by Caitlin Beauchamp | Nov 21, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Parenting, technology
Perhaps the best way to begin a conversation about atmosphere is to talk about what it isn’t. This is, in fact, exactly how Charlotte Mason goes about it: Our motto is, — ‘Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.’ When we say that education is an...
by Caitlin Beauchamp | Sep 25, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Other Thoughts, Parenting, Preschool, Trauma
Along a particular path at our local botanical garden there is a bush that blooms all summer in clear shades of orange and magenta and yellow. Bees throng to it — big, slow bumble bees with tidy yellow bags of pollen on their hind legs. Here, for just a moment,...
by Caitlin Beauchamp | Jun 28, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Preschool
(on Charlotte Mason, sensory integration, and things seen at the dentist’s office…) Recently, during our biannual exposure to children’s television at the pediatric dentist, I saw a commercial that’s stuck with me. As I recall, the commercial introduces us to...
by Caitlin Beauchamp | May 7, 2018 | Ambleside, Charlotte Mason, Education, Home Education, Homeschooling
My mom grew up on a wheat farm outside a small town in north Texas. She’s got a store of tall tales about killing rattlesnakes and pulling calves, our own family mythology. My siblings and I are city kids, raised in suburbia, but we spent lots of time at my...
by Caitlin Beauchamp | Apr 3, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Mother's Education
I’ve been thinking lately about a story told me by one of my favorite teachers, a professor from England who wore tweed hats and occasionally teared up while reading poetry aloud to his classes. It was the story of his first encounter with the divine as a child raised...
