The longer Rachel and I apply the 7 Keys and other principles of TJEd, the clearer it becomes to us that modern society has made four dangerous mistakes. Since I prefer to emphasize the positive, I consider them four opportunities to do things better than [...]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins by Oliver DeMille “Somehow it all comes back to coal in school. Besides basic reading and math, most of our instruction is coal-related. Except for the weekly lecture on the history of Panem. It’s mostly a lot of blather [...]
By Oliver DeMille “Do you love your country?” my daughter Meri asked enthusiastically. “I’ve been reading Anne of Green Gables and I love my country as much as she did!” Nearly everyone says “yes” when asked this question, but let’s look a little deeper. Do [...]
By Oliver DeMille I recently read a fantastic quote that made me think of your home. And mine. And everyone else’s who is raising great children and youth. It reminded me that today’s young people are an amazing generation, and I’m convinced that God has [...]
By Oliver DeMille During the last decade a number of books on education have promoted the need to put freedom back into our schools. I have long called this the Thomas Jefferson Education (TJEd) approach to learning, and I have enjoyed the many books and [...]
By Oliver DeMille At the beginning of the year I wrote two articles suggesting that the most important thing parents can do during the winter months to help their kids’ education was to read important books as a family in the evenings (or in [...]
I thought this article was so good that I'm posting it as this week's Weekly Mentor! "Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?" by Christine Gross-Loh>> And, here's an additional article, by my wife Rachel: For the Love of Words (and kids) by Rachel DeMille [...]
By Oliver DeMille Once again in 2013 we have a new focus in feminism. Years ago, feminism stood for the rights of women, and later an emphasis on women being treated the same as men. Then came the time when feminism was all about career [...]
By Oliver DeMille Years ago, we took our kids to a Fourth of July party with some family friends. My parents seldom went to such events with us when I was young, so Rachel and I make a point of it. The mom of the [...]
What this Generation of Children Really Wants from Parents In a survey conducted by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute over a thousand children were asked, “If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?” What would your children [...]
