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Train up a Child Publishing is here to help you bring your kids’ homeschool education to life and have a happy, thriving home.   With our literature-based, Charlotte Mason-inspired curriculum, helpful blog, and experienced mentoring, you can learn how to teach using science-research-based teaching methods, train your children to have good habits (and polish up some of yours in the process), and make simple changes to keep your household running smoothly.

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Intellectual Habit Training: Charlotte Mason Mondays
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Intellectual Habit Training: Charlotte Mason Mondays

Do the Next Thing If you don’t do it now, you’ll be in the same state Tomorrow, the next day, you will still hesitate. Trying to decide  causes more delays And some day you’ll weep over all the lost days. Habit…

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Project-based Learning

Have you heard the term project-based learning lately and wondered what all the buzz is about?  Project-based or project-led learning is a term coined to describe the learning that results when students are working to solve real-world problems and challenges. …

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Charlotte Mason Mondays – Education is an Atmosphere

Education is an atmosphere “Our motto is,–‘Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.’ When we say that education is an atmosphere we do not mean that a child should be isolated in what may be called a ‘child environment’…

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Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

“I’m. SO. BORED.” You’re eleven year old is looking at his a textbook like it will give him the black plague. Meanwhile, your seven and five year olds are chasing each other around the house instead of doing their assigned…

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Summer Geography Lessons

Editor’s note: these summer geography lessons were inspired by our oldest’s summer mission trip while she was in college. She traveled to the Amazon jungle in Peru in order to share the gospel with the Yagua people who lived along…

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An April Fools Day science lesson: Amazing Flying Penguins

How about an April Fools Day science lesson? Adding a little humor and unexpectedness into homeschooling is part of what makes things fun, both for you and your children.  And what better thing to do on April Fools Day but…

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60 Assignment Ideas (K-HS) Using Real Books

How to bring life to your kids’ education by teaching history, science, and language arts using excellent literature instead of dry textbooks!

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