Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
I am so pleased to share with you today this guest post by Cheri Struble! Recently Cheri told me about this new-to-me author and I asked her to try and put her enthusiasm down on paper. Enjoy this post and leave Cheri a comment at the end. -Nancy Iris Noble (1922-1986) I first met Iris Noble quite by accident….
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“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.” – Prospero Prospero with his daughter Miranda I had hopes of a stage production, but circumstances in my life necessitated some changes in plans. It wasn’t going to be a big deal, but we would at least have had a stage, an audience, and a few sound effects. Instead, we had…
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I met Edith Schaeffer in Rochester at a L’Abri conference over 15 years ago. She was tiny and intense, with dark eyes that looked right into you. It was the sort of look that makes you feel like, even though there were hundreds of people in the room, she was here to talk to just you. She was sitting down,…
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Here is a fun find that’s full of mommy connections of the CM kind. This book is just strange, charming, and full of whimsy.The Adventures of Madalene and Louisa is a delightful collection of quirky drawings by two Victorian girls, Madalene and Louisa Pasley while they were between the ages of 12 and 16 (during the 1850s). It begins with this – “When…
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Red-bellied woodpecker sighted on the first day of spring The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, And that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded…
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Girl Reading – etching by William Roffe To brighten your March, here is a superb, 10-page reading list for children by Jerram Barrs, Professor of Christian Studies and Contemporary Culture and Resident Scholar of Francis A. Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis (used with permission). He’s also one of my favorite speakers at the Rochester L’abri conferences,…
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The Young Cicero Reading by Foppa, c. 1464 It’s Italian for “The Joyful House”. Now wouldn’t that be…
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It indicates the power to act, the desire to act, and the insight and self-restraint which forbid action. – Charlotte Mason on masterly inactivity, Vol. 3 p. 28 Masterly inactivity is so important in your child’s education. I sometimes think that more learning goes on during those times where they are going off and seeking out all those things that…
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Frederick Warren Freer Mother and Child Reading A wonderful quote came up in our book discussion on Mason’s Volume 3, p. 38 about children “feeling their feet”. I love the picture that it paints in my mind. I had an example of one of my children “feeling her feet” just this past week. While we were learning about Wordsworth,…
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