Thomas Alva Edison’s mother Nancy is one of my homeschool heroines. In 1847 Nancy and her husband Samuel were living in Milan, Ohio, when she gave birth to their seventh child, Thomas. Nancy Edison was the daughter of a soldier…
I have mentioned before the wonderful children’s song: Be careful little eyes what you see. Be careful little eyes what you see. The Father up above is looking down in love, So be careful little eyes what you see. As…
Yesterday Ray and I enjoyed going through some pictures from our precious homeschooling days. Ah, I miss it! I have enjoyed sharing the history of homeschooling in the nineties this week. Here is a link to Part 1 on Monday…
Nancy Edison was a homeschool heroine. She and her husband Samuel lived in Milan, Ohio, in 1847 when she gave birth to their seventh child, Thomas. Nancy Edison was the daughter of a soldier in the American Revolution. Her husband…
As you have likely learned already, the prolific inventor Thomas Edison went to school for only a few months. After his schoolmaster called him “addled,” his mother took him out of school and taught him at home. From childhood he was…
As we gathered in the hotel lobby before heading to the Old North Church in Boston, I tried to get directions. A hotel employee who didn’t seem to know for sure himself how to get there tried to help me in…
