Category: Academics

In an age of keyboards, touchscreens, and voice-to-text, handwriting is more important than ever. Handwriting gives an avenue for thought not provided by any other form of communication with the writer himself often being the first recipient of that communication…. Read More

I’m a fan of Christmas annual letters, with one caveat: those excessive letters that heap glowing helpings of Jimmy’s basketball exploits, Sally’s unparalleled success in gymnastics, and Harrison’s sheer brilliance in spelling and math. Never do we read, “Betsy barely… Read More

C.S Lewis writes in Undeceptions, “If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own… Read More

Thank you to all the parents who joined us at one or both of our Providence Foundations events this year. Keith McCurdy encouraged us to require our children to be sturdy, faithful, and responsible. He addressed the issues of technology… Read More