Habits at Home: A Conversation With Jennifer Pepito
Charlotte Mason wrote, “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.” In other words, “parents and teachers should know how to make sensible use of a child’s circumstances (atmosphere) to forward his sound education; should train him in the discipline of the habits of the good life; and should nourish his life with ideas, the food upon which personality waxes strong.”
Many studies have been made of each of these instruments of education — the atmosphere of home, the discipline of habit, and living ideas. But few studies have explored the synergy between and interdependence of these instruments.
Jennifer Pepito has. The fruit of her quarter-century of homeschooling, many years of coaching and mentoring, and countless hours of reading and reflection is a new and unique volume, a mosaic of habit and life, atmosphere and home, by which three instruments of education blend into one.
And she has ordered this mosaic around an enduring theme. It’s a theme not mentioned in Mason’s volumes, but nevertheless not foreign to the Charlotte Mason community today. You may have heard Melanie Walker-Malone talk about it last week. It is a theme that enables habit and life to be bound together into a rule. The rule of a saint named Benedict.
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer about Charlotte Mason, habits at home, and her new book. Listen in here:
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