S8E109: Speech and Debate from a Charlotte Mason Perspective with Hailey and Vivien White
Who can take the measure of a child? The Genie of the Arabian tale is nothing to him. He, too, may be let out of his bottle and fill the world. But woe to us if we keep him corked…
S8E108: Remix of Spring Nature Study with Jeannette
They notice for themselves, and the teacher gives a name and other information as it is asked for… In this way they lay up that store of “common information”… and what is more important, they learn to know and delight…
S8E107: Homeschooling as a Military Family with Zach and Andrea Vaughn
There is no escape for us, no short cut; art is long, especially the art of living. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, p. 315 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins For the Children’s…
S8E106: Using Math Journals and Games with Denise Gaskins
School and society teach us to view mathematics as a race. You run as fast as you can from one topic to the next. But let me give you a new vision of mathematics. I want you to think of…
S8E105: Personal Bible Study with Stephanie Russell
I fear I am exceeding the space allowed to me so will offer just one other little word of counsel–study… Every hour of definite study enriches your mind and increases your power, so that, the more you study in your…
S8E104: Misrepresentations of a Charlotte Mason Education with Karen Glass
We endeavour that all our teaching and treatment of children shall be on the lines of nature, their nature and ours, for we do not recognise what is called ‘Child-nature.’ We believe that children are human beings at their best…
S8E102: Morning Time for Moms, Part 6, with Megan Graham
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading…
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…
