The Latin-Centered Curriculum

I should be receiving LCC any day now, am looking forward to reading it, as well as one of Lang's fairy tale books and some Grimm. I finished CP and read part of TWTM, so I'm ready to learn more details. I have 2 young children, DD is 4 and DS is 2 and will be homeschooling them. I've been doing some simple letter recognition and phonics work with my DD lately and she seems very receptive to it and says she wants to learn to read (a good sign). We've also been reading some Greek myths and poetry. I never really enjoyed poetry, but T- seems to like it.

My thoughts and reasons for hsing have grown over the past 2 years and been all over the spectrum. However, LCC seems to be a very good fit for my desire to give my children a solid core education (reading, writing, and arithematic) and flexibility to study what interests them. A strong reason for hsing is that I want my children to be able to think. I always thought that I was so smart growing up and not until an anthropology class when a professor asked me if I could stop reading back answers from the textbook and think for myself did I realize that I really couldn't. I'd just always gone along with what was taught to me without analyzing, examining, and thinking. And I don't want my children to ever have that awful and shameful feeling that I had.

Also, just wondering if anyone has read The Grammar of our Civility: Classical Education in America by Lee Pearcy. I've found a couple of short (and one long) reviews and was curious about any opinions on it.

Karen