that is the essence of cancel culture, right? It's trying to define the cool kids table. Yeah. And shut you out of it. It's a bunch of vicious mean girls. We have weaponized the mean girl mentality on a cultural level. And the only proper way to respond to that is to roll your eyes.

Welcome to Skalae Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama, who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us and the trenches of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done.

I'm your host, Brandy Vensel.

You can find me over at Afterthoughts blog.net, spreading my Charlotte Mason Joy through blog posts,

study guides, audios, and more.

My co-hosts today are Misty Winkler and Abby Wall.

Misty is a second-generation homeschooler with five kids and too many projects.

With her blog, podcast, and membership, she helps you organize your attitude

so you can organize your life. Find her over at simplyconvial.com. Abby is basically the

queen of the Scholei Sisters' sister ship. Abby is a country-living farmer-rancher, a loving wife, and, and mom of five who homeschools and reads whenever she can.

Next month, the month of May, is our annual spring training, as you well know.

We are pleased to announce that our coach this year is the one and only Rosaria Butterfield,

author of a number of wonderful books, including The Secret Thoughts of an Unlily Convert,

and the gospel comes with a house key.

While registration is not yet open, now is the perfect time to go ahead and sign up for

your Sophie membership. You'll get all the normal

fabulous benefits of being a Sophie, and as usual, the spring training sessions are included

in your membership at no extra charge. Head on over to scolacisters.com slash sistership and sign up.

In today's episode, Misty, Abby, and I discuss our way through the entire thinking

person's checklist at the back of Alan Jacobs' book How to Think.

This was a fun and interesting conversation to have, and I think you're really going to

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