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Friday 30 August 2013

Spirituality, Methodology And Older Home Schooling Posts-One

09 Aug 2013
O Divine Child Jesus, only-begotten Son of the Father, You are the true light that enlightens everyone coming into this world. It is through You that I am, it is through You that all things have been made, and without You nothing ...
29 May 2013
St. Madeline Sophie Barat, whose feast it is today, had a great love of Classical Education, as I do. I suggest home schooling mums and dads pray to her for all their needs and the needs of their children. She loved the Sacred ...
27 Jan 2012
Did many notice Obama's stand against homeschooling in his address this week? When I home schooled, I belonged to the Home School Legal Defense Association for most of the 14 years or so I home schooled. Thankfully ...
23 Feb 2012
I've been homeschooling my daughter for 3 years now - and we love it. Arizona has some of the easiest homeschooling laws in the US. But, who knows how long it will last if Pres. Obama wins another term? Another mandate ...

14 Feb 2012
Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden, and if you are a Catholic, this could be a matter of religious freedom. For over a hundred years, Popes have declared the parents as the primary teachers of their children, with the necessity ...
17 Jun 2012
June 15, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish homseschooling couple may shortly be reunited with their son after a prolonged separation, after a Swedish court has judged that the couple did not act irresponsibly by ...

23 Aug 2013
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21 Aug 2013
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23 Aug 2013
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22 Aug 2013
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19 Jun 2012
If Catholics in the pew in any country of the West do not start working to save their own rights regarding religious freedom, they have only themselves to blame if they find themselves under totalitarian democracies. de ...

14 Aug 2013
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18 Jan 2013
Two characteristics of this type of learning is competition and modelling, or emulation. Positive feedback for work well-done is part of this method. Sadly, most Ignatian institutions no longer follow the strict regime of the Ratio ...
18 Jan 2013
St. Ignatius Tomorrow, I shall post the Salesian Preventive System and then look at my favourite, the Benedictine system. St. John Bosco's ideals were written in his The Preventive System in the Education of the Young.


18 Jan 2013
The development of the student's intellectual capacity is the school's most characteristic part. However, this development will be defective and even dangerous unless it is strengthened and completed by the training of the will ...

18 Jan 2013
When I did home schooling, and when I taught Socratic Method and the Classics, I used a paradigm based on Benedictine educational paradigms, which I shall save to last. The primary reason for presenting these ideals is to ...
25 Aug 2012
Maybe living in the Midwest of America, where there are stay-at-home moms, and moving in the home schooling, stay-at-home mom community, I just did not hear it. I was a happy housewife and that stay-at-home period of my ...
20 Jun 2012
I home schooled 7 of my 8 living children for over 25 years and now I spend my time either mucking horse stalls or babysitting 2 of my 15 grandchildren. Some days I do both:) I like your blog because it is the same "brand" of ...


18 Jan 2013
Home schooling parents benefit from using what has already been developed by these inspired men. Ignatius John Bosco Benedict and others. If I have time, I shall write about the Ursulines and Dominicans. But, sadly, few of ...
06 Dec 2012
If you are Catholic parents and Christian parents, you cannot teach your children at home except in the Philippines which has excellent home schooling groups. There is an estimated 4,0000 children being home schooled in ...
07 Jun 2013
Home school and get involved in home schooling communities or create one yourself. These groups usually include good conservative Evangelicals and Catholic mums. 2) Find the closest TLM and go to it. Most TLMs have ...

26 Jun 2013
I suggest home schooling parents consider it. http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/rs/rs1.html. Both methods stress thinking skills. Both explore. So does Montessori, 

18 Jan 2013
St. John Bosco's ideals were written in his The Preventive System in the Education of the Young. There is no right or wrong or even a hierarchy of preferences for these methods. Only, parents involved in home education, ...
18 Jan 2013
The primary reason for presenting these ideals is to show that a home schooling family needs to choose a way which suits them both practically and spiritually. A religious or philosophical approach to education must be ...
19 Jan 2013
The entire idea of work and prayer, labore et orare is also part of the day for education of the monks as well as their lay students. The beauty of the ... Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: Benedictines, home education ...

20 Jan 2013
... day and age. I would think some home schooling parents could use this method, or as I did, incorporate some of the disciplines into the other types. Email ThisBlogThis! ... to Facebook. Labels: dominicans, home education ...

20 Jan 2013
The purpose of education is to produce women of faith and of reason, to prepare for the ... Such was the vision of Ursuline education presented by Mother Marie de Saint-Jean Martin. ... Labels: home education, ursulines ...

07 Apr 2013
But, if I had to choose one book dealing with classical education to take to a desert island, it would be the Doctor of the Church St. Isidore of Seville's Etymologie. This work is a compilation of knowledge and definitions from the classical ... However, I have helped set up such in some schools in the States and in Canada, and my home school was based on this and the Montessori Method. What does all this have to do with perfection? God has given us brains to use to ...
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19 Jan 2013
In the beginning of the Constitutions of the Salesian Order, St. John Bosco writes of the purpose of his method of education: "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity .... every faithful Christian should receive holy communion whenever he hears Mass, and that this communion should not only be spiritual but also sacramental, so that greater fruit may be reaped from this august and divine sacrifice (Conc.
21 Aug 2013
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19 Aug 2013
Now, the upper classes, according to archaeologists, enjoyed meals with these ingredients (and this site is great for home schoolers, btw): triangular .... to Facebook. Labels: Catholic education, Dark Night, home education ...


I am not going to repeat the methodologies of the Benedictines, Jesuits, Dominicans, Ursulines or Salesians, as I did that in January....you can find those here.