When I first began to implement Miss Mason’s methods I may have thought, a time or two, that things must have been so much easier for the mothers and governesses in Mason’s time. The mothers were all upper class gentlewomen, right? Wrong, actually. But did that really matter anyway? Even for the women who had …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. In a previous post I talked about what a lovely and enriching experience it has been for our family to be part of Considering Lilies, our Charlotte Mason community. We are in our third year together and have settled into some comfortable rhythms and useful practices. …
Atmosphere, Discipline & Life at the Dinner Table ©2017 Anna Migeon “If the child dislike his dinner, he swallows it, but the digestion of that distasteful meal is a laborious, much-impeded process.… Hence it is not a matter of pampering them at all, but a matter of health, of due nutrition, that the children should enjoy …
©2017 Steve and Marcia Mattern Art asked us to share about how we integrate Charlotte Mason’s ideas with our Catholic faith. We initially thought it could be helpful to develop lists of citations and quotes from Catholic teachings and from Charlotte Mason, not to suggest an inorganic admixture of the two orientations, but rather to establish …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. By the time my daughter reached the age for formal schooling, we had already decided to follow Charlotte Mason’s method. Barbara and I divided up the subjects and one that I took was Bible. I trusted the method with my own child-like faith, and implemented …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. Friendship is not something that has ever come easily to me. Don’t get me wrong, I have always had friends, but, except for my husband, my best friend since I was eighteen, I have always held back something of myself. For eleven years I worked …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. Susan Schaeffer Macaulay wrote: Try a simple experiment. Take a small child on your knee. Respect him. Do not see him as something to prune, form, or mold. This is an individual who thinks, acts, and feels. He is a separate human being whose strength …
An idyll is defined as “a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment.” In Charlotte Mason’s 1912 article entitled “Three Educational Idylls,” she includes a footnote in which she recommends that educators implementing her method should read her volumes every two years. …
A few years ago when I was preparing a presentation for a Charlotte Mason conference, I surveyed the covers of books about Charlotte Mason. Most of the covers had a picture of a woman teaching a girl – presumably a mother and a daughter. Some of the covers skipped the mother and only showed the …