Podcast
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…
S10E132: Hosting a Handicraft Fair with Angel Revie
What is worth beginning is worth finishing, and what is worth doing is worth doing well. Do not let yourself begin to make a dozen things, all of them tumbling about unfinished in your box. Of course there are fifty…
S10E131: The Moral Imagination with Dr. Vigen Guroian
“Can you not see,” I said, “that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that…
S10E130: Celebrating America’s 250th in Books with Summer Smith
I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me…
