S asked me to put together a list of what curriculum we’ve found useful, and—overwhelmed at the magnitude of that task, it finally occurred to me that probably the simplest way to do so is just to explain what we’re actually doing, and a couple sentences about why. One caveat, this is more like “this very month,” because different kids…
One of the giant incongruities of being a credobaptist in a Presbyterian church is all this talk of covenant children. I’m still not entirely sure what they mean, but we believe our children are born depraved and lost. Which is depressing. But also inspiring. Because the Bible speaks to Christian parents, credo or paedobaptist, in two large subheadings: responsibilities of Christian parents,…
Last week marked the end of the girls’ adventure in their current math books, which means by my lights, they’re onto the new grade. I use math as our metric because 1) it’s the subject we are most behind in; 2) it’s very sequential, you can’t really skip around or ahead if you’re not getting it; and 3) whether it’s…