by Indy Classical School | Oct 7, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Around age 11 or 12, something shifts in your kid’s brain, and you will know exactly when it happens because every sentence you say will suddenly get a rebuttal. You ask for the dishes to be done and receive a 4 minute argument about how...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 6, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Your 5 year old just spent 25 minutes explaining, with great authority and zero evidence, why her stuffed giraffe is technically a mayor. She has strong opinions about dinosaurs, can recite an entire commercial jingle she heard once at a restaurant, and asks...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 1, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Somewhere there’s a parent googling “do I need to know Latin to teach Latin” at 11pm, half panicked, half intrigued, fully aware they haven’t conjugated a verb since a half remembered high school class 20 years ago. Relax. You genuinely do not...
by Indy Classical School | Sep 29, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Picture 7:45am at your house. Somebody can’t find a shoe, somebody else is negotiating with the dog over a slice of toast, and you’re holding a coffee that has already gone lukewarm. Now picture the same hour with everyone on the couch, a stack of good...
by Indy Classical School | Sep 28, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Your 5 year old can describe every single detail of last Saturday’s trip to Target, including which aisle had the good stickers and exactly how loud the toddler in the cart was screaming. Ask that same kid what happened in the story you just read aloud, and...
by Indy Classical School | Sep 24, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Open a browser tab, search “classical curriculum,” and prepare yourself for roughly 400 options claiming to be the one true path to raising a well educated kid. Some cost $50. Some cost $800. Some come in a giant box that shows up on your porch looking...