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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Emma
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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Safely to Arrive at Home
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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Cooperating and Conferences
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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Basket Weaving Mouse
A Nest for Celeste – A Story about Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home by Henry Cole I just finished reading this charming book to Cheney (dd 7) and wanted to recommend it to you. It has a lot going for it. To begin with, it’s about a mouse. ( I love children’s books about mice – more to…
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Clutch of Postcards
I have been quite busy lately preparing for the ChildLight USA conference at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC and haven’t had much time to write posts. Today, however, I have a new post up over at Educating Mother titled “Clutch of Postcards“. Enjoy! To view that post, click here. Sursum Corda, Nancy Wolf Lake – beaver dam right behind…
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A Dedication to Mother
When Kate Douglas Wiggen wrote the classic, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, she dedicated it in this beautiful manner: To My Mother Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. -from…
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Narrating Our Way Through Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Narration Ideas Document “Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!” Our Charlotte Mason co-op, Truth, Beauty, Goodness performed Julius Caesar for Family Night last week. In honor of the Bard’s 447th birthday, I wanted to share with you some pictures and explain how we went about the play. From the audience’s response as well as the children’s, I would say…
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I Have Found a Door
“There is a saying of King Alfred’s that I like to apply to our School,–“I have found a door,” he says. That is just what I hope your School is to you–a door opening into a great palace of art and knowledge in which there are many chambers all opening into gardens or field paths, forest or hills. One…
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