Thomas Jefferson Education

Last night in Family Home Evening, my husband and I introduced the concept of The Bean Counter Game as found in Oliver and Rachel DeMille’s Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning. [...]

This week, my family started reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. So far, it’s a hit. When I say it’s time to stop reading, my kids ask me to read more. [...]

When my kids started showing interest in playing the piano, I started to ask my friends about piano teachers. One of them told me about the Suzuki method. It sounded wonderful, but was costly and [...]

We decided a couple of years ago to keep our kids’ birthdays small and the presents thoughtful partly because we didn’t want to fill the house with expensive toys the kids [...]