Love & Maneuver
Learning to teach them.
Field guides for the things we're figuring out as parents — the science laid next to how different traditions approach it, so we can navigate the terrain ourselves rather than follow a script.
These are maps, not curricula. Each one lays out the progression, shows where the established approaches agree and where they diverge, and gathers what's worth reading. We refine them as we learn.
The eight-rung climb from hearing sounds to reading fluently — and how phonics, Montessori, Orton-Gillingham, and Charlotte Mason each take it.
Balance before pedals — the case for skipping training wheels, and how to stage it.
Forming the will without breaking it — the frameworks, and what holds up day to day.
New areas get a guide as we hit them. Each starts as a skeleton and fills in over time.
A private working notebook for our family. Nothing here is professional advice — it's our reading of the terrain, written to be argued with and revised.