Interviews
S11E144: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math with Denise Gaskins
The intellectual life, like every manner of spiritual life, has but one food whereby it lives and grows––the sustenance of living ideas. It is not possible to repeat this too often or too emphatically, for perhaps we err more in…
S10E143: AmblesideOnline Groups with Naomi Goegan and Cheri Hall
Are we not justified in concluding that singular effects must have commensurate causes, and that we have chanced to light on unknown tracts in the region of educational thought. At any rate that GOLDEN RULE of which Comenius was in…
S10E141: The New St. Nicholas Magazine with Fiona and Miranda Altschuler
Is {St Nicholas} not the boys’ and girls’ own Saint, the especial friend of young Americans?… And what is more, isn’t he the kindest, best, and jolliest old dear that ever was known?… He has attended so many heart-warmings in…
S10E140: Helping High-Schoolers Shine with Rachel Kovac
Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Their Future is Shining Bright by Rachel Kovac Find Cindy and Rachel: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram…
S10E139: Charlotte Mason’s Tools for History Study with Celeste Cruz
This, then, is the purpose of narration—a purpose which we would do well to keep constantly before us. There should be no misconception. It is not a teacher’s device designed to find out if the child has completed a given…
S10E138: Amy Snell on Studying History with Charlotte Mason
The Parents’ Union School curriculum aims at giving the child ideas which will grow into principles of conduct, ideas of eternal truths. Her books are largely chosen for the purpose of training her capacity to differentiate and to see the…
S10E136: Homeschooling Through Hard Times with Stacy Halley
By the saying, Education is an atmosphere, it is not meant that a child should be isolated in what may be called a ‘child environment,’ especially adapted and prepared; but that we should take into account the educational value of…
S10E135: The Singing Family with Nate and Jess Roberts
Perhaps we do not attach enough importance to the habit of praise in our children’s devotion. Praise and thanksgiving come freely from the young heart; gladness is natural and holy, and music is a delight. The singing of hymns at…
S10E134: Morning Time for Moms, Pt. 9, with Emily Raible
Of course it is only now and then that a notion catches the small boy, but when it does catch, it works wonders, and does more for his education than years of grind. Charlotte Mason, from School Education, p. 162-163…
S10E133: Presidential Libraries and Biographies with Erin Kunkle
To give the child some idea of what has gone on in the world before he arrived;To take him out of his little self-centered, shut-in life, which looms so large because it is so close to his eyes;To extend his…
