We have had the BEST panels at the Living Education Retreat! This year was no exception. Eight young adults who were educated with the Charlotte Mason method (most of them all 12 years) shared with everyone on Friday of the LER. It was rather fascinating to hear them talk about their school education, mostly with great fondness, and to answer…
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Meditation: Narration of the Heart
At the 2021 Living Education Retreat, I delivered the opening conversazione on the theme “Meditation” which set the tone for the retreat. Today, I would like to share the audio of that presentation. Charlotte Mason put a heavy emphasis on meditation for the parent and the child. This talk explores what she meant by meditation and looks deeply at this…
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Setting Their Feet
As you guide your children through their school days implementing the Charlotte Mason method, you will notice how wide and generous the curriculum is! Her program is not just the three Rs, not only vocational work, not the latest trend in education, and certainly not test preparation. No, her philosophy of education encourages us to establish the vast science of…
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High School Chemistry Using Living Books
Books dealing with science as with history, say, should be of a literary character, and we should probably be more scientific as a people if we scrapped all the text-books which swell publishers’ lists and nearly all the chalk expended so freely on our blackboards. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Eduction (Vol. 6) p. 218 In our Charlotte Mason…
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GRACE FOR GRACE – NEW LEL CLASS!
“It’s like a sermon, counseling, and teaching all in one…so great!!”-Rachelle D. Are you a leader of any sort in the Charlotte Mason world of education? If so, you might be interested in my upcoming class, Grace for Grace, Season 6, Living Education Lessons. We will take a deep dive into the book of John (chapters 1-7) and CM’s Scale…
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THOUGHTS ON COURAGE
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Do you consider yourself courageous? As homeschool moms, we certainly need to be. Without courage, how can we face each new day with its myriad of demands on us? How can we handle the illnesses or inconvenient…
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THIS SACRED LIFE
As this strange year of 2020 draws to a close and we look forward into 2021 with hope, living in peace is more important than ever. Beginning on January 11th, 2021, I will be leading a Living Education Lessons, Season 5 – This Sacred Life. Here is what it will be about: THIS SACRED LIFE – SEASON 5 – LIVING…
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Reader’s Journal 2020
Welcome to my annual Reader’s Journal post! Here you will find a list of the books that I read this year with my top 5 highlighted. I think I am surprised that I didn’t read more books, what with the pandemic and all. My list does not include my Bible reading, The Cloud of Witness, Charlotte Mason’s 6 Volumes, or…
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