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[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Jessica, you rang?


Seriously though, I love that I am still remembered around here. I keep my hand in classical education constantly since my late in life baby attends a classical school in NoVA that would give Highlands Latin School a run for its money.

Yep, Jessica,...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

LOL bean, I still can't find the edit option. What has happened to my brain now that I don't do my high level thinking on the reg?

I love that you intuited that your daughter's currency is To Be Right. That is mine, too! On my last anniversary, I told my husband that he has a lifetime...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Hi. Not sure if hearing from a Retired Person is your first choice, but if I may...

While MP doesn't per se schedule its cores on a history cycle, like some competitors in the Classical education world do, the point of the cores is to introduce and reinforce classical civilizations several...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

No, I suggest that you do NOT wait to confer with my husband, since he is currently deployed (one year already and going strong!). I recommend you confer with YOUR husband. The whole strategy might work better that way.

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I tried, I really tried to just edit the post,...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

If I may? I don't want to be a bore, but I thought I might offer a few more thoughts.


The key in the "currency" game is to allow the child to control something s/he values. You say that TV is your child's currency. Is this total control of the TV for this child, or is...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Hi! Wow, how flattering to be remembered! Love it!

Might you be recalling how I motivated my son, then around 8 yrs, to get his math completed in a timely way? I intuited a currency for him where he could "buy" his privileges from me after school by earning that currency during...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Further comment on the above.

Normally high school students take Geometry after Alg 1 so that they are more prepared for college entrance exams which always contain Geometry. If those tests are not of concern to you, then I'd recommend completing the Algebra sequence over breaking it...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Hi Cathy,

I do *SO* miss the planning part of homeschool. That was always my favorite part.

Can I add a little bit here? In the classical school that my youngest now attends, they handle 7th and 8th in a really terrific way. The students have 4 subjects that run all...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Hi! I decided to peek in after being away for a long time and saw this. I was meant to be here today.

All 4 of my kids ended up doing stints at both public and private schools. Neither of those choices is really different, content wise, from each other (no matter what the shiny brochures...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

I second IEW's high school offerings. IEW gets a bad wrap in some circles because of the the artificial nature of the early writing projects, but what it does do is to teach "writing" in a methodical, analytical fashion. The high school products are geared specifically for essays, research...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Whoops, I meant to attach this link too: https://www.nashvilledominican.org/a...s-in-practice/

I've dabbled with this set of materials over the years. They are cute, combining saints with virtues.





Jen

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

There are so, so many of these resources out there. Like hundreds of books that range from stand alone books to compilation books, liturgical saint-a-day type books to "15 best loved saints" type books. The mind boggles.


My overarching strategy is The Three Legged Stool...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

For your son, you will definitely want to consider The Catholic University of America. Not only is it the only American Catholic university with a papal charter (hence the "The" in the title), it's music program is world class. If he can get IN to the Benjamin T Rome music department, he...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah... you are speaking like an introvert here. Here's the best definition of an extrovert/introvert that I know (and love): Extroverts gather data and input *from their environment* - direct sourcing, if you will, whereas Introverts rearrange data from interior sources. Where you, an...

[Jen (formerly) in Japan]

My alma mater is also the University of Illinois:

BS Chemistry - Chemistry dept was #5 in the nation at that time
BA Economics

Husband:

NROTC
BS Civil Engineering - Engineering Dept was (and remains) #4 in the nation behind MIT, CalTech, and Stanford;...