by Diana Waring | Feb 11, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Today, I’d like to introduce you to a good friend of mine. Terry Small is “The Brain Guy”—and one of the most engaging speakers on the planet! He talks about learning and about the brain—how dry is that, right? But I have watched him hold an...
by Diana Waring | Jan 28, 2013 | Miscellaneous
You know, I hadn’t watched TV since 1992 until this past year. Wow, what a statement! It rather resoundingly puts me into that category of “weird people,” doesn’t it? However, this post is not actually about the pros and cons of TV-watching....
by Diana Waring | Jan 23, 2013 | Miscellaneous
I made a mistake yesterday. Actually, I’ve made the same mistake time and time again. And, as I thought about it this morning, I thought YOU might take some good from my mistake. So, here it goes. I had been speaking at a wonderful homeschool convention in...
by Diana Waring | Jan 4, 2013 | Miscellaneous
You know the old adage, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks?” Well, thank heavens, I’m not a dog. Though this tired cliché is often used to describe what we can NOT do, I’m here to tell you that there are specific pathways we can walk in order to love learning,...
by Diana Waring | Sep 26, 2012 | Miscellaneous
So, I have a story. On August 28, as we were driving to speak to a homeschool group in Ohio, my husband and I stopped at a rest area on the interstate. There was a prominent sign for tourists at that particular rest area, describing the historic nature of nearby...
by Diana Waring | Mar 8, 2012 | Miscellaneous
“The question is not, — how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education — but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore,...