by Hayley Beck | Sep 6, 2018 | Ambleside, Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Shakespeare
I almost didn’t write this post. Well, actually, I wrote it but almost deleted it. The extent of my knowledge and education and introduction to Shakespeare was this: “Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” I don’t know when I heard that line, where I heard it, but...
by Brandy Vencel | Aug 23, 2018 | Books & Reading, Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Parenting
It all started about fourteen years ago. I already had a habit of reading aloud to my toddler, but for some reason I felt like I’d had a life-altering experience the day I was reading Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn’s Teaching the Trivium and arrived at the...
by Brandy Vencel | Aug 16, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Mother's Education, Parenting
For the past twelve months, the topic of Masterly Inactivity has been a passion of mine. I’ve traveled to speak (and gotten to meet a number of you fantastic ladies!) and one of the talks I gave in every city I went to was all about one of my favorite ideas...
by Angelique Knaup | Aug 14, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling
Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It’s neither, my friend, neither. It’s number one … In a little community like ours, my dear, … we have a general number one; that is, you can’t consider yourself as...
by Brandy Vencel | Aug 10, 2018 | Home Education
This post contains affiliate links. :: 1 :: Do you clean out your Instagram followers? If you have a public account, you really should! I try to do this about once per month. This month I deleted a number of questionable-looking men. I also tend to delete accounts...
by Brandy Vencel | Aug 9, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Podcast
Today’s episode is a crossover episode with the Charlotte Mason Poetry Podcast, and I’m chatting with CMP’s very own Brittney McGann! Brittney and I read the book Bandersnatch together – it was an excellent read (I highly recommend it) and a great place to start for a...
