When I was first starting out in the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling, I was a bit skeptical about getting my son to sing hymns. I mean, I didn’t come from a family that sang hymns, so even to me, the words were foreign and the melody lines were not Read more…
Narration is one of the foundational elements of a Charlotte Mason education. Look at what Miss Mason herself says about narration: Let him read to a child of any age from six to ten an account of an incident, graphically and tersely told, and the child will relate what he Read more…
In the Charlotte Mason method, when our children are not yet strong readers, we as parents read aloud to them. This is because we use excellent living books from a young age. Sometimes it may be because the child isn’t reading yet, or if he already is reading, because his Read more…
One of our most common desires for our children is that they would love reading. Don’t we all wish they were able to learn from whatever they read, and that they would have the attention span to get through a whole book? The problem is, how can they learn to Read more…
Masterly inactivity is having the wisdom not to do anything even when you’re perfectly capable of getting involved, and doing it for the greater good. But how do you not get involved when you know perfectly well that you have the power to do something?