Pagan Parenting

Category: education

  • My First Little Workbook of Wicca

    (Review originally published 2013, book purchased by the reviewer) My biggest complaint: this book is perfect bound, and as a workbook, I really wish it was either spiral bound, or had tear-out pages, or something. I could see kids doing these pages over and over again, and I’ve recently come upon several ways to re-use…

  • A Witch’s Primer, Grade 1

    (Review originally published 2012, book purchased by reviewer) Let’s start with the basics:  I bought this book to review because I really liked the premise. Ms. Manderly says in the intro that she is interested in the idea of a Pagan school (parochial school) and felt there wasn’t anything out there that would serve as…

  • Revival in School?

    In early February, a school in West Virginia made the news for having a Christian revival at school during school hours, which some teachers stated was mandatory. As you might expect, some students and parents (rightfully) pointed out that this is illegal. Students staged a walk-out. The school contends that this event happened during a…

  • Review: Kindling Sparks

    (book purchased by reviewer) So, a month or two back I ran across a clergy person on Patreon and discovered that they were in the process of publishing a book. Specifically, “Kindling Sparks: A Religious Education Program for Young Pagans.” Many of the things from this book are on Rev. Jan Avende’s Patreon, but having…

  • Schooling

    So, here we are. I’ve been adding homeschool resources, and deleting one site that went out of business. I’ve also been thinking a lot about schooling in general. We’ve been very child-led this year, and debating not going back to school at all. But I’ve also been wondering what happened to all the resources that…

  • Review: A Witch’s Primer, Grade 2 and A Witch’s Primer, Grade 3

    (review originally published November 2014, books purchased by the reviewer) I reviewed A Witch’s Primer, Grade 1, a while back. I mentioned then, and still believe with these two books, that while Ms. Manderly set out to create a text appropriate to teach religion in a Pagan parochial school, and I think these fail at that.…

  • Review: Pagan Degrees for Children

    (review originally published in 2013, book purchased by reviewer) I really wasn’t sure what to think of this book based on the title. But reading it, it’s actually a really well designed curriculum for teaching kids the basics of “Paganism” (more accurately, Wicca) without being the sort of typical Wicca 101 book. It’s set up…

  • Review: Paganism for Kiddos

    (review originally published in 2013, book purchased by reviewer) This book caught me by surprise, during one of my regular sweeps of Amazon for new books for Pagan families. This is, frankly, the book I’ve been looking for – a nice intro to Paganism for kids as young as elementary school. For being a short…

  • Pagan Homeschooling in the Era of Social Distancing

    I am not a homeschooling mom – not really. We did a lot of preschool at home because my children were medically fragile and not really capable of going to preschool at 3, and barely managed it at 4 (my oldest missed something like 27 days of school that year due to illness; it was…

  • Review: The Junior Witch’s Handbook

    (book purchased by reviewer) I ordered this book with my own “nearly 7 year old” junior witch in mind. My own little witchling is somewhat younger than the suggested reader age of 8 – 12 years old but, I wanted to add something to our ever-growing home library to have to hand when the time…