S7E99: 25 Books of Christmas with Jeannette Tulis
Now imagination does not descend, full grown, to take possession of an empty house; like every other power of the mind, it is the merest germ of a power to begin with, and grows by what it gets; and childhood,…
S7E98: Advent Art Study and Devotions with Rebecca Zipp
The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before. It is not possible to keep it from coming, because it will. That’s just how Advent works. What is possible…
S7E97: AmblesideOnline with Special Needs Students with Jen Sova
But our fault, our exceeding great fault, is that we keep our own minds and the minds of our children shamefully underfed. The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of…
S7E96: Morning Time for Moms Part 5 with Elaine Shutt
I know you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. What I complain of is that we do not bring our horse to the water. We give him miserable little text-books, mere compendiums of…
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S7E95: Karen Glass on “Much May Be Done with Sparrows”
Town children may get a great deal of pleasure in watching the ways of sparrows––knowing little birds, and easily tamed by a dole of crumbs,––and their days out will bring them in the way of new acquaintances. But much may…
S7E94: Fall Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis
To know a plant by its gesture and habitat, its time and its way of flowering and fruiting; a bird by its flight and song and its times of coming and going; to know when, year after year, you may…
S7E93: The Beauty of Math in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Denise Gaskins
‘Two and two make four’ and cannot by any possibility that the universe affords be made to make five or three. From this point of view, of immutable law, children should approach Mathematics; they should see how impressive is Euclid’s…
S7E92: Story, Rhyme, and Song with Kay Pelham
“But how ready we are to conclude that children cannot be expected to understand spiritual things. Our own grasp of the things of the Spirit is all too lax, and how can we expect that the child’s feeble intelligence can…
S7E91: Remix – Growing up in a Charlotte Mason Home with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp
“Love, and the service of love, are the only things that count.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, Ourselves Show Summary: Listen Now: Books Mentioned: Ourselves by Charlotte Mason In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Jane Eyre…
S7E90: Remix Episode – Have a Happier Homeschool with Lynn Bruce (S1E5)
The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character––the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of…
