Monthly Archives: September 2012

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig

By Headmistress | Published: September 29, 2012

Monday morning we rode off to camp in a twelve passenger van and a nominally 3 passenger pick up truck, loaded to the room and bulging at the seams. ‘We’ in this case included: My 6 foot tall son, me, and Miss Jenny-Any-Dots in the truck.  This is significant because the truck really isn’t made […]

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Slave Breeding In the South

By Headmistress | Published: September 28, 2012

A popular defense of the southern slave states by the neoconfederates is that the north was responsible for all the actual slave trading, and especially the import of slaves from their native soils, and the southern states were opposed to the importation of slaves.  This is partially true, and I ‘m not interested in defending […]

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Final Thoughts

By Headmistress | Published: September 27, 2012

Jonathan Lindvahl tends to be one of those polarizing names in homeschooling circles. People tend to love him or loathe him. We do not agree with everything he says, and we would not go quite so far as he does in his teachings on courtship. But we do agree with what he says about the […]

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Four Moms Q and A for September

By Headmistress | Published: September 27, 2012

  The Four Moms are: Connie, at Smockity Frocks Kim at Life in a Shoe Kimberly at Raising Olives And ME! Q. How have you had to adapt your homes to accommodate your larger family? A. Currently, not so much, because we live in the largest house we have ever lived in at a time […]

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What Girls Need to Know

By Headmistress | Published: September 26, 2012

What girls need to know Physical intimacy is intoxicating like alcohol. It will cloud your judgment, inhibit critical thinking, and make you do things that later you may regret. And the consequences for girls are usually more devastating than for boys. Physical intimacy carries profound emotional feelings with it for girls, but boys DO NOT […]

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