Sep 1, 2026 · 46 min · 13 segments
Nick Robinson begins our second season sharing insight and wisdom from a homeschool dad. Nick shares how he and his wife navigate being working parents and sharing the homeschooling load. He also…
Nick RobinsonGuestKaylaHostKatHostThat's so cool.
And you talked about a couple of things with classical conversations that I would like to dig into a little bit because we have had some guests on who are from some of the other approaches to homeschooling, but you're our first guest who has experience with classical conversations.
Can you share with any of our listeners who maybe aren't familiar, what is this approach and then anything else you think that people would need to know if they wanted to learn more?
So the basic rundown of what classical conversations and from now on, I'm going to say CC because it's shorter.
So the first few years are very based on memorization of simple things like memorizing multiplication tables.
So every three years, we start over with cycle one and we memorize the same stuff over and over again.
And then we kind of walk through and we'll either have a second math curriculum that we'll kind of work through as well that pairs with it.
And then we go on to a geography sentence and we might have a conversation about, hey, what are why are they called the Great Lakes and why are they called Lake Erie? And we'll have conversations, classic ones, too.
where everything that you're teaching could easily be replicated with just a stick in the sand.
That's so cool.
And you talked about a couple of things with classical conversations that I would like to dig into a little bit because we have had some guests on who are from some of the other approaches to homeschooling, but you're our first guest who has experience with classical conversations.
Can you share with any of our listeners who maybe aren't familiar, what is this approach and then anything else you think that people would need to know if they wanted to learn more?
So the basic rundown of what classical conversations and from now on, I'm going to say CC because it's shorter.
So the first few years are very based on memorization of simple things like memorizing multiplication tables.
So every three years, we start over with cycle one and we memorize the same stuff over and over again.
And then we kind of walk through and we'll either have a second math curriculum that we'll kind of work through as well that pairs with it.
And then we go on to a geography sentence and we might have a conversation about, hey, what are why are they called the Great Lakes and why are they called Lake Erie? And we'll have conversations, classic ones, too.
where everything that you're teaching could easily be replicated with just a stick in the sand.
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