For who has despised the day of small things? – Zechariah 4:10 So, this day started out like so many…
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Imagination – Cultivate Your Capacities for Amazement
Cultivate your capacities for amazement – you won’t worship without it. There are a lot of boring worship services in…
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The Hive
Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships––in other words, try in one subject or another…
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Sweet the Mother-Walk, But Perilous!
If there is anyone in the world whom we should not have to deceive, who is most likely to know us for…
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This Fetish of Progress
sweet find from local antique store We had our final PMEU meeting of the school year, despite severe thunderstorms. I…
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Picture Study at Church
detail on Cheney’s dress for Sunday Recently, it was our family’s turn to teach Family Sunday School. We were to…
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Guests and Living
I was reminded of another difference between Charlotte Mason and another popular teaching method. I was chatting with a group…
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Silent Narration??
In our yard this a.m. “The mind can know nothing save what it can produce in the form of an…
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Immersion Groups
Teacher Tip “Let the lessons be short and brisk and bright. Let the teacher be fired with enthusiasm and be…
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Welcome Spring! (And the winner is…)
apple blossom welcome wreath Have you ever been in the fields on a spring day, and heard nothing at all…
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Parents as Rulers, Inspirers, and Revealers – Charlotte Mason on Thoughtful Parenting
When my adult children were young, my husband and I were involved with a group of committed parents who met…
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Fertile Observations and Family Diaries
It is possible to see the more in winter, because the things to be seen do not crowd each other…
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