Don’t Let Homeschooling Emasculate Your Son w/ Adam Taylor, Thomas Fickley & Patrick Faus

Recording on location at the Kingfisher Folkfest, Jason Craig puts a blunt question to an expert panel featuring Adam Taylor of St. Martin's Academy, Thomas Fickley of St. Dunstan's Academy, and educational consultant Patrick Faus. That question? How do you keep your homeschool from emasculating your son? 

In This Episode, We Cover:

• Why anthropology determines formation, and what changes in a boy around twelve to fourteen
• Christopher Alexander's teenage cottage, and why the walls of a boy's childhood keep him a boy
• John Senior's objection to homeschooling, and the full arc Adam's father traveled on it
• What a father with only two hours a day can actually do, and why asking him to be a second mother fails
• Why the brotherhood a man keeps among other men is the thing his sons beg to join

Resources Mentioned:

• Fraternus
• The Ways of the Fathers
• St. Martin's Academy
• St. Dunstan's Academy
• The Children's Tradition
• Adam Taylor at the Cornbread Catholic Conference 

Chapters:

• 00:00: Introduction
• 03:15: Anthropology Determines Formation
• 05:56: The Age When a Boy Needs Men
• 08:41: The Teenage Cottage and the Walls of Boyhood
• 13:08: Egalitarianism Is Not a Homeschool Problem
• 18:20: John Senior's Objection to Homeschooling
• 30:36: What a Father Does With Two Hours
• 35:45: Responsibility, Risk, and the Boy at Your Elbow
• 44:26: They Don't Want an Education, They Want to Be Known
• 54:15: Brotherhood Is What Your Boys Beg to Join

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