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Seeking order and that masculine grace — virtue
By Cindy Rollins Recently my blog book club has been reading through Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American Order. Many of us were daunted just looking at the 500-page tome, but we have been pleasantly surprised that this conservative classic is also highly readable. To tell the truth, I don’t always get all excited when I hear the word “order.”
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Sibling rivalry: What’s a mother to do?
By Cindy Rollins I once read a book that answered the question of what to do about sibling rivalry with the answer, “Do not allow it.” That was super discouraging because I didn’t ‘allow’ it but there it was. You try rearing eight sons out in the country while being pregnant
Protecting the future by remembering the past
By Rich Melton It’s been said that “history teaches us that mankind learns nothing from history,” and while this may often be the case, it does not have to be so. In the history of every individual, family, organization or nation, there are crossroads at which remembrance of the past is critical
What the homeschool dads wrote on a brown napkin
By James Hindman As Christian homeschool fathers we place a huge burden on the shoulders of our wives. Most of us leave the chaotic, timetable, unit study, book-laden home each morning for the quiet confines of our offices or place of employment. Many of us feel as though allowing our wives to stay
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
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