home education

I used to completely ignore birds. I did not find anything interesting or valuable in watching them, knowing their names, or even noticing their existence. Can you believe that?   A year or two ago a friend was telling me about reading and studying at her desk by the window where she could see her bird feeders. […]

Twaddle – – the highly debated, variously defined, fascinating word used to describe material that talks down to a child and/or does not feed their intellectual appetite or imagination.  From Volume 1, Charlotte says, “Even for their earliest reading lessons, it is unnecessary to put twaddle into the hands of children. That children like feeble […]