How to Teach Writing in a Child-Directed Way

There are so many great homeschool writing curriculums available. But sometimes you just want to get away from a formal approach, a formal curriculum. Surely there’s got to be an easier way, a child-directed way. Since you get to decide how to approach your child’s education, you get to decide if you choose this curriculum…

Read More

teaching vocabulary

Just by speaking, we learn vocabulary. By reading, we naturally learn it all the more. Grandma overheard her granddaughter refer to her coccyx getting hurt on the sled hill (not conventional nine  year old terminology, but she has a medical dad). We speak, they learn. I don’t teach vocabulary. But I am a word geek.…

Read More

food for creative thought: the unique contribution

What is my unique contribution to the world? I relistened to a podcast by Elizabeth Gilbert interviewing Brene Brown. You are likely familiar with the author Elizabeth Gilbert. She wrote Eat, Pray, Love…and a handful of other titles. Recently, Gilbert wrote Big Magic — the next title on my reading list. It’s a book about creativity,…

Read More

food for creative thought: how I incorporate writing into daily life

Writing. It’s the adult voice in my child-oriented world. It’s the ear that always listens when a human ear isn’t available. It’s the transmission of mind to paper when a surge of artistic intention burns through. For me, that’s writing. It could be pottery. Or oil painting. Cabinetry. Cooking. Or chess strategy. For me, I must. I…

Read More