by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 24, 2015 | Children's Books, Classical Education, Reading Aloud, Reviews
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. You know when you sometimes look at a homeschooling mom and want to be a fly on the wall and take a peek at ‘how she does it’? Seriously, what laundry system does she use?...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 6, 2015 | Classical Education, Homeschooling, Reviews
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. When my husband and I first began considering home education, a dear friend recommended Teaching the Trivium. I remember her telling me not to borrow it, but just purchase my...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 4, 2015 | Classical Education, Logic, Reviews
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Logic can be a difficult subject to teach, yet The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills, by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn, is a...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 24, 2014 | Children's Books, Reviews
We love reading the Bible to our children, which is one reason why we love the book, Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm by Johannah Bluedorn. It is a marvelously illustrated version of Psalm 103 with gorgeous full-color drawings on every page. In Bless the Lord, the...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 19, 2014 | Classical Education, Logic, Reviews
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. “Mom, that was a red herring!” My daughter blurted this out as we were watching a news show one evening. The most interesting thing about her statement was not the fact that...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 11, 2014 | Classical Education, Logic, Reviews
The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills is another delightful offering from brothers Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn. Recommended for ages 12 and up, it picks up where their book The Fallacy Detective (now in its third printing)...
