There is nothing quite like having kids to make you realize that you have a ton to learn about having kids. Below are the links to all of my posts about parenting, from respectful and authoritative parenting, dealing with sibling conflict, and growing as a person as well as a parent. I especially love to explore Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy apply to parenting.
The Way of Love: Loving your Children
If I wake early to read my Bible and pray, and have not love when my children interrupt me, I am only a donkey in a lion’s skin. I may hide under a m ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A mother’s habits shape her character.
If there is one false impression I took from the enormous stack of Christian marriage books that I read during my engagement, it’s that getting m ...
A mother’s life is naturally educational.
I am approaching my sixth year of motherhood, and if there is one thing that I’ve learned, it’s to recognize the rub of sanctification in my heart. I ...
Atmosphere, discipline, and life are the means of a mother’s growth.
What do we do with the ideas we have been given through Charlotte Mason’s principles 1-4? We can accept that we were born - and still are - persons, ...
Mother culture is an act of self-respect.
Most of us are familiar with the idea of self-care. "Mom, you need to take care of yourself. Set apart some me-time. Go out for coffee. Get a manicur ...
Mothers are called to both authority and obedience.
Throughout high school and university, I acquired more than enough 'leadership experience’ to fill a resume. After all, teachers, professors, and co ...
A mother’s character is not fixed. It is a work in progress.
I concluded in the last post that as moms, we need to rise to the challenge of continuing our own education. Mother culture, loosely defined, is tim ...
