S11E151: Morning Time for Moms (and Dads!) with Erin and Kimbell Kornu, Pt. 10
Actions do not speak louder than words to a young heart; he must feel it in your touch, see it in your eye, hear it in your tones, or you will never convince child or boy that you love him, though you labor day and night for his good and his pleasure. Perhaps this is the special lesson of Christmas-tide for parents. The Son came…to reinstate men by compelling them to believe that they…live enfolded in infinite personal love, desiring with desire the response of love for love. And who, like the parent, can help forward this ‘wonderful redemption?’ The boy who knows that his father and his mother love him with measureless patience in his faults, and love him out of them, is not slow to perceive, receive, and understand the dealings of the higher Love.
Charlotte Mason, Formation of Character, p. 116
Show Summary:
- On The New Mason Jar Podcast today, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Erin and Kimbell Kornu about their own self-education as part of our Morning Time for Moms series
- How the Kornus first came to know about Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy
- What were Kimbell and Erin’s educational experiences like growing up?
- What are some of the future hopes and expectations Erin and Kimbell have for their children?
- How a life of family education works in the Kornu household
- How have Erin and Kimbell integrated hospitality into their home?
- Where can a mom (or dad) start building a habit of self-education?
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Books and Links Mentioned:
Desiring the Kingdom by James K. A. Smith
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands adapted by Michael Phillips
Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Joy of Snow by Elizabeth Goudge
Home Education by Charlotte Mason
Range by David Epstein
1776 by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
On Christian Doctrine and Practice by St. Basil the Great
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism edited by Bernard McGinn
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross
Body of Symbols by Jean Luis Chrétien
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All knowledge, dealt out to us in such portions as we are ready for, is sacred; knowledge is, perhaps, a beautiful whole, a great unity, embracing God and man and the universe, but having many parts which are not comparable with one another in the sense of less or more, because all are necessary and each has its functions.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, p. 324
