Do you remember how you behaved in school when you were young? <\/p>

In my case, I was an achiever from a very young age. But I do remember that I tended to perform well in school subjects where I liked the teacher, and also slack off when I didn\u2019t like the teacher.<\/p>

Because of the high value she places on children as persons, Charlotte Mason discourages the use of any outside force in encouraging children to learn. This includes the use of rewards and punishment, which are very common tactics for traditional school. For example, who among you here either had experience yourself or your children running for the honor roll or being preoccupied with getting good grades? While there\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with being driven by competition and a desire to do good, when our main focus is on external factors like those, we may miss out on the joy of learning. <\/p>

Instead, the Charlotte Mason philosophy emphasizes the child\u2019s natural love for learning and works on cultivating, supporting, and encouraging more and more learning, simply for the joy and reward of knowing something. We believe this is a more powerful and sustainable model for encouraging children to learn.\u00a0<\/p>

Teaching the Child as a Person<\/strong><\/h2>

With this, we have the responsibility and privilege to teach our child as an individual and as a fully-formed person even at a young age. Isn’t that more rewarding than simply filling an empty bucket? \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[20,19,26],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charlotte-mason-philosophy","tag-charlotte-mason-homeschool","tag-charlotte-mason-philosophy","tag-charlotte-mason-preschool"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pexels-photo-1104014.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottemasoninternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}