Podcast appearances and mentions of charlotte mason method

With the Charlotte Mason Method, students learn handwriting in a natural way. Here's how it works. Charlotte Mason Language Arts: Handwriting originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

With the Charlotte Mason Method, students learn handwriting in a natural way. Here's how it works. Charlotte Mason Language Arts: Handwriting originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

There are so many different styles of homeschooling that families can implement for their learning lifestyle. From classical to unschooling, Charlotte Mason to unit studies, we break down what each style looks like in practice—along with the unique benefits and challenges they bring. Whether you're new to homeschooling or considering a shift in your current approach, this episode offers clarity and inspiration to help you find the right fit for your family. SHOW NOTES: Visit our website! If you have any questions or comments, please email us at happyhomeschoolpod@gmail.com Visit Transcript Maker and get your 14-day free trial! Like our page and join our group on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! Waldorf Education: 100+ Years of Transformative Learning | AWSNA The spark of unfolding knowledge | Charlotte Mason Institute Charlotte Mason method homeschool curriculum and helps AmblesideOnline - Charlotte Mason Curriculum Christian Group Homeschool Programs | Classical Conversations Memoria Press: Christian Classical Education For more information about the homeschooling styles mentioned on today's show, check out these past Happy Homeschooler Podcast episodes: 055: What Is Gameschooling? 063: What Is Unschooling? 077: Alternative Homeschooling Styles 091: What is The Charlotte Mason Method? 093: What is The Montessori Method? 094: Get Out in Nature! 109: All About the Waldorf Method 113: All About Worldschooling 141: Getting Kids Outside (w/ Barefoot University) 154: How To Create Unit Studies The Happy Homeschooler Podcast is a Transcript Maker Production. It is hosted by Holly Williams Urbach and Jennifer Jones, produced by Matthew Bass, and edited by Norah Williams. Our logo is by Norah Williams and our music is by The Great Pangolin. If you liked this episode, and you'd like to help us grow, leave us a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Why is there so much emphasis on good habits in the Charlotte Mason Method of homeschooling? What's the Point of Good Habits? originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Why is there so much emphasis on good habits in the Charlotte Mason Method of homeschooling? What's the Point of Good Habits? originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Sarah Potter who made a big change in her homeschool after graduating the first of her six children and enrolling her remaining students in a not-so-local hybrid CM Cottage School. Sarah shares the factors that led her to make this decision, the hard parts as well as the wonderful benefits her family has experienced being a part of Living Education Academy. www.livingbookpress.com Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order Living Education Academy ADE's Teacher Helps ADE's Patreon Community

We've received many questions about math tables and how to teach them with the Charlotte Mason Method. Richele Baburina joins Sonya to answer your questions. Learning Multiplication Tables the Charlotte Mason Way originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

We've received many questions about math tables and how to teach them with the Charlotte Mason Method. Richele Baburina joins Sonya to answer your questions. Learning Multiplication Tables the Charlotte Mason Way originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Does your home school have to look just like Charlotte Mason's schools? You have plenty of freedom in the principles of the Charlotte Mason Method to do what works for your family! You Don't Have to Be Charlotte Mason originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Does your home school have to look just like Charlotte Mason's schools? You have plenty of freedom in the principles of the Charlotte Mason Method to do what works for your family! You Don't Have to Be Charlotte Mason originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Angie Cole, a home-educating mom from Arizona, who has cultivated unique learning communities for herself and her four children. We understand the need for balance in determining how to incorporate social time and group learning while homeschooling and protecting morning lesson time. Angie has a lot of wisdom and experience to share with us!   Charlotte Mason Simple Languages Charlotte Mason in Community ADE's Teacher Training Videos www.livingbookpress.com Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order ADE's Patreon Community

Katie Thacker, Charlotte Mason parent of a child with ADHD, joins Sonya to discuss strategies for supporting ADHD students with the Charlotte Mason Method. How to Support ADHD Students in a Charlotte Mason Home School originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Katie Thacker, Charlotte Mason parent of a child with ADHD, joins Sonya to discuss strategies for supporting ADHD students with the Charlotte Mason Method. How to Support ADHD Students in a Charlotte Mason Home School originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Helen Swaveley, a seasoned home-educating parent, as she offers her perspective on how the Charlotte Mason's method gives balance to our students in high school and beyond. Waverley, Sir Walter Scott A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference 2025 www.livingbookpress.com Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order ADE's Teacher Training Videos ADE's Patreon Community

A perennial question those interested in the Charlotte Mason Method want to find out is how children raised in the method fare as they move on from homeschooling. At the 2024 ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference Jono Kiser talked with three former CM students about their adjustment and experience. We bring you the audio from this interview as part of our occasional Voices of the Conference series. Ender's Game, Card Ourselves, Charlotte Mason Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare The Hiding Place, ten Boom The Elements of Style, Strunk & White Beauty & Truth Math ADE at HOME 2025 {Virtual} Conference Living Book Press -- Our Season Sponsor ADE'S Teacher Helps ADE's Patreon Community

The Charlotte Mason Method is an all-encompassing method of education for all of life, and therefore, there are many ways we can fall out of balance as we apply it in our homes and schools. Today, we are discussing the pitfalls of imbalance we face as relates to our students doing the work of their education. We discuss finding the balance between challenging our students but not pushing them, how the wide curriculum meets them where they are at without pigeonholing them, and how we teachers must practice Masterly Inactivity to allow them to do the work of their own education. “A Code of Education in the Gospels, expressly laid down by Christ. It is summed up in three commandments … Take heed that ye OFFEND not––DESPISE not––HINDER not––one of these little ones.” (1/12) “Therefore we do not feel it is lawful in the early days of a child's life to select certain subjects for his education to the exclusion of others; … but we endeavour that he shall have relations of pleasure and intimacy established with as many as possible of the interests proper to him; not learning a slight or incomplete smattering about this or that subject, but plunging into vital knowledge, with a great field before him which in all his life he will not be able to explore.” (3/223) “Our deadly error is to suppose that we are his showman to the universe; and, not only so, but that there is no community at all between child and universe unless such as we choose to set up.” (3/188) Living Book Press -- Our Season Sponsor: Secrets of the Universe Awaken: A Living Books Conference -- April 4-5, 2025 Episode 204, which covers Points 9 & 10 of CM's Short Synopsis Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method: How a CM Curriculum is a cohesive whole Episode 286: Finding Balance in Our Teaching ADE at HOME 2025 {Virtual} Conference Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity ADE's Teacher Training Videos ADE's Patreon Community

We might have started homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method thinking about curriculum, but it quickly becomes a wonderful way of life! Why Charlotte Mason is a Lifestyle originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

We might have started homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method thinking about curriculum, but it quickly becomes a wonderful way of life! Why Charlotte Mason is a Lifestyle originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Michelle Riesgraf to learn how she balances her very full life as CM homeschooling mom and wife with all her other duties with her family serving inner-city kids on a working farm. While she shares specific challenges of her farming life, Michelle offers wisdom for us all in parenting, educating (and choosing co-ops), and living as the born persons we all are. For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay www.livingbookpress.com Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order Hope Farm School ADE's Consulting Services ADE's Teacher Helps ADE's Patreon Community

The Charlotte Mason Method is an all-encompassing method of education for all of life, and therefore, there are many ways we can fall out of balance as we apply it in our homes and schools. Today, we are discussing the pitfalls of imbalance we face as relates to our teaching. From how we ourselves learn about the method, to combining multiple students; helping our students become more independent or making modifications for individual students. Miss Mason has timeless wisdom to offer us, and she knows we are equipped as mothers to be the primary agent of education for our children. "The mother is qualified," says Pestalozzi, "and qualified by the Creator Himself, to become the principal agent in the development of her child..." (1/2) "N.B. 1. — In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able." (P.U.S. Programmes) "...so soon as the child can read at all, he should read for himself, and to himself..." (1/227) "You may bring your horse to the water, but you can't make him drink ; and you may present ideas of the fittest to the mind of the child ; but you do not know in the least which he will take, and which he will reject." (2/127) "The teacher's part is, in the first place, to see what is to be done, to look over the work of the day in advance and see what mental discipline, as well as what vital knowledge, this and that lesson afford; and then to set such questions and such tasks as shall give full scope to his pupils' mental activity." (3/180-181) "Meantime , we sometimes err, I think, in taking a part for the whole, and a part of a part for the whole of that part." (3/148-149) Living Book Press' Charlotte Mason Volumes ADE's Teacher Training Videos Living Book Press -- Our Season Sponsor Episode 82 -- CM's thought on Holidays Read-Aloud Revival Episode with Dr. Pakaluk Episode 4: -- Three Tools of Education ADE's Patreon Community

Here's an overview of the notebooks that students keep in a Charlotte Mason Method homeschool. Charlotte Mason Method Notebooking originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Here's an overview of the notebooks that students keep in a Charlotte Mason Method homeschool. Charlotte Mason Method Notebooking originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Susanne Norris, a full-time homeschool mom and missionary. She has wise words to share with all of us, even if we're not in full-time ministry! www.livingbookpress.com Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order ADE's Teacher Training Videos ADE's Patreon Community

One of the distinctives of the Charlotte Mason Method is that it is relational education. The Method also applies to all of life, and so we start with the foundational relationship in our students' lives: their relationship with their parents. In this episode of the podcast, we look at the two extremes, and learn from Charlotte Mason how to strike a balance that leads to life--for both parent and child. School Education, Volume 3 of the Home Education Series by Charlotte M. Mason, chapters 1-3 "...it is far easier to govern from a height, as it were, than from the intimacy of close personal contact. But you cannot be quite frank and easy with beings who are obviously of a higher and of another order than yourself." (3/4) "Parents and teachers, because their subjects are so docile and so feeble, are tempted more than others to the arbitrary temper..." (3/11) "Autocracy is defined as independent or self-derived power...Autocracy has ever a drastic penal code, whether in the kingdom, the school, or the family. It has, too, many commandments. 'Thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not' ... The tendency to assume self-derived power is common to us all, even the meekest of us, and calls for special watchfulness; the more so, because it shows itself fully as often in remitting duties and in granting indulgences as in inflicting punishments." (3/15-16) "Locke promulgated the doctrine of the infallible reason. That doctrine accepted, individual reason becomes the ultimate authority, and every man is free to do that which is right in his own eyes...the principle of the infallible reason is directly antagonistic to the idea of authority." (3/5-6) "[B]ut wise parents steer a middle course. They are careful to form habits upon which the routine of life runs easily, and, when the exceptional event requires a new regulation, they may make casual mention of their reasons for having so and so done ; or, if this is not convenient and the case is a trying one, they give the children the reason for all obedience-"for this is right." In a word, authority avoids, so far as may be, giving cause of offence." (3/22) "[A]uthority is vested in the office and not in the person; that the moment it is treated as a personal attribute it is forfeited. We know that a person in authority is a person authorised ; and that he who is authorised is under authority." (3/12) "Authority is neither harsh nor indulgent. She is gentle and easy to be entreated in all matters immaterial, just because she is immovable in matters of real importance; for these, there is always a fixed principle. It does not, for example, rest with parents and teachers to dally with questions affecting either the health or the duty of their children. They have no authority to allow children in indulgences... Authority is alert; she knows all that is going on and is aware of tendencies...It sometimes happens that children, and not their parents, have right on their side: a claim may be made or an injunction resisted, and the children are in opposition to parent or teacher. It is well for the latter to get the habit of swiftly and imperceptibly reviewing the situation; possibly, the children may be in the right, and the parent may gather up his wits in time to yield the point graciously and send the little rebels away in a glow of love and loyalty." (3/17) "Authority is that aspect of love which parents present to their children; parents know it is love, because to them it means continual self-denial, self-repression, self-sacrifice: children recognise it as love, because to them it means quiet rest and gaiety of heart." (3/24) "The constraining power should be present, but passive, so that the child may not feel himself hemmed in without choice. That free-will of man, which has for ages exercised faithful souls who would prefer to be compelled into all righteousness and obedience, is after all a pattern for parents. The child who is good because he must be so, loses in power of initiative more than he gains in seemly behaviour. Every time a child feels that he chooses to obey of his own accord, his power of initiative is strengthened." (3/31) "We shall give children space to develop on the lines of their own characters in all right ways, and shall know how to intervene effectually to prevent those errors which, also, are proper to their individual characters." (3/35) "'Wise passiveness.' It indicates the power to act, the desire to act, and the insight and self-restraint which forbid action. But there is, from our point of view at any rate, a further idea conveyed in 'masterly inactivity.' The mastery is not over ourselves only; there is also a sense of authority, which our children should be as much aware of when it is inactive as when they are doing our bidding." (3/28) "Further, though the emancipation of the children is gradual, they acquiring day by day more of the art and science of self-government, yet there comes a day when the parents, right to rule is over; there is nothing left for them but to abdicate gracefully, and leave their grown-up sons and daughters free agents, even though these still live at home; and although, in the eyes of their parents, they are not fit to be trusted with the ordering of themselves: if they fail in such self-ordering, whether as regards time, occupations, money, friends, most likely their parents are to blame for not having introduced them by degrees to the full liberty which is their right as men and women. Anyway, it is too late now to keep them in training; fit or unfit, they must hold the rudder for themselves." (2/17) Living Book Press' Charlotte Mason Volumes Living Book Press -- Our Season Sponsor Episode 115: Authority and Docility, Part 1 Episode 116: Authority and Docility, Part 2 Episode 201: Short Synopsis Points 1-4 Episode 191: The Home Story ADE's Patreon Community

As we discuss ways to bring balance to our lives using the Charlotte Mason Method, our first focus is on our Priorities. We can fall off on either side of the horse: Making school all-important, or pushing it to the back burner. Miss Mason has excellent advice for how to avoid either extreme, and the ADE ladies share their own experiences with imbalance. "...this is a delightful thing to remember, every time we do a thing helps to form the habit of doing it; and to do a thing a hundred times without missing a chance, makes the rest easy." (4/I/209) "[H]e learns that one time is NOT 'as good as another;' that there is no right time left for what is not done in its own time..." (1/142) Living Book Press' Charlotte Mason Volumes CM Simple Languages Living Book Press -- Our Season Sponsor Episode 264: The Time-table ADE's Patreon Community

It seems everyone these days wants to know how to start homeschooling. With the homeschooling boom still going, it's more important than ever to make sure you get all your ducks in a row before you even start looking at a worksheet. Today, our hosts will take you step by step from what to do before you start, how to make sure you and your kids get the most out of your learning lifestyle, pitfalls to avoid, and more! SHOW NOTES: Visit our website at www.happyhomeschoolerpodcast.com If you have any questions or comments, please email us at happyhomeschoolpod@gmail.com Visit Transcript Maker and get your 14-day free trial! Like our page and join our group on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! All of our episodes would be good for new homeschoolers to listen to, and we encourage you to do just that, but here are ten episodes you'll definitely want to check out: 130: The Importance of Deschooling 123: Project-Based Homeschooling 117: Handling Intrusive Family Members 116: Mental Health for Homeschooling Parents 110: Meal Planning for Homeschoolers 109: All About the Waldorf Method 096: What To Do After Pulling Your Child Out of Public School 091: What Is the Charlotte Mason Method? 084: Homeschooling on a Budget 077: Alternative Homeschooling Styles The Happy Homeschooler Podcast is a Transcript Maker Production. It is hosted by Holly Williams Urbach, Melody Gillum, and Jennifer Jones, produced by Matthew Bass, and edited by Norah Williams. Our logo is by Norah Williams and our music is by The Great Pangolin.

Christy Hissong joins Sonya to talk about what adjustments you might need to make to homeschool with a single child. Homeschooling a Single Child with the Charlotte Mason Method originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Christy Hissong joins Sonya to talk about what adjustments you might need to make to homeschool with a single child. Homeschooling a Single Child with the Charlotte Mason Method originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Here's how you can organize your homeschool schedule so that lessons are done by lunchtime—it's all due to the Charlotte Mason Method! Homeschool Schedule — How You Can Finish Lessons by Lunch originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Here's how you can organize your homeschool schedule so that lessons are done by lunchtime—it's all due to the Charlotte Mason Method! Homeschool Schedule — How You Can Finish Lessons by Lunch originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education. "The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19) "With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278) "Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20) Beauty & Truth Math Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method? Episode 182: Visualization Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books ADE's Patreon Community

Is it possible to work full-time and homeschool? The answer is "yes"! Today, we talk with Angela Winterton, full-time working mother of four. Angela pulled her children from the public school system in 2020 to start the homeschooling journey, then became a working mom! She shares insights on how to balance all the things! Excited to interview this amazing woman and mother! Books Referenced in this episode: Modern Miss Mason Audiobook by Leah Boden The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart *Please note that some of the links included in this article are Amazon affiliate links. CONNECT with US Join the Private Facebook Group  Connect and follow along with Janae's Journey on Instagram @janae.daniels Learn more about School to Homeschool

It's not too late to start Charlotte Mason, but you may want to keep these five things in mind as you make the switch. Is It Too Late to Start Homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method? originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

It's not too late to start Charlotte Mason, but you may want to keep these five things in mind as you make the switch. Is It Too Late to Start Homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method? originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Charlotte Mason's Method can seem confusing and difficult to implement, especially if we view it as a list of do's and don'ts. But when we learn to see it as a unified whole, it is revealed as a truly simple and cohesive method of education. “Time is insufficient for teachers as well as for scholars. How then find room for a new subject ? Where place it ? What would give way for it ? The answer is easy. The art of reading can only benefit education where it adds nothing, eliminates nothing, supersedes nothing, but by assimilation is our aid to all things. It is not a tax but an aid to memory ; it does not fatigue, but relieves and supports the mind. It is to education what the gastric juice is to the nutritive process : it causes and facilitates digestion ; it is not in itself a new factor, but a component part of all the other factors.” (Short Treatise on Reading Aloud. PR 17, p 129) "The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles " ; and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated. I suppose the difficulties are of the sort that Lister had to contend with ; every surgeon knew that his instruments and appurtenances should be kept clean, but the saving of millions of lives has resulted from the adoption of the great surgeon's antiseptic treatment; that is from the substitution of exact principles scrupulously applied for the rather casual ' more or less ' methods of earlier days." (6/19) “Therefore we do not feel it is lawful in the early days of a child's life to select certain subjects for his education to the exclusion of others; … but we endeavour that he shall have relations of pleasure and intimacy established with as many as possible of the interests proper to him; not learning a slight or incomplete smattering about this or that subject, but plunging into vital knowledge, with a great field before him which in all his life he will not be able to explore.” (3/223) "As we have already urged, there is but one right way, that is, children must do the work for themselves." (6/99) "The children, not the teachers, are the responsible persons ; they do the work by self-effort." (6/241) "'The mother is qualified,' says Pestalozzi, 'and qualified by the Creator Himself, to become the principal agent in the development of her child ; . . . and what is demanded of her is a thinking love. • • • God has given to thy child all the faculties of our nature, but the grand point remains undecided-how shall this heart, this head, these hands, be employed? to whose service shall they be dedicated? A question the answer to which involves a futurity of happiness or misery to a life so dear to thee. Maternal love is the first agent in education.'" (1/2) "What we cannot do with Miss Mason's Ideal is to reduce it to lowest terms, and just in so far as we try to, so far we misrepresent it, and misunderstand it. But some of the secret undoubtedly lies in the Programmes of Work; the longer we work from those wonderful programmes the more we realise how well balanced they are; how satisfying to the hungry mind; how the subjects dovetail; how difficult it is to teach history only in history time, how it will 'flow over' into geography, literature, or even into such unexpected channels as arithmetic or botany." (In Memoriam, p. 151) "Method implies two things -- a way to an end, and step-by-step progress in that way. Further, the following of a method implies an idea, a mental image, of the end or object to be arrived at." (1/8) "It would seem a far cry from Undine to a' liberal education ' but there is a point of contact between the two ; a soul awoke within a water-sprite at the touch of love; so, I have to tell of the awakening of a ' general soul ' at the touch of knowledge. Eight years ago the ' soul ' of a class of children in a mining village school awoke simultaneously at this magic touch and has remained awake. We know that religion can awaken souls, that love makes a new man, that the call of a vocation may do it, and in the age of the Renaissance , men's souls, the general soul, awoke to knowledge : but this appeal rarely reaches the modern soul ; and, notwithstanding the pleasantness attending lessons and marks in all our schools, I believe the ardour for knowledge in the children of this mining village is a phenomenon that indicates new possibilities. Already many thousands of the children of the Empire had experienced this intellectual conversion, but they were the children of educated persons. To find that the children of a mining population were equally responsive seemed to open a new hope for the world. It may be that the souls of all children are waiting for the call of knowledge to awaken them to delightful living." (6/Preface) "It is such a temptation to us ordinary folks to emphasize some part at the expense of the rest and so turn a. strength into a weakness. There is only one way to avoid this danger. That is constantly to read and re-read Miss Mason's books, constantly to remind ourselves of her first principles -- for from now onwards Miss Mason's work is in our hands; we dare not leave un-made and effort to keep the truth." (Wix, p. 153) “Questions there will always be, but if we continually keep in touch with Miss Mason's thought by constant reading of all her books, we shall have a sheaf of principles at command by which we can test the value of this or that criticism, this or that book.” (Franklin. PR 36 p. 419) Talkbox.mom Episode 182: Visualization Episode 235: When the Feast is Too Much Miss Wix's Article: Miss Mason's Ideal: Its Breadth and Balance Episode 167: Method vs. System ADE's Patreon Community

Chris and Christine discuss Charlotte Mason's method of education with Ambleside Schools International Founder Maryellen St. Cyr.In 1989, Maryellen began to search for a philosophically and pedagogically consistent method of Christian education. She found just such a method in the writings of British educator, Charlotte Mason. Maryellen has since become one of the country's leading experts on Charlotte Mason's pedagogy and was a primary author of the book, When Children Love to Learn.In 2000, Maryellen founded Ambleside School of Fredericksburg, Texas, providing children with a Charlotte Mason education and serving as a center for training interested educators from around the world. In response to growing requests for help in establishing Ambleside Schools, in 2005, Maryellen co-founded Ambleside Schools International.Follow Making the Leap on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.  You can also sign-up for our newsletter or send us an email hello@makingtheleappodcast.com.To learn more about the Herzog Foundation, visit HerzogFoundation.com. Like and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or sign up to receive monthly email updates. 

Join Leslie Nunnery and Sonya Shafer in this episode of the Homeschooling Families podcast as they discuss a powerful system for family Bible memory that takes only five minutes a day. Learn how this simple yet effective method can strengthen your family's faith and provide a lifelong foundation in God's Word.  Topics Covered In This Episode: The Importance of Bible Memory Teaching Biblical Values A Lifelong Discipline Making Scripture Memory a Priority Introduction to the Memory System Involving Children of All Ages Meet The Guest: Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte's gentle and effective methods of education. Her passion for homeschooling her own four daughters grew into helping others and then into Simply Charlotte Mason, which publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at simplycharlottemason.com.  Additional Resources: Learn more about Simply Charlotte Mason Scripture Memory Cards Setting Up the Scripture Memory System YouTube Scripture Memory Songs Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Join Leslie Nunnery and Sonya Shafer in this episode of the Homeschooling Families podcast as they discuss a powerful system for family Bible memory that takes only five minutes a day. Learn how this simple yet effective method can strengthen your family's faith and provide a lifelong foundation in God's Word. Meet The Guest:Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte's gentle and effective methods of education. Her passion for homeschooling her own four daughters grew into helping others and then into Simply Charlotte Mason, which publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at simplycharlottemason.com. Topics Covered In This Episode:The Importance of Bible MemoryTeaching Biblical ValuesA Lifelong DisciplineMaking Scripture Memory a PriorityIntroduction to the Memory SystemInvolving Children of All AgesAdditional Resources:Learn more about Simply Charlotte MasonScripture Memory CardsSetting Up the Scripture Memory SystemYouTube Scripture Memory Songs

Wrestling with concerns about homeschooling and your child's writing skills? Believe me, you're not alone. Join me as we venture into this intimidating arena, armed with my personal homeschooling stories and powerful tools designed to nurture your young writer's talent. Discover the inner peace that comes from knowing it's okay to take a breather and de-school, and that, despite your doubts, you're doing a phenomenal job.  Together, we'll unravel the Charlotte Mason method of teaching writing, a tried-and-true approach that harnesses the power of copywork, narration, and dictation. We will focus on the art of inspiring a love for writing and grammar in children. Hear heartwarming anecdotes from my personal journey with my own children and learn the benefits of offering them the gift of freedom and flexibility in learning. We'll also discuss the utility of grammar books and the need to revisit writing basics periodically. Finally, I'll introduce you to the enchanting world of poetry tea time, a practice that has brought joy and creativity into my family's homeschooling routine. So, tune in and get equipped to transform your child's writing journey into an adventure they'll cherish! Grammar Resources: The Dragon Grammar Book by Diane Mae Robinson Usborne Junior Illustrated Grammar and Punctuation School House Rock 30th Anniversary Edition DVD-ROM Writing Prompt Books for Journaling: 50 Writing Prompts for Kids: Grades 3-5 Writing Prompts for Kids on Quotations: Grades 4-12 Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing One Question a Day Journal for Kids: 365 Days All about Me Ages 6-9 99 Non-Lame Journal Prompts for Teens Poetry Books for Kids and Teens: Read-Aloud Poems for Young People A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy Poetry for Kids by Robert Frost The Random House Book of Poetry for Children Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls Poetry Teatime Companion: A Brave Writer Sampler of British and American Poems Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year The Random House Children's Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nonsense Verse Where the Sidewalk Ends Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein A Light in the Attic Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems by Shel Silverstein * Please note that some of the links included in this article are Amazon affiliate links. CONNECT with US Join the Private Facebook Group  Connect and follow along with Janae's Journey on Instagram @janae.daniels Learn more about School to Homeschool  

Our special guest this week on Empowering Homeschool Conversations was Sonya Shafer. Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for over 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte's gentle and effective methods of education. Sonya has a special place in her heart for homeschooling parents with special needs children. Her youngest daughter has autism and pervasive developmental delays. Now an adult, her daughter still enjoys their daily homeschool sessions. Sonya shared on how to "Celebrate Growth in Your Homeschool, not Perfection" Viewers like you funded similar episodes, and other free resources from SPED Homeschool. To learn how you can support the nonprofit work of SPED Homeschool and this broadcast, visit https://spedhomeschool.com/donate/ To watch this interview on YouTube, visit: https://youtube.com/live/LmJTdMU7w_U Here are links to Sonya's resources: Website: https://simplycharlottemason.com/ Book, This Anguishing Blessed Journey https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/this-anguishing-blessed-journey/ Free audio download, Lessons from the Valley https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/lessons-from-the-valley/ To find out more about SPED Homeschool, visit our website at https://spedhomeschool.com/ Check out our most recent articles on SPED Homeschool at https://spedhomeschool.com/articles/ Click here to power up your at home teaching with courses and downloadable hand-selected for you! https://empoweredhomeschool.com/Join our mission to empower homeschool families!: https://spedhomeschool.com/donate/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The Charlotte Mason Method of homeschooling gives elementary children plenty of opportunities to grow and explore as they learn about a wide variety of subjects. What Charlotte Mason Elementary School Looks Like originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

The Charlotte Mason Method of homeschooling gives elementary children plenty of opportunities to grow and explore as they learn about a wide variety of subjects. What Charlotte Mason Elementary School Looks Like originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.

Homeschool News: We tell you how to get audio recordings from the Thrive! Conference, talk about the NCHE dad's retreat this fall, and give a legislative update.  Homeschool Conversations: We have Zan Tyler on a zoom call. Zan is a homeschool speaker, author, and podcaster. Zan was a pioneer of home education in SC, working to make homeschooling legal in her state.    Homeschool Helps with Amanda: Amanda continues her discussion of various homeschool approaches by taking a closer look at the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling.  

Are you struggling to find a homeschooling method that puts the focus on your child as a person, rather than a to-do list?Have you wondered how to homeschool if the kids have a wide age-range, or have special needs and learning challenges? How do you teach them all at THE SAME time?You will LOVE this episode!Today we talk to Tatiana Rivera, an experienced Charlotte Mason method homeschooler and entrepreneur who has successfully graduated four of her six children using this approach.Tatiana shares her exciting story of how she was introduced to the Charlotte Mason method at a conference. Then she gives us the key components for using this method successfully: 1) a Charlotte Mason style of teaching, 2) a homeschooling community, and 3) the understanding that homeschooling allows for beautiful custom support of our children.BONUS! BIG NEWS!!!!She also discusses the upcoming Charlotte Mason Conference in May! Then conference offers the chance to join a supportive community of like-minded mothers and learn about topics such as diversifying the feast, finding beauty through culturally rich learning, and using music to grow in faith.Click the link for the deets! =)https://charlottemasoninspired.com?aff=25If you're looking for a homeschooling method that values your child as a whole person, and want to learn more about the Charlotte Mason approach, then this episode is for you.XOXO,KatiePS. More AWE-SOME info curated for YOU below!FEEL GOOD!familysuccess.lifevantage.comCommunity!https://urlgeni.us/facebook/HHAHGroupMeet Katie:https://herhomeandheart.net/coachingMentorship:https://bit.ly/3Flo7oaMore Info:https://bit.ly/m/HerHomeandHeartCOUPONS, HACKS, and TREATS:https://linktr.ee/FamilySuccessWant Your Question Considered For The Podcast? Leave me a message!https://www.speakpipe.com/KatieK

What do it look like do use the Charlotte Mason Method with a group of students? Kelsi Rea joins the ADE ladies today to explain how she went about developing her Charlotte Mason school. Her enthusiasm is contagious and has led to her consulting with dozens of others with the desire to open schools, as well as co-ops. Charlotte Mason In Community Kelsi Rea's Website Emily's succinct description of Charlotte Mason's Method (to get you started coming up with yours) Heritage Christian Academy

Leah Boden is wife to Dave, mother to four children, and a longtime home educator. With over two decades of experience in church leadership, Leah's background also features many years in youth, children's, and family work within the church and for the local education authority. Leah speaks, hosts podcasts and coaching sessions, and runs workshops sharing the beauty of a Charlotte Mason approach to childhood, motherhood, and education. She and her family live in the West Midlands, England. In this episode, you'll learn about: What the Charlotte Mason Method is The rise of home education (home schooling) Book: For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School Myths about the Charlotte Mason Method to home schooling Explore Toups & Co. organic skincare and makeup - save 10% using code: PURE10 Frankincense Face Balm Mineral Makeup Foundation Mineral Makeup Sample Kit How to avoid burnout and weeks of exhaustion Protecting your "me time" and setting boundaries with your family Books: The Original Home Schooling Series Book: The Call of the Wild + Free Read-Aloud Revival Stories of Color Connect with Leah Boden: Website: leahboden.com Instagram: @modernmissmason

What is the Charlotte Mason Method? The Charlotte Mason method is a time-honored teaching method incorporating a rich variety of books, music, art, history, and just about anything you can think of. But the Charlotte Mason method is also a philosophy of teaching, stressing the importance of being outside, physical movement, and treating children as full people in their own right. Today, Jennifer and melody interview Holly all about what Charlotte Mason is, how it works, and more! And be sure to stay to the end, when our hosts answer a very lovely question. // SHOW NOTES: - If you have any questions or comments, please email us at happyhomeschoolpod@gmail.com. - Visit Transcript Maker and get your 14-day free trial! http://www.transcriptmaker.com/ - Like our page and join our group on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/happyhomeschoolpod/ - Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/happyhomeschoolpod/ - Ambleside Online - Charlotte Mason Curriculum https://www.amblesideonline.org/ - Simply Charlotte Mason https://simplycharlottemason.com/ - Heritage Mom - Amber O'Neal Johnson's Blog heritagemom.com - Charlotte Mason Study Guide | Charlotte Mason Approach (pennygardner.com) - A Charlotte Mason Education: Catherine Levison https://www.catherinelevison.com/ - Charlotte Mason Homeschool Curriculum - My Father's World https://www.mfwbooks.com/charlotte-mason - A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola - For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay - The Happy Homeschooler Podcast is a Transcript Maker Production. It is hosted by Holly Williams Urbach, Melody Gillum, and Jennifer Jones, produced by Matthew Bass, and edited by Norah Williams. Our graphic design is by Pete Soloway and our music is by The Great Pangolin. - If you liked this episode, and you'd like to help us grow, leave us a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! //

On today's podcast we are joined by Sonya Shafer of Simply Charlotte Mason. So many Teach Them Diligently families are interested in the Charlotte Mason method, that we wanted to bring in an expert to talk to us all about it, and we cannot wait for you to dive in with us as Sonya shares some of the philosophy, habits, and action points that make a Charlotte Mason education so unique and so natural. Meet the Guest: Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte's gentle and effective methods of education. Simply Charlotte Mason publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at simplycharlottemason.com. Today's podcast is sponsored by Leslie Nunnery's new book, Homeschooling for the Heart, How Amazing Parents Become Excellent Home Educators. It's available now in digital form for only $5, and I sincerely believe it will be a great help and encouragement to you as you homeschool and parent your precious children. Click HERE to learn more and download your copy today.   Additional Resources: Find out more about Simply Charlotte Mason HERE Hear Sonya Shafer at our conventions in Round Rock, TX and Pigeon Forge, TN. Secure your ticket HERE

In today's episode we discuss why so many families are using the Charlotte Mason philosophy to educate their children.See the Show Notes for This Episode--------Commonplace Quotes:Philippians 4:8 - "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things." (NKJV)“There are four means of destroying the desire for knowledge:––(a) Too many oral lessons, which offer knowledge in a diluted form, and do not leave the child free to deal with it.(b) Lectures, for which the teacher collects, arranges, and illustrates matter from various sources; these often offer knowledge in too condensed and ready prepared a form.(c) Text-books compressed and recompressed from the big book of the big man.(d) The use of emulation and ambition as incentives to learning in place of the adequate desire for, and delight in, knowledge.” (School Education, pg. 214)."Lessons must furnish ideas “In this way: give your child a single valuable idea and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information; for the child who grows up with a few dominant ideas has his self-education provided for, his career marked out”. (Home Education, pg. 174).“The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care?” (School Education).--------Further Education:Home Education by Charlotte Mason (*affiliate link)--------Learn with over 100 fellow mothers in the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Community.https://www.patreon.com/charlottemasonmotherhood(See exclusive Day in the Life videos, Lesson Plan With Me, Get free downloads and resources for meal planning, homeschool, and more!)--------Find me on:YouTube | Instagram

What changes do you need to make as your child reaches the high school years? High School Transitions and the Charlotte Mason Method originally appeared on Simply Charlotte Mason.