A weekly rhythm, parent-led.

Each Sunday, a parent signs in to see the week’s plan: one lesson from each of the five curricula, chosen to fit the child’s age and current place in each track. Three or four lessons any given week is the target. Fifteen minutes each. Read aloud at the table or before bed.

Miss a week and the next plan arrives as if you hadn’t. Nothing to catch up on. Nothing to feel guilty about. The goal is rhythm, not completion — though across a decade the rhythm covers nearly all of the library on its own.

Every lesson is short enough to read in fifteen minutes and deep enough to talk about for a week. The shape is the same from age six to eighteen; only the difficulty changes.

Core Idea

One sentence capturing the lesson’s central insight.

Why It Matters

Why this concept is worth knowing — grounded in real life, not theory.

A Story

An original parable or scenario with named characters. Read it together.

Vocabulary

Key terms in plain language. Words your child will actually use.

Guided Teaching

The heart of the lesson — frameworks and questions for parent-led conversation.

Pattern to Notice

What to watch for in everyday life. How the concept becomes a habit of perception.

Good Response

How a wise person applies the understanding — seeing clearly and acting well.

Misuse Warning

How this concept could make someone manipulative or cynical if applied without moral grounding. Every lesson includes one.

Discussion Questions

Five questions for conversation. Use the ones that fit; skip the rest.

Parent Note

Private guidance for you. Written to prepare you for the conversation.

You don’t need to be an expert. You don’t need to have all the answers. A parent who can read can lead a lesson.

1. Read the lesson first, alone. Ten minutes. The parent note at the bottom is written for you.
2. Read the story together.Let your child react. Ask what they noticed. Don’t rush to explain.
3. Use the guided teaching as a conversation. Follow their answers. If they go somewhere unexpected, follow that too.
4. Read the misuse warning together. This is not optional. Naming the shadow of a concept is part of the lesson.

Every week’s plan draws one lesson from each of five curricula. The child learns them together, because they are the same five kinds of seeing, sharpened on different material.

Realism, Power & Judgment

How power, incentives, institutions, and human nature actually work.

Clear Speech

How to think with precision and speak with courage.

The Ledger

The virtues and arithmetic of money.

The Examined Life

How to notice beauty, develop gratitude, and think seriously about what a good life requires.

The Long View

How civilizations rise, drift, and fall.

Each curriculum unfolds across five levels, from age six through eighteen — The Examined Life extends into a sixth, for older students working on legacy and vocation. Start where the concepts feel like a stretch but not a reach.

Four lessons a week, fifty-two weeks a year, for twelve years, adds up to roughly two and a half thousand lessons. The library contains one thousand four hundred forty. The math is deliberate: there is room to skip, to linger, to re-read an older lesson with older eyes, and to take as many weeks off as a family needs, without ever running out.

A child who starts at seven finishes the core library around fourteen, then spends the remaining years returning to the harder material with a mind that has grown into it.

One family membership covers every child in the household. Each child has their own profile, their own age, and their own position in each track — so a twelve-year-old and a seven-year-old see entirely different plans, at the same dinner table, on the same Sunday.

Progress is remembered automatically. If you come back after a month away, the next week’s plan is waiting.