Episodes

  • Make Yourself a Cuppa'!

    Make Yourself a Cuppa'!
    Nov 19 2024
    Listen to this fun episode with Renee, Karen, and two friends, sisters Rebekah and Rachel, as they talk about the ceremony and traditions surrounding the enjoyment of tea and the blessing of a pot of tea with friends. They offer suggestions on how to bring tea time into your homeschool and where to find the best brands of tea online. You will want to boil some water and enjoy your favorite tea in a pretty cup!

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    32 mins
  • Talking Art and Advent with Katerina Hamilton

    Talking Art and Advent with Katerina Hamilton
    Nov 12 2024
    Listen as Renee and Karen chat with Katerina Hamilton, Karen's daughter, about a new book called Let Heaven and Nature Sing: Advent Art and Poetry Lesson Plans for All Ages. This is a lovely resource for Advent with poems, color prints, and discussion questions to celebrate the season with your children or to enjoy by yourself! Listen as Katerina answers the question as to why so many Renaissance painters depicted Mary and Jesus as blond with blue eyes and as she discusses the power of the comparison question in your homeschool.

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    30 mins
  • From Socrates to Crumb-cake

    From Socrates to Crumb-cake
    Nov 5 2024
    In this episode, Renee and Karen discuss chapter 6 of Norms and Nobility, "On the Necessity of Dogma". This chapter explores dialectic-the art of thinking, of wrestling with a dogma or an idea and coming to the truth. They discuss HIcks' statement of how "dialectic awakens the quarrelsome inner life" and that this is not to be feared, how the "should" question is a powerful tool, and how following a recipe is an analogy of classical education: freedom in form!

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    37 mins
  • Guest Andrew Kern and his new book Unless the Lord Builds the House

    Guest Andrew Kern and his new book Unless the Lord Builds the House
    Oct 30 2024
    Join us as we chat with Andrew Kern about his new book, Unless the Lord Builds the House, a treatise on how the temple is the pattern for learning. We discuss how the temple and its parts: the Holy of Holies, the Holy Place, the Courtyard and the Camp are patterns of us as humans and of the world around us and how that makes a difference in how we see our children and the glory to be found in every lesson.

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    39 mins
  • Emily Hill is back to update us on her hybrid school and forest school.

    Emily Hill is back to update us on her hybrid school and forest school.
    Oct 22 2024
    Listen as Renee and Karen are joined by our friend and previous co-host, Emily Hill, to talk about her schools: Haven Forest School for K-6th grade and Haven for middle and upper school. Be encouraged with ideas and resources for your co-op or hybrid school, and if you are dreaming of starting something, jump in, and as Emily says, "Start small and do what matters to you."

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    27 mins
  • Norms and Nobility Ch. 5: Saving the Appearances

    Norms and Nobility Ch. 5: Saving the Appearances
    Oct 14 2024
    In this episode, Renee and Karen discuss the meaning of the phrase, "saving the appearances", how the ancients viewed science compared to the moderns, and the role of science in the classical curriculum.

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    32 mins
  • Laying down the rails: A few habits for kids at the start of a new school year

    Laying down the rails: A few habits for kids at the start of a new school year
    Oct 2 2024
    Charlotte Mason said, "If we fail to ease life by laying down habits of right thinking and right acting, habits of wrong thinking and wrong acting fix themselves of their own accord." Listen as Renee and Karen discuss a few habits for kids that will serve them for the long run.

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    28 mins
  • A few habits for moms at the start of a new school year

    A few habits for moms at the start of a new school year
    Sep 17 2024
    Charlotte Mason wrote that habits are the rails on which the good life runs. In this episode Renee and Karen each offer three habits for moms to help launch a new school year.

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    33 mins