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…
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…