Charlotte Mason hoped that children, educated upon many, beautiful ideas and supported in good habits, would grow up to continue learning their whole lives. With that in mind, educating our children is a dynamic process that moves toward this big picture. We choose books, plan lessons, and teach our kids, but as they get bigger, […]
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Charlotte Mason believed that children should learn a second language from a very young age. She felt this was so important that teaching foreign language made it into the very short list of daily subjects for a child under six! But if we have little or no knowledge of a second language, it’s hard to know
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Sometimes homeschooling doesn’t feel very peaceful. Whether our kids are dragging their feet, or we’re struggling with our own attitudes, it’s worth thinking about how we can get our day out of a downward spiral and heading toward something better.In this episode, Leah and Amy talk about what to do when our day is less
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How are handicrafts going? Whether you are crafting up a storm or struggling with consistency, we hope that this episode will be helpful and encouraging. We chat about why handicrafts are part of a Charlotte Mason curriculum, what we need to think about when we choose handicrafts, as well as sharing what and how we’ve
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The Thinking Love Podcast is back for a new season, and we’ll be talking Everyday Homeschooling. First up: what do we do with some of the not-so-everyday homeschool days, like the first day back after a summer break? Amy and Leah talk about how we can keep family traditions genuine, rather than an attempt to
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It’s summer! Whether you follow a more traditional school schedule or school year-round, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, it’s time for some sun and hopefully some fun. In our season finale, Leah and Amy chat about what we do when we’re not doing school and how our children (not to mention ourselves) can find
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Technological advances seem to happen faster and faster, and for many of us homeschool moms, we would prefer to tuck ourselves away with our book stacks and nature journals. But hiding from the Information Age could mean that we are missing opportunities to enrich our homeschools on one hand, and prepare our children for the
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Is the Charlotte Mason method enough? In a world full of pressure to achieve and attain, most of us have asked this question. Perhaps it looms largest on the minds of parents of kids with special needs. But for education specialist and home educator Amy Bodkin, the answer is a definite, “Yes”. If your child
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In this episode of the podcast, Amy and Leah circle back to the topic of habit training, but with a special focus this time on kids with differently wired brains. We explore how we might expand our understanding of “Education is a Discipline” and think about how to break habits down in order to help
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In the last episode of the podcast, Amy and Leah explored what Charlotte Mason really said about kindergarten. Today, they are back with Jennifer Dowdy from Charlotte Mason Mama to talk about how and why we might want to create a kindergarten year for our younger children. Jennifer, a veteran Charlotte Mason homeschooler of thirteen
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