Charlotte Mason’s well-rounded education included a study of the arts for children, beginning at around age 6 (she suggests little “planned” activity or academics before this age). But just like …

  “Every hour spent in the open is a clear gain, tending to the increase of brain power and bodily vigor, and to the lengthening of life itself. They who …

Later in the series, I plan to include a more detailed explanation about how to implement the Charlotte Mason method in a typical school day, but it’s important to get …

One of the most frequent frustrations I hear among homeschooling moms is that they feel pressured  by time constraints. They haven’t completed the day’s lesson in the time they should …

Charlotte Mason believed (and proved) that children are born with an instinctive, curious nature only limited by a lack of opportunity to satiate it.  She also believed children had a capacity to …

A wonderfully enthusiastic, Charlotte Mason lover/homeschool mom came and spoke at our home last week.  It was a great time of refreshing and inspiration!  I’ve always loved the CM method, …

Readers often challenge me with questions/comments that I need to ponder seriously.  They are questions that matter, I am thankful for them and they need to be answered. “Kelly, you …

A mom’s got to multi-task, it’s just that simple.  And the more kiddos that are in the house, the more creative she has to be.  I’m always looking for ways …

ADDITION: Video below! Thank you Kathy! Robin and Scott have taught me a lot about faith.  Not “faith” in the blase way we use it to describe a belief system, …

Lately I’ve been catching myself listening to conversations–many of my own–with different ears, and I am aghast at what I hear.  We are supposed to be in an “economic recession”, …

(Susanna Wesley, mother of 19 children, nine dying in infancy.) During a year of absence, her husband having left temporarily over a minor dispute, Susanna wrote to him: “I am …

(This may possibly be a record for shortest post 😉 “I think God gives us the wisdom to make choices…” I disagree with that statement. I think God gives us …

While reading John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the greatest epic in English literature according to many, I discovered this truly simple yet profound connection between man’s eternal struggle to justify his …

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