CMP Review 2025-10-07

October 7, 2025

“Special time is allowed for Nature Books on the time tables of all forms in the P.U.S.” Oh really? Why have I never seen it in one?

That’s the question I (and others) have asked for years after reading “The Charm of Nature Study,” a 1931 Parents’ Review article. I simply could not reconcile this statement by a House of Education graduate with the many PNEU time tables I had seen (and that we have transcribed on the Charlotte Mason Poetry website).

And then another question came up: “How can I do narration with a large Sunday school class?” My son was asking this. Having grown up with narration, he wanted to share it with the children in his church. But how does it work with a class of twenty or more children?

And finally: “How can I, as just one parent, homeschool many children of many ages all at the same time?” When homeschoolers would ask me this question, I always felt like I was just making up an answer. I felt I could only guess what Charlotte Mason herself would say.

Imagine if one Parents’ Review article could solve all of these riddles.

At the Library of Congress this past summer I found it. Don’t miss the 1927 article by a school headmaster and true believer in the Charlotte Mason method. It’s just a click away. Find it here.

@artmiddlekauff