What if, after picking the best books to use in your homeschool, your child just whines and complains and insists that he or she just doesn’t like this one particular book? What do you do? Should you switch it out for another book, or should you grit your teeth through Read more…
The great thing about teaching geography the Charlotte Mason way is that we get to experience the different places through the excellently-written living books. It’s almost as if we are actually there! That makes for memorable learning, and one that our kids can engage with, versus all the memorization of 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…
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…
Miss Mason says this: “Education is the Science of Relations.” What does that mean? Studying her words, in another place, Miss Mason expounds on it as follows: “that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, natural lore, Read more…