To know God and to make Him known
Jun 05, 2023

Homeschoolers: 5 Things Not to Do This Summer

If you’re reading this, chances are your season of life and mine look pretty similar. I have littles (ages six and three), and I’m starting to think about what we’ll be doing over the summer break. Full disclosure: at the time of this writing, I’m seven months pregnant with...

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May 31, 2023

From South Africa: Seasons of a Mother’s Heart

In celebration of World Homeschooler’s Day this June 2, 2023, we would like to highlight one South African mom’s experience as a homeschooler. Although it’s spring in the United States, it’s winter in South Africa. While we’re enjoying warmth and sunshine, let’s remember also that our brothers and sisters...

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May 29, 2023

Memorial Day: Honoring the Fallen

Sadly, the significance of Memorial Day is often lost amidst cookouts, parades, and American flag decorations. Of course, there is nothing wrong with any of these fun celebrations. But easily, Memorial Day can become just another holiday to us, a day off from school or work. This year, we...

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May 15, 2023

Why Direct?

When people ask me what I do, I excitedly answer that I get to hang out with kids all day and talk about the books they read! Does it get any better than that? Rare are the students that even read real books anymore, but these students’ books are...

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May 10, 2023

Happy Mother’s Day!

For our friends in Mexico, this article will appear on Mother’s Day 2023! If you live in the UK, we trust these words will still be applicable nearly two months after your Mother’s Day observance. To the families down under, we look forward to celebrating this year’s Mother’s Day...

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May 03, 2023

Classical, Christian Education: A Brief Overview

In the pamphlet “Of Education,” John Milton, a seventeenth-century Christian poet, thinker, and statesman, wrote that “the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be...

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Apr 26, 2023

Raising Lifelong Learners

I was chatting with a friend recently about how difficult and overwhelming it can be to start something new. We often want to be perfect before we even begin! Homeschooling littles for the first time can definitely feel this way. One of the challenges or hurdles of homeschooling is...

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Apr 24, 2023

3 Homeschool Tips from a Returning Mom

Ever wish you could write a letter to your younger self or go back and take the lessons you’ve learned and use them when your kids were younger? Well, that’s me! Here are three homeschool tips I’ve learned after eighteen years of homeschooling my two oldest children and the...

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Apr 17, 2023

Get Ready for Our 2023 National Conference Events!

Each year, we invite Classical Conversations® families from communities across the nation to get together in one place for two large events sponsored by the non-profit organization the Classical Conversations Foundation—National Conference and National Commencement. Now, with the 2023 National Conference and National Commencement fast approaching, we’d like to share what you...

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Apr 05, 2023

Up from the Grave He Arose

It is Holy Week. For Christians, we are hushed, reflective, repentant, and pensive. The perfect Son of God, Jesus Christ, who came to earth to live a sinless life, offers himself as an unblemished sacrifice as payment for the sins of the world. He is crucified, dies, and descends...

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