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charlotte mason no separation

There is no separation between the ‘practical’, ‘intellectual’, and the ‘spiritual’.

October 11, 2020
by Amy with 2 Comments Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

Charlotte Mason advocated for children to receive a broad and generous education. While we, as educators, see the importance of setting aside planned, structured time to give our children a ‘feast’ of ideas, it can be more challenging to partake as a mot ...

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The Chief Duty of Mothers

October 4, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

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 reason, which justifies the ideas we accept. This brings us to Charlotte Mason’s nineteenth principle: The mai ...

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The Way of the Reason (for Moms)

September 27, 2020
by Amy with One Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

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 fatigued. We often try to reason with ourselves in order to work up our will to do the right thing, but this pr ...

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The Way of the Will for Moms

September 20, 2020
by Amy with 2 Comments Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

In Charlotte Mason’s fourth volume, Ourselves, she describes a country called Mansoul. This country is full of potential - there are fields, natural resources, cities with libraries and art museums. But bounty is not guaranteed. The success of the countr ...

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A mother’s education is more than reading books.

September 13, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

Mother culture is about the pursuit of education for ourselves. We recognize that ‘education’ is not something we finished years ago. It’s not something our kids need to go through before they hit adulthood. If education is about the formation of our cha ...

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In a mother’s education, less is more.

September 6, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

Does reading broadly, from several living books, on a frequent basis, sound overwhelming? Or to put in another way, does the goal of educating yourself seem so distant that you are reluctant to begin? If we still think of learning as cramming for an e ...

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To self-educate, mothers should narrate.

August 30, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

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 next? How can we engage with our reading in such a way that we are changed people when we put the book down ...

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How to Plan Mother Culture Time

How to Plan your Mother Culture Time

August 23, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

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 and hence to have many ways of knowing and loving God and His creation. But how are we to obtain that kn ...

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A mother’s education is the science of relations.

August 16, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for Moms

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 - or to any adult for that matter! In the first few principles, we establish that we are born persons ...

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Mothers are fit for living knowledge.

February 26, 2020
by Amy with No Comment Charlotte Mason for MomsMom's Learning

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 authority in education, and the tools of education that respect personhood. She asserts that children are not ...

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