CMP Review 2023-07-24

July 24, 2023

“Lest any mother should think on reading this paper, that it is safe to give children long hours of work, let us add a rule of the Parents’ Review School which should be the rule of every home school:

“‘Five of the thirteen waking hours should be at the disposal of the children; three, at least, of these, from two o’clock till five, for example, should be spent out-of-doors in all but very bad weather. Brisk work and ample leisure and freedom should be the rule of the Home School. The work not done in its own time must be left undone. Children should not be embarrassed with arrears, and they should have a due sense of the importance of time, and that there is no other time for the work not done in its own time.’” (Charlotte Mason, “The Home School,” PR3, p. 284)

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