Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Cheney having a summer read. She still fits on the sill. Looking for a short, interesting and inspiring summer read? Here is a favorite of mine. It is a collection of letters that C.S. Lewis wrote to his younger fans. You’ll feel like he’s writing to you. He even explains how to pronounce Aslan’s name and in what order he…
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So I asked the group of adults sitting around the table, “What odors or sensations evoke strong, positive memories from years ago?” Silence. On my part, too. I’ve been thinking for some time now about a tremendous gap in my education. It’s a gap that many adults I know have, too. I hope to avoid having my children experience this…
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Please indulge me this one last post about the LER, or rather, about after the LER. Enjoy the slide show.
MINDFULNESS, n. Attention; regard; heedfulness. -Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary We began the LER talking about how mindful Miss Mason was- how her attention to children and what is true about education has continued to benefit the children in our care, over 100 years after she penned her tomes. Fittingly, we ended with this verse: “Not unto us, O LORD,…
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A period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study, or instruction under a director. But Wisdom’s triumph is a well-tim’d Retreat, As hard a science to the Fair as Great! -Alexander Pope Living Education Retreat July 15-16, 2011
Not this kind of flip-flop! I’m talking about a reversal of a stand or position. I know I’ve read these quotes many times before. You probably have, too. But after listening to yet another discussion on the difference between Mason’s philosophy and other popular education models at the CLUSA (ChildLight USA, the former name of the Charlotte Mason Institute) conference,…
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No, this post has nothing to do with Jane Austen. It’s about a complicated and inspiring woman who wrote one of America’s most famous poems. She never went to school; her father’s library was her classroom. At 16, her doting father had a book of her poems published which was over 200 pages long. She died of cancer in 1887…
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Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, Mount of Thy redeeming love. This hymn, which just might be my favorite, turned out to be “the hymn” of…
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Flowers blooming this week – finally! All our teaching of children should be given reverently, with the humble sense that we are invited in the matter to co-operate with the Holy Spirit. -Mason, Vol. 2 p. 48 I love this reminder from Mason. In all of my busyness this week, in all of the joy and sorrow around me, God’s…
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