by Brandy Vencel | May 16, 2018 | Book Lists, Books & Reading, Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling, Mother's Education, Parenting
It’s that time again! At the end of each spring, I publish two reading lists: The Mother Culture Reading List and the Mothers’ Education Course Reading List. As the title says, this first one is the Mother Culture list. Mother Culture is your life blood as...
by Brandy Vencel | May 14, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Classical, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling
On a bright July morning in 2008, I was 8.5-months pregnant and very nauseous (always nauseous). We had also just moved, proving that difficult situations can always be made worse. But no matter. Our new house was perfect for us and today was designated the first day...
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 Dawn Duran | Apr 24, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Groups and Co-ops, Home Education, Homeschooling, Mother's Education, Swedish Drill
Are you ready to continue the conversation about community? Let’s begin with the following quote from an 1888 pamphlet called DRAFT PROOF written by Charlotte Mason: No other part of the world’s work is of such supreme difficulty, delicacy and importance, as that of...
by Brandy Vencel | Apr 18, 2018 | Charlotte Mason, Education, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Homeschooling
Imagination tells us that ‘Mother’ does not understand us, does not know half what great persons we are; that ‘Father’ is not kind, that Lucy or Edward is more noticed than we are, that lessons are hateful, that going for a walk is a bother,...
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...
