✨Congratulations everyone on the end of an incredible academic year!
One of my favorite ways to end the year is to show my kids what they were doing last August. They are stunned to see how much their writing has improved & how the math seems so easy.
One rarely remembers what happened a year ago-show your kids how much they've grown.
Honestly, I’d needed the reminder — and you probably do too.
So before you rush into summer, pause, and reflect on all your wins!
As I mentioned last week, I have something special planned for us this summer.
We’re going to spend the next few months exploring how to help our children fall in love with reading, writing, and math — giving our children a joyfully, rigorous education. If you missed it, you can read more details in my post Why I Refuse to Choose Between Joy and Rigor.
But I didn’t want you to hear only from me.
I want you to learn from parents who have walked different educational paths, some much further down the road than I am, and who have deeply wrestled with balancing joy and rigor in their homes.
I’ve lined up four powerful conversations with veteran homeschool parents whose stories could not be more different. Two began with highly rigorous environments. Two began with almost complete freedom. None of them ended where they started.
Some stories are full of redemption — children rediscovering themselves and coming back to life. Others include adults looking back with honesty, wishing parts of their childhood had been different.
All of them wrestle with the same deep question so many of us carry: How do we give our children both freedom and formation? Both joy and rigor?
I hope these conversations inform you, challenge you, and above all help you see education, and your own children, a little differently.
And at the end of the summer, I’ll come back and share my own reflections and what I learned from these incredible parents along the way.
Welcome to summer my friends — I’m truly grateful to share it with you♥️
~Dr. Claire♥️
