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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Homeschooling When Life Gets Messy (opens the original)

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    When I first started homeschooling I thought everything would go so smoothly, but, boy, was I ever wrong! It seems like life didn’t slow down for me, it ramped up.And, as the mom of 15 energetic children, here’s one thing I’ve learned about change:It’s inevitable.It seemed like I would just get to a place where I felt comfortable, and then something would upset my carefully controlled world, such as a job change or morning sickness.I know you can relate.Finally, I stopped expecting everything to

  2. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    The School Year Was Not Meant For Your Family (opens the original)

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    There is a reason your family life no longer fits the “typical” school year. It’s because you have discovered a secret that has been lost to modern life, but you don’t feel good about it, you feel strange.I remember feeling strange. I felt weird, even sinful, for a lot of years because I just couldn’t get our homeschooling to fit into “normal.” I bought the curriculum at the correct moment, I sat my children down to “learn” at the appointed day of the appointed month, but something in me was reb

  3. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    Beyond Charlotte Mason Dictation (opens the original)

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    For children struggling with spelling, grammar, or punctuation, there is a simple tool that is powerfully able to help.It’s called dictation.It’s really like a potent vitamin filled with all the essentials of written communication. Charlotte Mason used it, as did McGuffey and a host of educators who existed for millennia before them.However, if you’re like me, just the thought of doing dictation with my children has rated up there with getting my tires rotated and cleaning out the filter in my w

  4. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    From Frustration to Independence (opens the original)

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    Most reading struggles aren’t due to flawed children, just materials used at the wrong level.But how to we find that level?For years I struggled with this, until I discovered the McGuffey readers and needed to know how to place each child in the different books. What I found I want to share with you today.In less than five minutes, you’ll be able to tell whether a book is too easy, just right, or so difficult that it’s actually hurting your child’s confidence.And it’s only going to take a painle

  5. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    Raise Good Writers Without a Writing Curriculum (opens the original)

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    I know you’ve been thinking teaching essays is complicated and takes an English degree or some sort of truncated curriculum, but this isn’t true.The world is filled with essays.This podcast is an essay. Most magazine articles are essays. Most sermons are essays. If you’ve sat with someone and logically explained a movie, or described a family vacation, you were speaking in essay-eze.Essays are simply a way we organize thoughts so we can communicate them to others.And the best news is that they a

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