They say that when you sing, you pray twice. I say when you show students a video, you teach twice—sometimes for half the work. Of course it has to be a good video, and those can be hard to find. Nevertheless, I recently found an excellent online resource loaded with good videos. It is called…
I recently perused an article on “The 25 things you should learn to DIY this year,” and it struck me that many of the ideas were not all that practical. For most homeowners—especially those of us with stereotypically large Catholic families—practicality and savings should be a big consideration when deciding what to do by yourself. If…
I loved math as a kid, but thanks to my wife’s diligent homeschooling, my kids are way ahead of where I was. I didn’t start learning the multiplication tables until I was 9; my 7-year-old already knows multiplication and division by heart. This success has a lot to do with a great program called Math…
As a result of poor care by the previous occupants of our house, several of our closets have suspended doors that continually fall off of the track. You merely touch the door to open it and it plops down and refuses to move. Typically, for a short-term fix I have to get into the closet,…
We parents usually have plenty of funny stories about the things kids say. Many of my favorites come from my very imaginative second child, Lucía (age 5), sometimes in concert with my oldest, Grace (age 7). Once when I was reading a bedtime story, two-year-old Lucía, exclaimed, “I want to whee-haa!” Before I could ask…
I recently hit the jackpot in terms of book ownership. A nearby religious community was purging their entire library, and I managed to pick up nearly 400 volumes of mostly rare and classic theology and philosophy books. I picked up plenty from Ratzinger, Rahner, and Newman, as well as possibly the complete works of Fulton…
Catechizing 7th graders can be a challenge, but once in a while my plans succeed. This happened recently with my activity for designing posters advertising virtues. As Catholics we have some basic theological points to cover with regard to the virtues, and this requires some memorization on the part of the students. There are the…
Hello world! We’re happy to announce the beginning of our new blog. We are Michael Anthony and Danielle Abril, and we’re both experienced with the Internet but we’ve been too busy living life to blog in recent years. Danielle once ran a great blog called clothdiapertales.com back when we only had one kid to chase…