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Thoughts from my home to yours

The Right Atmosphere

“What are children learn at home is largely invisible to us — directly connected to their experience of well-being — the atmosphere of family life.” ~The Brave Learner

Get the atmosphere right and learning blooms. Oh I know. I used the word “right” and immediately that plunges you into a pit of despair!

Let me define “right atmosphere.” Ready?

Space to Create

  • Lots of talking
  • Freedom to be yourself
  • Snacks
  • Second, third, and fourth chances
  • Hope
  • Optimism
  • Love expressed as admiration, support, collaboration
  • Time
  • Following your hunches
  • Faith in learning, not just curriculum
  • Willingness for mess, mistakes, and makeovers
  • Growing as an adult learner too
  • Add your own!

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The atmosphere that promotes learning is free, emotionally nurturing, and filled with learning opportunities of all sorts. It will look different in each family, yet the “feel” of it will be similar—growth and learning valued and sustained.

I’m reading Ainsley Arment’s book and love this quote in particular:

“Trust your natural instincts, even when you don’t know what to do, because if all else fails, you still know how to be a parent.” ~The Call of the Wild and Free

What creates the “right” atmosphere in your home? Pick one from the list above or add your own.


This post is originally from Instagram and @juliebogartwriter is my account there so come follow along for more conversations like this one!


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Friday Freewrite: Experiment

Think of a time you experimented with or tried something new and it didn’t turn out like you thought it would. Write about that experience.

New to freewriting? Check out our online guide.

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The Magic of IMMERSION

There’s a reason we go to conferences, retreats, and intensives. The power of immersion is real! We learn better and faster when we are saturated in what we’re trying to learn.

Brave Writer creates that immersive experience in our online classes, too. Our classes are short, so you can devote more time to them. And the entire class is in writing. 

Did you catch that? It may sound simple, but it’s integral to our immersive approach—writing is the vehicle for learning to write. 

The format of our classes—a writer’s workshop environment where students can read all writing submitted, not just their own—supports what they learn in class. Students:

  • Receive instruction on the class topic via engaging writing 
  • Read written instructor and student responses to their writing
  • Ask questions and receive answers in writing
  • Learn to consider audience when writing
  • Get a taste of “publishing” when they submit their work…in writing!

We want not only effective writers of assignments, but also effective  communicators in writing itself. When students engage with the written word in every aspect of the class, their experience is far richer and deeper than traditional tutorial or in-person classroom formats!


Class in Focus: The Writer’s Jungle Online

Brave Writer offers a unique 6-week coaching program just for YOU, the parent. While your kids get opportunities to write and receive comments from our instructors, you’ll learn how to coach your kids to write with confidence!

Countless parents have discovered through The Writer’s Jungle Online that writing doesn’t have to be a battleground but can be a journey into the unique, creative, quirky mind life of their children. Let’s get in there and see what they have to say, and then help them to say it—in writing! 


You can learn more about our online classes here.

We also invite you to log in to a sample class. Click around, play with our text editor, and read real instructor responses to writing posted in class.

The Writer's Jungle Online

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Boomerang Book Club: October 2019

Boomerang Book Club

A road schooler at heart? Wish you could learn another language? Meet someone from the other side of the world? Think that the curriculum you bought in September is the limit of what you can explore?

THINK AGAIN! This is how you make your world bigger than your backyard: BOOKS!

Books and perspectives outside their normal range of experience grow writers. Give your kids something to think about that’s outside the box! Reading is the easiest, safest and CHEAPEST way to see the world. 


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Check out our online Boomerang Book Club (ages 13-18) selection for October:

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez.

This is the tale of 14-year-old Lucía Álvarez, who has been relocated with her younger brother from Cuba to the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an operation that facilitated the flight of more than 14,000 Cuba children to the US to flee Fidel Castro’s revolution. Lucía misses the way it used to be before the revolution came marching into her small Cuban town and changed everything. As she adapts to her new life in the heartland of America, she wonders if she will ever see her parents, or her homeland, again.

Purchase the novel here.


A rich array of experience await! Join us and get a free copy of our language arts guide to go with the book.

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Arrow Book Club: October 2019

Arrow Book Club

Got big readers at home, devouring library books one by one? We’ve got a way to make those books last a little longer! A book club!

Save yourself the hassle of hosting though! We’ve got it all laid out for you.

Log in to the Brave Writer classroom and find:

  • enthusiastic conversationalists
  • thought-provoking questions
  • exposure to diverse opinions
  • a writing coach providing activities
  • opportunities to dig deep

All you need to do is provide the snacks!


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Here’s what Brave Writers (ages 9-12) will be reading in October’s online Arrow Book Club:

Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

This novel is the 2019 Newbery winner. It’s a heartwarming (and sometimes heart wrenching) coming-of-age story with a delightfully relatable protagonist—Merci! As she navigates 6th grade, Merci struggles with the developmental and emotional changes that come with growing up. Along with her typical tween-concerns, she must also come to understand and accept the changes brought to her tight-knit family when the effects of Alzheimer’s disease alter her beloved grandfather. This is a story about growing up, growing old, and growing as a family.

Purchase the novel here.


Brave Writer offers a virtual living room space—where students gather to freely discuss the novels they read with you at home. Join us!

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