Skip the worksheets. Don’t double down on academics. Instead, spend the summer shaping your child’s character, curiosity, and love of learning.

But what does that look like practically? Here are 12 Things you can do this summer to set your child up to be more than prepared to start classes again in the fall.

Classical Christian schools approach education very differently in many ways. I like to tell those new to hearing about this ancient modality of education that we don’t teach our students what to think, but how to think. A large portion of this skill comes from not avoiding hard topics in an age appropriate way.

When talking to parents, donors, and business partners there seems to be a common theme and question woven among most conversations: what happened to the America I knew and grew up in? Classical Christian schools are working hard to address this concern and we are having incredible success in doing so.