How would you like to be able to “go places” even while you’re stuck at your desk or inside the four walls of a room? Charlotte Mason describes the power of having a “picture gallery” in our minds of the sceneries we’ve seen: Though she does not paint her pictures Read more
Charlotte Mason believes that, no matter what social class a child is, the curriculum we offer him needs to meet three requirements: He requires much knowledge, for the mind needs sufficient food as much as does the body. The knowledge should be various, for sameness in mental diet does not Read more
Do you know that the Charlotte Mason method is not really a how-to-do-this or you-must-do-this-and-this kind of thing? Instead, Miss Mason herself invites us to “consider this,” and then she lays out her findings about children and learning. So over the next few weeks, we hope to share posts that Read more
In this series of blog posts, we want to tackle some of the most common issues that parents face in a Charlotte Mason Homeschool. We hope that the questions we recommend can help you find solutions, and we refer back to Miss Mason’s principles to help you apply them practically Read more
“Help! My child narrates only the last part of what was read!” This is one of the top frustrations that parents come to me about when they are just starting off in the Charlotte Mason method. The good news is that it’s more common than you think, and it’s not Read more