--- title: Covenant Classical School Blog | Parenting description: Parenting | Read this helpful blog by Covenant Classical School to get insights into educating young Christians. --- [![Untitled design-9-2](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled%20design-9-2.png?width=495&height=108&name=Untitled%20design-9-2.png "Untitled design-9-2")](https://www.covenantclassical.org/) [Parent Links](https://www.covenantclassical.org/parent-links) | [Contact](https://www.covenantclassical.org/contact-us) [ 704.792.1854](tel:17047921854)     # Covenant Classical School Blog ### Never miss an update! Subscribe to our blog. ## [Reasons to Keep Reading - The Reading Life of an Accidental English Teacher](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/the-reading-life-of-an-accidental-english-teacherand-embedded-book-titles-to-add-to-your-reading-list) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/BBS/happy%20students%20posing%20(1).jpeg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/the-reading-life-of-an-accidental-english-teacherand-embedded-book-titles-to-add-to-your-reading-list) “I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.” {Towles, [*Rules of...*](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14950407) ## [Carrying the Covenant](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/carrying-the-covenant) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/BBS/happy%20students%20posing%20(1).jpeg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/carrying-the-covenant) As we read through Genesis in my sixth-grade class, certain life lessons seem to leap off the page: how to exercise faith muscles, how to rely on God instead of taking matters into our own hands, how to get along, that sort of thing. We find it is... ## [Parenting and God's Plumb Line](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/parenting-and-gods-plumb-line) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/BBS/happy%20students%20posing%20(1).jpeg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/parenting-and-gods-plumb-line) Weren’t you flabbergasted the first time you watched your child’s brow furrow as they looked you right in the eye and shouted, “NO!”? I was! I was appalled! I’d birthed a bundle of joy, lovingly fed and nurtured her, kept her warm and dry. What did... ## [Five Important Questions to Consider When Choosing a Kindergarten](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/five-important-questions-to-consider-when-choosing-a-kindergarten-0-0) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/IMG_1335.jpg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/five-important-questions-to-consider-when-choosing-a-kindergarten-0-0) Choosing a great Kindergarten program for your child is daunting but not impossible! Parents want a safe and loving environment for their child where values that have been taught at home are reinforced. Parents also want their child to be... ## [Classical Parenting 101: Resources](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-resources) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-14%20at%2010.05.06%20PM.png) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-resources) Our goal is to empower and inform our families with classical, Christian education knowledge and support.  Today we would like to tell you about a new resource that our Heads of School recommend: ["The Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century...](https://www.amazon.com/Battle-American-Mind-Uprooting-Miseducation/dp/0063215047/ref=asc_df_0063215047/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=564725475526&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5016385089061430703&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9009899&hvtargid=pla-1599210329190&psc=1) ## [Classical Parenting 101- Get Lost](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-get-lost) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/Untitled%20design-jpg.jpeg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-get-lost) Join us for the second week of our Classical Parenting 101 Series! If you missed last week, you can read that article and the heart behind the series [HERE](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-just-a-shot-away-how-to-shelter-your-children). ## [Classical Parenting 101- Just a Shot Away: How to Shelter Your Children](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-just-a-shot-away-how-to-shelter-your-children) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/BBS/happy%20students%20posing%20(1).jpeg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/classical-parenting-101-just-a-shot-away-how-to-shelter-your-children) As we link arms with our Covenant families in the throws of raising children in a christian, classical environment, we want to be a resource to each of you on your journey. In this new series we will be sharing articles that our staff have found to... ## ["Raising Sturdy Children": A Free Community Event Presented by Covenant Classical School](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/raising-sturdy-children-a-free-community-event-presented-by-covenant-classical-school) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/IMG_2375..jpg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/raising-sturdy-children-a-free-community-event-presented-by-covenant-classical-school) Please join our our CCS families on September 9th at 6:30pm at Covenant Classical School for a free community event featuring Mr. Keith McCurdy, MA., ED, S. President and CEO of Total Life Counseling, Inc. located in Roanoke, VA. ## [Five Important Questions to Consider When Choosing a Kindergarten](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/five-important-questions-to-consider-when-choosing-a-kindergarten-0) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/IMG_1335.jpg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/five-important-questions-to-consider-when-choosing-a-kindergarten-0) Choosing a great Kindergarten program for your child is daunting but not impossible! Parents want a safe and loving environment for their child where values that have been taught at home are reinforced. Parents also want their child to be... ## [The Magic of Houses - The Magical Art of Pretend](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/the-magic-of-houses-the-magical-art-of-pretend) [![](https://www.covenantclassical.org/hubfs/Oct%202012%20081.jpg) ](https://www.covenantclassical.org/blog/the-magic-of-houses-the-magical-art-of-pretend) Have you hauled out the play-clothes box with the advent of this quarantine? Or have you now created one from old slips, vests, and hats? You may have found yourself captured by the imagination of your children. Here is a piece I wrote, oh, probably... 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