by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 10, 2019 | Education, Homeschooling, Raising Children
I’m just now preparing to begin homeschooling my oldest child, who turned five in January. I’m intending to follow a classical model. I’ve just recently found your website and I’ve read your articles on early formal education. My daughter is, in your terms, a...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 13, 2019 | Education, Ron Paul Curriculum
I’ve been impressed with your website and materials. Sadly, all my children are grown and gone and didn’t get the education they should have. I’m realizing I was not able to educate them well because I am not a logical person. Over the last year I...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 27, 2018 | Education
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Dec 5, 2016 | Delayed Formal Education, Education
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Taken from Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think And What We Can Do About It by Jane M. Healy [Page 66] [T]he axons, or output parts of [brain] neurons, gradually...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jun 25, 2015 | Classical Education, Delayed Formal Education, Dictation, Education, Homeschooling, How Would You Answer This?
Here is a Facebook conversation we recently had with a friend. Debra: I have an 8-year-old and 7-year-old (along with three littles). Both are reading very well. We read aloud a lot and love it. They want to write letters and notes. I am simply noticing a lack of any...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jun 4, 2015 | Classical Education, Education, Homeschooling, Raising Children
Dear Laurie, I recently took my 14-year-old stepson out of public school. He’s a mess — he hates school, isn’t learning anything, and doesn’t seem to have a very long attention span. What curriculum can I buy which will teach him how to think?...
