by Laurie Bluedorn | May 25, 2015 | Delayed Formal Education, Education, Homeschooling
Research reveals negative effects of academic preschools and kindergartens. The author of this article asks, “What has been your experience with early education, as a parent or a teacher? What effects have you seen of early academic training, or, conversely, of...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 13, 2015 | Delayed Formal Education
Dear Laurie, I wanted to give a testimonial about your book Teaching the Trivium. Last year my husband and I became very convicted about having our children in school. It was a wonderful Christian school, and I was the 3rd/4th grade language arts teacher. We decided...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 6, 2015 | Delayed Formal Education, Math
I just read the article Math and Pencils, and I wanted to share something that might prove helpful. I hope you will consider this information. My son was also allergic to his pencil. We used Saxon and he hated it. When we did the practice tests at the beginning of...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 2, 2015 | Classical Education, Delayed Formal Education, Homeschooling
I am so deeply enjoying your book. I am on my second go-round, really taking it in with understanding. I have 2 boys, ages 8 and 10. We have run the gamut of style in the last 5 years but do not seem to have ‘hit it on the head’ yet. My husband and I are...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 18, 2014 | Delayed Formal Education
By age ten, your child can comprehend the abstract grammatical concepts of noun, verb, participle, and gerund. English grammar, or any language grammar, can be readily learned. Some begin the formal study of English grammar in the first grade (age six). We would...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 18, 2014 | Delayed Formal Education
Question: I have a ten-year-old boy who has done very little formal academics. He is very creative by nature, devours books (although he did not “learn” to read until nine years old), draws continually, has an inventor’s mind (like his beloved daddy), can recite...
