by Brandy Vencel | Jul 13, 2018 | Other Thoughts
:: 1 :: I’ve been pestering my husband for a while about contributing here at Afterthoughts. Years ago, when we ran our local homeschool conference, he spoke on children’s health (he has a master’s degree in holistic nutrition), and the moms ate it...
by Brandy Vencel | Jul 6, 2018 | Ambleside, Other Thoughts
:: 1 :: Next week is my big school planning week. Three of my children are attending a horse camp, and so E-Age-16 and I plan to bum around the house and Get Things Done! I’m beyond thrilled to not be getting my own picture study materials together. After ten...
by Brandy Vencel | Jun 22, 2018 | Other Thoughts
:: 1 :: This comment from last week brings up a good point: I laughed out loud, as did my husband when I told him why, about The Self-Driven Child being considered moderately easy. I cracked it open last weekend and it has changed our lives. While the boys are working...
by Brandy Vencel | Jun 13, 2018 | Home Education, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Other Thoughts, Parenting
This post is not going to make an argument for chores. I’m going to assume that your children do chores — or, at the very least, you wish they did. I’ve talked about my chore system in a variety of places, so this post is going to serve as a one-stop...
by Brandy Vencel | Jun 8, 2018 | Other Thoughts
:: 1 :: Because it’s the end of the school year (TODAY is our last day!!), I’ve been finishing a ton of books — mostly pre-reading types of books. One of the books I finished signified a monumental moment. The book was Churchill’s The Great...
by Brandy Vencel | Jun 1, 2018 | Other Thoughts
:: 1 :: Season 3 of AfterCast started back up yesterday. I started the season off with this: You can listen to it from the link in the post, but I always think the best and easiest way to subscribe is to find AfterCast in your favorite podcast player and subscribe....
