Tag: parenting
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The Well-Educated Heart Overview
As a teenager, my mom introduced me to The Well-Educated Heart. At the time, I didn’t care. But as a mother of young children, I sure do! So a few months ago, I went through and watched “Catch the Vision” over the course of a few days. Since then, I have been joyfully implementing The…
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Booby Moon and Weaning Review
I’m eternally grateful for a beautiful breastfeeding journey with my children. It’s something I would never give up or change. But after three years of breastfeeding my oldest (with a hiatus where I *thought* I’d weaned, interrupted by seeing baby sister nurse), I am finally ready to wean her. My girl loves mommy milk. Her…
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The Call of the Wild + Free Review
The Call of the Wild + Free is really big in the homeschool community at the moment. Wild and free are both words I use to describe my children, who can most often be found running around in various degrees of dirty, squealing happily. I picked up the book with this in mind, wondering in…
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Awaking Wonder Review
Every child is a miracle. Every single one. Each is born as a seedbed of potential for loving, thinking, creating, giving, working, and so much more. Yet they also come into the world fragile, vulnerable, and dependent on those would care for their needs and shape their foundations for life– their physical, emotional and mental…
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Parenting With Love and Logic Review
Parenting is hard. It just is. We’re in the thick of boundary-testing with Millie, our almost-three-year-old, and boy is it tricky! I picked up Parenting With Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay on a recommendation from a close friend. She explained that it helps her to parent with, well, love and logic.…
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The Homegrown Preschooler Review
The Homegrown Preschooler: Teaching Your Kids in the Places They Live caught my attention from the moment I first saw it on the shelf. My husband and I are raising our two very young children at home, what more could the authors possibly need from a target audience? Although I hesitate to call what we…
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There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather Review
I picked up Linda McGurk’s There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather on a whim. I was home from college on a brief family visit, dreading the return of another winter in Southeast Idaho. I had been panicking over the thought of keeping two small children occupied in temperatures that can drop below 0 degrees…
Up the Mountain 