Are you loving the preschool years? According to Charlotte Mason, the preschool years were intended to be “a quiet growing time” but for many families, those years have turned into a time of pressure and unrealistic expectations. It’s hard to drown out all the voices in today’s culture telling you to “do more” and find a way to provide that…
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Inspiring Speech with Kate Wilde, Director of The Son-Rise Program®
Do you want to inspire language in your child with autism? So often there seems to be an unspoken time limit placed on our autistic children when it comes to language. A sort of “now or never” attitude that implies if our child doesn’t talk by a certain time, that window closes forever. Join us today as Kate Wilde, Director of…
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A Case for the Early Years with Leah Martin from My Little Robins
Are you in the Early Years Stage? If you have a 0-6-year-old, you are living in what Charlotte Mason referred to as “the early years.” In her first volume, Home Education, Miss Mason urged mothers to “secure for them a quiet growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it spent for the most…
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The Perks of Year-Round Homeschooling
Does the idea of homeschooling year round overwhelm you? School’s out for summer…unless you live in the Rinna home. Don’t get me wrong – we’re not plugging away at the table working all day instead of playing outside in the sprinkler. We still soak up all the benefits of summer and we even take a few weeks off. I debated…
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Are You Starving? The Why and How of Nurturing the Mother’s Mind with Brandy Vencel
Are you starving yourself? Brandy Vencel wrote an article a few years ago that challenged parents to consider if they were starving their children’s minds which made me consider, also, if I was starving my own mind. Mothers are commonly attributed with being self-sacrificing, but in terms of the mind, we must remember that we cannot pour out from an…
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