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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My only child graduates in 2024 . . . and then what? What comes next? These are the questions I have asked myself for the past four years. I see the end in sight, I want to finish well with her, but then what happens to me? I reluctantly...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Since the release of our all-new Scribblers at Home: Recipes from Lifelong Learners in March 2023, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback on how this resource is enabling parents to teach their students at home. Before getting to what our families are saying about Scribblers, we want to first...
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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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I can still hear the mellow and measured tones of the narrator’s voice as he held my children captive. Hazy summer days included blankets under shade trees, a portable CD player, cool drinks, and wide-eyed attentive children hanging on every word. They were listening to The Story of the World audiobook....
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Ready to review the top takeaways from March’s Classical Conversations® podcast episodes? March Podcast Recap: Highlights and Takeaways Fret not if you missed some of our latest episodes—in this monthly recap of our podcasts, we’ll cover the best practical tips, advice, and encouragement from Refining Rhetoric with Robert Bortins...
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