Built by a Charlotte Mason Mom and Dad

Like in so many homeschool households, the mom carries the heart of the daily education. Anna is the one doing the real work: planning the terms, gathering the living books, reading aloud, guiding morning time, listening to narrations, and helping the children build good habits day in and day out.

She loves the Charlotte Mason approach—the living books, the poetry, the nature study, the hymns sung together in the living room. But alongside that beautiful philosophy was a constant, exhausting practical struggle: searching for books and having to search from link to link across multiple websites.

On any given school morning, she was constantly jumping from link to link: one website for the curriculum schedule, another to find a booklist, another to track down an old public domain text, and yet another just to find hymn lyrics without ads popping up over the words.

Instead of simply sitting down to read and sing with her children, she was spending valuable energy searching from link to link, bookmarking chapters, and trying to remember where each child left off.

Justin, her husband, is a nerd. While Anna was in the trenches teaching and caring for the kids, Justin was there for support—and he hated seeing how much extra friction she was dealing with just to manage the school day.

He realized that while the Charlotte Mason books and ideas are timeless, the tools moms were using were completely scattered. Software designed for institutional classrooms didn’t fit the rhythm of a living home, and spreadsheets only added another chore to an already full day.

Justin wanted to support Anna in the way he knew how: by building something that would take the friction away. He set out to build an app where everything she needed—the weekly schedule, the living books, the hymn lyrics, and the student portfolios—lived in one quiet, unified place, with zero link hunting required.

Because Living Term was built to help Anna in their own home, every design decision was shaped by what actually made her mornings smoother:

• No More Link Hunting: Tapping a scheduled lesson immediately opens the unabridged chapter or hymn with zero website hopping.
• Built-In Living Library: Over 235 classic living books, history spines, and nature booklets formatted cleanly with warm paper backgrounds.
• Clean Public Domain Hymnal: Complete traditional stanzas, tune names, and sing-along links without ad banners or commercial noise.
• Effortless Keepsake Portfolio: Snap phone photos of watercolor sketches, copywork, and narrations, and export clean CSV records for state reviews.
• Quiet and Distraction-Free: No gamification, no loud cartoon animations, and no commercial ads. Just a calm companion that stays out of the way.

What started as a husband wanting to help his wife quickly grew into a mission to support other homeschool moms facing the exact same frustrations.

Homeschool moms already work tirelessly. They shouldn’t have to spend hours managing bookmarks and juggling links just to give their children a rich, living education.

Living Term is independent, family-built, and straightforward: