Category: Culture
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Beauty and the modern human
Our culture is hell-bent on making us all feel like ugly, repulsive creatures who need to submit ourselves to daily torture to pay for our sins. I beg to differ.
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Support your teen with goal-setting
Teens thrive when they feel that they have agency, choices, and a direction.
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The Value of Goal-Setting
Last year I made a sort of self-referential decision. I had been working on goal-setting with my kids, first my older one (just about to take off for college) and then with my then-13-year-old. I thought, “Wow, the goal-setting materials for teens that I’ve found are so hard to use with homeschoolers… I should write…
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4 reasons why schools shouldn’t play “immigration police”
In using schools to get at illegal immigrants, Britain is doing the wrong thing. Our government is currently doing the right thing. Let’s keep it that way.
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Math Stories: Fun, Deep Learning for Elementary Students
Readers: This is an update and consolidation of previous posts on this topic. Hopefully I’ve gotten all the resources in here! It started one night when my seven-year-old daughter explained to her father how you can determine the number of faces in a geometric solid from the number of points. I’d ordered a Sir Cumference…