Introducing a new publication
Not sure where this will take us, but it could be fun. We're going to run through a 1911 issue of American Primary Teacher. 🧐
As I'm starting up another publication here, it occurred to me that maybe I could explain why I'm passionate about this kind of stuff.
As a young, freshly minted, newly married couple, the husband and I had decided that we were blessed financially well enough that I could be a stay-at-home mom.
🚨 Caution: I'm about to speak of "tradwife" stuff here and "conservative principles," sprinkled with Belief in a Higher Power, if you should want to click away before thou gets offended or has a swift attack of "the vapors.”
Where was I? Oh yeah. We decided I'd be a stay-at-home mom to our two beautiful little girls. I would cook, clean, teach, sing, do laundry, wash dishes, draw, glue, cut out, laundry again 🙃, and wash dishes. We'd "talk to" Jesus, read our Bibles, and say our prayers.
School started. I became the taxi-mom, shuffling to daycare programs, school, gymnastics (I didn't force her; she actually loved it), playdates, parks, band concerts, practices, tennis, birthday parties, libraries. Cheerleading, soccer, volleyball, more tennis, Rocket Camp at the Science Center... The years and summers covered a lot of extracurriculars (and many, many miles).
Then during middle school, my youngest began having some anxiety things going on, so we transitioned her out of public school, and I became (gasp!) a homeschool mom from her 7th grade year through a successful high school graduation. 🥳
As the years rushed by, I felt the best chapters of my life were when my girls were babies up through elementary school. I loved to see them light up as they grasped an idea, a concept. I loved watching them learn to stick LEGOs together, when they could point to the correct color before they could even talk, and when they started learning how to read! And as they grew older, my gosh, the conversations and discussions we would have about the things they were continuing to learn—we still do that, come to think of it—and they're now 20 and 22. 🥹
Anyway, my point is that education is a huge theme that runs through our family, and as I see the education (or lack thereof) of many folks around us and throughout this country, I wonder what the hell happened. Or didn't.
As we watch episodes of Little House on the Prairie1 (yes, we still watch it—it's good for kids to see what life was like before digital technology and how kind and helpful people used to be to each other), we get into conversations about what school must have been like, you know, in the way, way back. 🕰️
Which got me to googling and Bing-ing about to see what some of the lessons were like back then. I came across an interesting publication. And I found myself losing an hour just looking through it because I found so much I wanted to share. Things that touch the heart, things that make you laugh out loud, and certainly some things that make you scratch your head and gasp, "What were they thinking?!" 😜
Here’s a small (and innocent enough) sample:
I hope we get a lot of laughs out of this!
Thanks for being great—you are appreciated!
God Bless.
Take the show for what it is and never mind the real-life drama that ended up surrounding it off screen. 🥲
hi Celena, true confession: i clicked on this particular post because of those adorable bear cubs . . . then i found an overview of a mother's journey and where did the time go? . . . now they have reached adulthood under the guidance of an attentive mom . . . bravo! . . . well done, mom . . . home schooling isn't easy but who is the best teacher? is it not the very one who teachers because she has her child's best interest always in mind and heart? . . . lastly, every man on the planet desires a "tradmom" and few ever find such a woman . . . a life well lived!
This looks so awesome, I’m looking forward to it! I love the story of how your raised your girls, too ❤️