Lizzie Sanduleac’s Reviews > Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey toward Sanctification > Status Update

Their days looked something like this: math, Morning Time, Latin with me or other teacher-intensive subjects, any language arts work like handwriting or spelling drills on the computer, written nar-ration, and reading for at least two hours. Their reading lists covered almost all things we might call 'subjects.’ (92)

“Just as with our Bible memory and hymns, we always had a new poem to learn and a daily poem to review.” This expanded to famous American speeches.

“Our memorization work took on new life when we began to have recitation nights with other families… We would announce a theme and set a date about six weeks in the future, inviting several families to participate.” (76)

“That is how love works. You work hard at it and one day the work becomes joyful. Ordo Amoris. Education is the ordering of our affections. Plutarch is hard to read, but the rewards are there for those willing to try.”
(81)

On reading Shakespeare with kids
“It is probably best to start with the comedies, adding in a couple of tragedies along the way, before moving on to the histories.

I like Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice for starters or maybe The Tempest and A Midsummer's Night's Dream. The Taming of the Shrew is also a great one.

There are only two plays I don't like: Pericles and Timon of Athens.” (80)

If you have something that you want your children to assimilate like poetry or scripture or music or Shakespeare, forget the grand schemes… start giving that thing one or two minutes of your time daily and watch the years roll by. (79)

On homeschooling in the little years.
“In the mornings, after reviewing Timothy's Bible verse and acting out a few nursery rhymes, we would settle into a read aloud. Then we would go fishing, eat lunch, nap, and read again. Sometimes we would take a nature walk, picking up things to draw when we got home.” (38)

Our mornings had the same routine for over twenty years. Wake up, make your bed, read your Bible, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, do your chore, start your math, come to Morning Time. (66)