In this post, I hope to give you some quick practical “how-to” steps in terms of implementing different aspects of a Charlotte Mason method. For more information on each aspect, I encourage you to check back regularly, where I will continue to flesh them out in more detail, including real-life Read more…
“Help, my child abhors narration! What do I do?” Some parents I’ve coached have expressed the struggle of getting their child to narrate. Now, usually, when a child starts off school using the CM method from a young age, narration becomes almost second nature to them. (Correction: narration is actually Read more…
One common question I get from Charlotte Mason homeschooling families is: Why does my child narrate only the last part of what was read? In this series of blog posts, we want to help you troubleshoot some of the most common issues relating to the different components of a CM Read more…
When someone new to Charlotte Mason takes a look at any CM booklist for one school year, the almost guaranteed response is an eyebrow raise or a scrunched up nose, and the question, “Can they read all that in one year?” In fact, that’s exactly what a casual acquaintance said Read more…
Narration. Every student in the Charlotte Mason philosophy possesses this skill and continues to grow in it. It may sound simple. After all, the student merely reads the lesson, and then he’s asked to tell about all he remembers from the reading. For those of us who were not educated Read more…