Mt. Sophia Ideas

Do you have written goals for each child and for your homeschool?  If you do, congratulations.  Few people have written goals.  If you don’t, here is a way to write some.  Of course, just as there is no one right way to homeschool, there is not one right way to write your goals.
Here are some [...]

Back in the dark ages when I started homeschooling, our options were limited.  There were only a few curriculum publishers who catered to homeschool students.  There were few extracurricular activities geared to homeschoolers, especially to middle and high school students.  The internet was not available to answer questions and help you [...]

Last summer, Nathan and Sarah Tillman wanted to visit France. Wanting to make it a fun, frugal and useful trip, (as well as a celebration of their completing their master’s degrees), they decided to try a new idea. They bartered room and board with a French homeschooling family in return for tutoring English and Latin [...]

As you can see by the lack of posts during September, I’ve been real busy.
What is happening is that I hit one of those pivotal life transitions. You know the kind? You are moseying along living life as usual and all of a sudden you realize the little country road was merging onto I-95.
So I’ve [...]

I am making a list of great “real life” books- can you help?
As many folks know, some years back I wrote a Human Development text that a number of Mt Sophia students have used. It seriously needs updating, so I have a team working on it.
We’d like to include some booklists that the students might [...]

My mother-in-law, Sarah Kitchin — a Ph.D. linguist who homeschooled my wife and sister-in-law, and taught many homeschooled children Latin and government and a million other things — passed away Tuesday before last. The “viewing” (or “visitation”) was on this past Sunday, with the funeral following on Monday.
We philosophers are supposed to be able [...]