There is no separation between the ‘practical’, ‘intellectual’, and the ‘spiritual’.
Charlotte Mason advocated for children to receive a broad and generous education. While we, as educators, see the importance of setting aside planned ...
The Chief Duty of Mothers
From the last two principles, we see that we have a will, a capacity to make choices about the ideas we accept or reject, and that we also have reaso ...
The Way of the Reason (for Moms)
From the last post in the Mother Culture Roadmap, we learned that the will is our means of choosing to do what is right, and that it is easily fatigu ...
The Way of the Will for Moms
In Charlotte Mason’s fourth volume, Ourselves, she describes a country called Mansoul. This country is full of potential - there are fields, natural ...
A mother’s education is more than reading books.
Mother culture is about the pursuit of education for ourselves. We recognize that ‘education’ is not something we finished years ago. It’s not someth ...
In a mother’s education, less is more.
Does reading broadly, from several living books, on a frequent basis, sound overwhelming? Or to put in another way, does the goal of educating yourse ...
To self-educate, mothers should narrate.
Once we have brought together a collection of living books that widen our interests, and have carved out a bit of time to read them, what do we do ne ...
How to Plan your Mother Culture Time
In the last post in this series, I discussed education as the science of relations. It is right to develop an interest in a wide variety of knowledge ...
A mother’s education is the science of relations.
I have been away from this series for a long time, so let’s review how we can apply Charlotte Mason’s principles of education to ourselves as mothers ...
How to Start Habit Training in Moral Habits
When it comes to habit training, I’m a big fan of starting with what I consider ‘concrete habits’. These are habits that require visible action. Maki ...
