Author: Laura Robbins
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Preschool: The Foundational Period
The preschool years are the most impressionable time in all childhood. The foundations laid here in discipline, music, and reading will set the stage for the future school years of your child. Also, sending the child out into the world before they have even learned anything about self-control and self-confidence is dangerous, especially when schools,…
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What Does Homeschooling Actually Look Like
The Schedule vs. Real Life With homeschooling, there’s the theory and then there’s the practice; there’s the schedule, and then there’s reality. My homeschooling journey so far has been a bumpy ride, with all its hiccups and jolts along the way including my husband hospitalized and close to death multiple times, moves, painting the whole…
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Why Should Children Do Exercises Orally?
What are the benefits of oral exercises and is it really a better education, and worth the time? Most of the time in traditional educational settings, like the classroom, teaching is oral: lessons, lectures, reading aloud. I believe that as much as possible a child should be taught orally. They should be hearing the lessons…
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How to Encourage Reading
Encouraging children to read should be a simple task, as easy as offering them a book, but in this day and age, where screens are king, it can seem almost impossible. So what do you do? First, my tips consider starting with very young children, but don’t fret, even if your children are older. The…
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How to Teach Phonics
Teaching phonics is one of the easiest things you do as a parent. It’s the easiest, because, after all, it’s just learning the basic letter sounds needed to read, and there are so many subjects more difficult than this: Latin, logic, chemistry, calculus! But to be honest, I believe it can also be difficult as…
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How to Teach Greek for Grammar School
This is part of a series which started here. If you have already read the introduction, feel free to skip down to the section: Note Before We Start. Two questions are bound to come up, because of my article on the necessity of Latin and Greek. How do I incorporate Latin and Greek into my…
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How to Teach Latin for Middle School & Junior High
This is part of a series which started here. If you have already read the introduction, feel free to skip down to the section: Latin Curriculum and Notes on Teaching. Two questions are bound to come up, because of my article on the necessity of Latin and Greek. How do I incorporate Latin and Greek…
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How to Teach Latin for Grade School
Two questions are bound to come up, because of my article on the necessity of Latin and Greek. (1) How do I incorporate Latin and Greek into my curriculum, and (2) how do I teach Latin and Greek when I don’t even know it? First off, I will say, I hear you on both fronts.…
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Why Should I Homeschool?
There are almost as many reasons to homeschool as there are families who homeschool, so I will only present some of the major reasons, but you may have your own apart from or in addition to these, and if they inspire you to homeschool your children, that is all that matters. Thinking about the possibility…
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Why is Memory Work Necessary?
This article could be summed up thus: memory work=knowledge. If you don’t have knowledge, you don’t have an education. There. Article over. Okay, seriously, memory work is the essence of education, without memory work, and yes, I mean rote memorization, you have no education. The only way to know something is to have it memorized.…
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