S9E123: A Day in the Life with Little Ones with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp
It would be well if we all persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could make up our minds that there is no sort of knowledge to be got in these early years so valuable to children as that which they get for themselves of the world they live in. Let them once get touch with Nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life.
Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home Education
Show Summary:
- This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn sit down for a chat with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp, an AmblesideOnline graduate, pastor’s wife, and homeschooling mom on the realities of Charlotte Mason homeschooling with little ones
- How Caitlin came to own the Charlotte Mason philosophy for herself
- What a typical day looks like for Caitlin’s family currently
- How learning to change your expectations can positively affect your homeschooling
- What are some of the things that Caitlin recommends to deal with littles while trying to stay on track with older students
- What Caitlin has done with her children when they are ready for phonics and reading
- Some of Caitlin’s children’s favorite books so far
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Books Mentioned:
Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose by Richard Scarry
Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
Mother Goose by Tasha Tudor
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley
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Guard the nursery; let nothing in that has not the true literary flavour; let the children grow up on a few books read over and over, and let them have none, the reading of which does not cost an appreciable mental effort. This is no hardship. Activity, effort, whether of body or mind, is joyous to a child.
Charlotte Mason, Vol. 5, Formation of Character
