindman We live in a world that is becoming increasingly impersonal. The daily interactions we have barely scratch the surface to get to heart of the individuals we encounter. We greet coworkers in the hallways, we nod, we smile and we’re polite. We shake hands on Sunday with our church family
Do moms unwittingly help create nanny state?
By Cindy Rollins On my blog this winter we are reading Anthony Esolen’s book Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (2010, ISI Books). I won’t share with you all 10 chapters but I thought February, that worst of months for the homeschool
Without form and void; do manners matter?
By Franklin Sanders Culture gives a society form. Like a potter shaping his pots, culture forms and shapes not only art and literature, but all of everyday life in manners. Manners prescribe the form we use to deal with each other in every encounter, the form for properly dealing with birth, death,
Writing, if done often, becomes easier
By Cindy Rollins You may have noticed I tend to generalize. Richard Weaver in the introduction to his excellent book Ideas Have Consequences writes, “It is useless to argue against generalization; a world without generalization would be a world without knowledge.” Generalization is a tool that we
Traditional notions about college invite debt, prolonged adolescence
By Matt Trewhella In America today, everyone thinks you should just go to college after you’re done with high school. Parents just assume it is their duty to make sure their child goes off to the university. Very little thought goes into this decision — other than which university. I want to