Category: the learning arts
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A Hospitable Theory of Social Media Engagement
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Any parent of teenagers can tell you that the deepest, most expansive, and heart changing conversations you can have with your kid (in this case, about social media) will probably happen in the sleepy hours between 10 and midnight. It is a whole different type of newborn wakefulness. They have…
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A good listen…
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I’ve really been enjoying the new season of The Mason Jar from Circe Institute. Karen Kern has taken the reins from Cindy Rollins (of Ordo Amoris, if you remember that wonderful blog!), and the first eight episodes are regarding cultivating culture within your home. While it may be a “homeschooling”…
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A generous feast…
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The lovely folks over at Charlotte Mason Poetry have been making available some of their video workshops for free this week. (Here’s the link, if you’re interested- they will come down Aug. 31) Above are my notes from Art Middlekauff’s workshop on Charlotte Mason’s twenty principles. I was pretty familiar…
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Another in the collection…
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Yet another of those ideas tucked into my homeschool aims and mantras, seen here, as bumper sticker on our van. (Side note: I love how much my Coexist sticker makes all my nerd friends laugh. I’ve even seen it tickle the funny bones of monks and nuns. Which makes me…
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Accensisque ignis
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(The four younger kids decided on an art project this summer- their goal is to fill this long living room wall full of drawings and paintings by the time Grandma and Grandpa visit in late August. Here they are hard at work and planning the next steps.) My social media…