Raising Real Men

This series of articles is in response to the question, “What curriculum do you use?” which we’re freqently asked. Read the first in the series here. Preschool is a time when you can really hardly fail. You have years and years and years to make up for what you don’t teach. Unfortunately, though, we find it…
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Folks ask us all the time, “So, what curriculum do you use?” Let me begin to answer by telling you a story. Many years ago, one of my dear friends asked me the same thing as she began homeschooling her children. I was happy to tell her because I believed I’d found the very best…
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What’s a Facebook Party?  It’s just like a regular party — people meet in the same place to enjoy each other’s company! Only, we’ll meet online at our Raising Real Men Facebook Page. Just like an ordinary party, we’ll have Party Favors (freebies everyone can have) & Door Prizes (giveaways that we’ll choose winners for). You…
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“Homeschooling”. To some, the word might conjure up images of un-socialized nerds. To others, it might inspire dreams of perfect students, sitting at the table eagerly learning everything they’re taught and clamoring for more. To most of us, we probably see everything — from the struggles of teaching children of all ages, to the pleasure…
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King Alfred’s English: A History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do is a fun and enlightening view of English history in the format of four major language “invasions” and how they changed the shape and form of English. Surprising facts about people and wars, quirky details about spelling…
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The longer we homeschool, the more we realize that homeschooling isn’t merely about spelling, math and history. It’s really about Life, the Universe and Everything, but not quite the way Douglas Adams meant it!

Hello to all the new folks visiting us today from My Home in the Smokies while we’re sponsoring the giveaway on the Hip Homeschool Hop! We hope you’ll take a look around while you’re here, especially if you have boys. Check out our new book, Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys for real, practical…
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One thing we hear all the time is how hard it is to get boys to “sit down and do schoolwork” and when I look back at the most effective learning we’ve done, it’s been when it was hands-on, hearts-on education. Such as when we toured Civil War sites in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on…
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