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The State of Parenting Today

Posted by Trinitas on Feb 25, 2024 6:00:00 PM

On Thursday, March 7, Trinitas will be hosting Keith McCurdy as part of the Spring Vision Series. This free event is open to the public but tickets are required and available here. In preparation for the event, we are sharing four interviews with Keith on various topics recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live. These are great resources for all parents as they navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world. 

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Topics: Blog Posts, Parenting, Classical Education, Christian Education, Christian Living, Parent Involvement, Social Issues, Virtue

Entitled or Grateful? Choices Before the Next Generation

Posted by Trinitas on Feb 18, 2024 6:00:00 PM

On Thursday, March 7, Trinitas will be hosting Keith McCurdy as part of the Spring Vision Series. This free event is open to the public but tickets are required and available here. In preparation for the event, we are sharing four interviews with Keith on various topics recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live. These are great resources for all parents as they navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world. 

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Topics: Blog Posts, Parenting, Classical Education, Christian Education, Christian Living, Parent Involvement, Social Issues, Virtue

Modern Questions & Classical Answers

Posted by Trinitas on Feb 11, 2024 6:04:01 PM

On Thursday, March 7, Trinitas will be hosting Keith McCurdy as part of the Spring Vision Series. This free event is open to the public but tickets are required and available here. In preparation for the event, we are sharing four interviews with Keith on various topics recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live. These are great resources for all parents as they navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world. 

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Topics: Blog Posts, Parenting, Classical Education, Christian Education, Christian Living, Parent Involvement, Social Issues, Virtue

Raising Mature Kids

Posted by Trinitas on Feb 3, 2024 11:54:54 AM

On Thursday, March 7, Trinitas will be hosting Keith McCurdy as part of the Spring Vision Series. This free event is open to the public but tickets are required and available here. In preparation for the event, we are sharing four interviews with Keith on various topics recorded and made available by BaseCamp Live. These are great resources for all parents as they navigate the challenges of raising children in the modern world. 

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Topics: Blog Posts, Parenting, Classical Education, Christian Education, Christian Living, Parent Involvement, Social Issues, Virtue

Excellence vs Perfectionism: Helping Our Students Avoid Idolatry

Posted by Janine Warmouth on Dec 10, 2023 7:12:16 PM

To graduate students who can think clearly, discern wisely, and articulate winsomely classical, Christian schools must have high standards. This means that there will be a striving for excellence in all that we do. With this, we need to be very careful to pay attention to the temptations that come along with this kind of atmosphere. One such temptation that our students may face is setting up idols of perfectionism and putting their worth in their achievements.

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Topics: Blog Posts, Parenting, Classical Education, Christian Education, True Education, Social Issues, Grades, Virtue

Of Pigs and Pupils: Fast Food, Modern Education, and the Growth of Classical (Christian) Schools

Posted by Trinitas on Aug 27, 2023 6:52:25 PM

The classical school approach offers a fundamentally different vision of education that families fed up with a factory approach to learning find compelling.

Alexandra Desanctis, recently wrote in the National Review of the exponential growth of the classical Christian school movement. What accounts for the growing popularity of these classical and classical Christian schools? Why are so many families opting for a return to an older way of educating their children? Strange as it may seem, I believe this classic Chipotle video helps explain the reasons for the rapid spread of these schools.

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Topics: Blog Posts, Classical Education, True Education, Secular Education, Social Issues

Pull Them Close This Summer

Posted by Trinitas on May 22, 2023 10:52:23 AM

What's the best way to begin the summer break here at Trinitas? With a book recommendation, of course! Several years ago, I read The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis and How to Build a Culture of Self-Reliance and think that it is still of value to parents today.  The author, former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, has been in the news here in Florida frequently this year as he has assumed the helm of the University of Florida.

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Topics: Blog Posts, True Education, Parent Involvement, Social Issues

Beneath the Surface

Posted by Trinitas on Apr 16, 2023 8:20:22 PM

A quality that is disappearing from the world is the ability to see and understand what lies beneath the surface of an issue. People seem increasingly content to swallow headlines hook, line, and sinker as if the story could be no deeper than the tallest letters in bold print. This sort of naivety is the very thing that makes a people easily manipulated or even oppressed.

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Topics: Blog Posts, True Education, Social Issues

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