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 …
Although I grew up Episcopalian, I spent most of my adult years attending independent and non-denominational churches. My return to the Anglican church in 2007 was directly linked to my study of Charlotte Mason’s writings and my reflection on her ideas. In the fall of 2007, I discovered a small Anglican church plant in my …
“Well, I don’t say but you may get to know about most things from books, but as for knowing the thing itself, let me be introduced by him that knew it before me!” (Volume 5, p. 123) When I began to read Charlotte Mason’s writings in early 2005, my purpose was to become a more …
“Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything — a consuming fire in the bones” (Charlotte Mason) We made the decision to homeschool when my first son was a toddler. I realized that homeschooling would require an enormous amount of time. So I counted the cost and figured out a schedule that would work for …
At the 2007 ChildLightUSA Charlotte Mason Educational Conference, on Thursday morning Amber Benton led a discussion called “A Sense of Place.” She talked about how we should know the place where we are, the place that God has called us to. She talked about the history of creeks and streams in her own area and …