Customizing a Curriculum for my Charlotte Mason Homeschool
Do we sometimes expect too much from our homeschooling curriculum? Obviously it's important. A crucial part of the Charlotte Mason philosophy is to g ...
How I Teach Hymns and Folk Songs in my Charlotte Mason Homeschool
One part of Charlotte Mason homeschooling that I love is the inclusion of many riches. Artist study, composer study, and especially learning hymns an ...
Finding, Buying, and Organizing Homeschool Books
I think my oldest son was around two years old when I bought our first 'school book'. I needed to top up an Amazon order so that I could get free shi ...
How to Help a Homeschool Day Run Smoothly
I've been doing a morning time routine with my kids for a few years now. After breakfast, we gather and enjoy music, poetry, and books together. Over ...
Charlotte Mason Homeschool Scheduling
After a long time enjoying gentle and quiet early years, my six year old son has started more formal lessons. In a Charlotte Mason homeschool, provid ...
Mothers are fit for living knowledge.
Charlotte Mason’s first ten principles cover a lot of ground. In a few sentences, she covers the nature of a person, the role and limitations of auth ...
To find more success with habit training, look at where you have been successful.
Do you find that when you think about habit training, you usually think of all the habits that aren’t going well? That’s my own typical reaction. I r ...
A mother’s education is her own responsibility.
In the previous post in this series, I addressed a lie prevalent in our culture: that knowledge is only valuable to us as far as we are able to make ...
Mothers need more than tips, tricks, and facts.
‘Mom, where are my socks?’‘I can’t find my t-shirt.’‘Where did my screwdriver go?’‘Mommy, drink?’I always thought my mom’s ability to know the locati ...
Mothers need to feed their minds.
Sometimes, I find motherhood is a bit mind-numbing. Maybe it’s particularly related to having young children: there is a lot of repetition. Repeating ...
