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My teenager's combination World History/Art History study (that I'm still not entirely sure how I'm going to record on her high school transcript...) is a TON of fun. We read the history and the art history, study the major artworks, read some literature or mythology, do something immersive, and write about it. I love it, and so far it seems pretty teenager-friendly, too!My favorite parts of her Mesopotamia unit were listening to The Epic of Gilgamesh (the teenager ships Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and I can't say that she's wrong), envisioning the Ishtar Gate (not to be confused with the Gates...

With so much bad news (which is what invariably happens when people don’t obey the Word of God), are you ready for some good news? Here are 5 encouraging cultural trends I’ve noticed this year: Rising to 60% are Americans who believe there are only 2 sexes and your sex is determined at birth. A Democrat poll found average U.S. voters think the Democrat Party is “too extreme” and “out of touch.” Elon Musk taking over Twitter is a huge win for free speech, both exposing and reversing censorship There are now two First Amendment lawsuits against AB 2098 (tramples...

Today’s post has been written by guest blogger, Adriana Zoder. She’s sharing her experiences with a popular Classical education curriculum that happens to work really well in a Charlotte Mason homeschool, too. In fact, it’s one of my favorite curriculum choices of all time for history. With chapters written as living literature, the chronological overview of history is perfect for elementary students. By adding more than a handful of activities and living books from the activity guides, the curriculum can be perfect for middle schoolers, too. This post contains affiliate links. In my own homeschool, I’ve used The Story of the World...

If you have teenagers you know the the reason all homeschool advice is from parents with young kids to other parents with young kids is because that’s the time it’s easiest to delude yourself that you know what you’re doing. That’s why I have so many extra pictures of my kids as teenagers to sprinkle all over my blog posts; I barely wrote about my kids during those years. I barely wrote about my kids as teens because I was so blown away by how much I didn’t know and how fast things were spinning out of my control. But...

Twenty-five ago, the ‘90s version of A Hard Day’s Night featured Meat Loaf, Alan Cumming, and Roger Moore. On December 26, 1997, this improbable film is Spice World, a clear parody movie starring the Spice Girls themselves, arguably the biggest musical group in the world at the time, in a movie you barely remember. But, twenty-five years later, Spice World is both weirder and better than you might remember. Spice World encapsulates the late ‘90s in a way that is both great and stranger than you remember. The movie follows Baby Spice (Emma), Scary Spice (Mel B), Sporty Spice (Mel...