Krista Lynch was last week’s HomeschoolBlogger of the Week and won a copy of Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style.

I know I told you a couple of days ago that my favorite book is Men of Iron, but I need to change that. I just remembered that my true favorite book is Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. I recommend reading Robinson Crusoe in an unabridged version, but here’s an interesting edition I found on [...]

Mother Earth News
July/August 1980
John Holt: Teach Your Own Children…At Home
Read a rare, early interview with one of the true homeschooling pioneers — John Holt. Mr. Holt made two predictions in this interview, one of which came true. At that time, Mr. Holt estimated there were 10,000 families homeschooling and was optimistic those numbers would [...]

Through Baca’s Vale by J. C. Philpot
March 14
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Jeremiah 8:22
There is balm in Gilead, and there is a physician there. This is, and must ever be, our only hope. If there were no balm in Gilead, what could we do but lie down in despair [...]

I have a question about memory work.
My son just turned 3 years old, and I want to know how much new text he needs to memorize per day/week, just to give me an idea.
Today he recited The Sanctus in Latin, but this he has learned a few weeks ago. Now that I am formally follow [...]

This week’s carnivals:
Homeschooling
Family Life
Mathematics

The Desire of the Soul by Charles H. Spurgeon
…A Christian man has not always a bright shining sun. He has seasons of darkness and of night…..Experience tells us that the course of the just be as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At [...]

Spellbound: The Paranormal Seduction of Today’s Kids by Marcia Montenegro
Author Marcia Montenegro, former professional astrologer, now believer in Jesus Christ, wrote this book to “inform parents about the basics of the paranormal” but more importantly, to warn us of the real danger of the now widespread, near common place, occurrence of all things occultic. We [...]

Photo by Nathaniel Bluedorn

Photo by Nathaniel Bluedorn