The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of education based upon Natural Law. Does the child eat or drink, does he come, or go, or play––all the time he is being educated, though he is as little aware of it as he is of the act of breathing. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today on The New Mason Jar, Alanna Hendon returns to discuss more about using Charlotte Mason’s ideas in the homeschool How Alanna came to Charlotte Mason and learned more about her principles in-depth The gift of the unplanned and prioritizing principles over practices How do you see Charlotte Mason’s philosophy playing out with individual children versus the group? What a typical day looks like in Alanna’s homeschool Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason AmblesideOnline Brandy Vencel’s Charlotte Mason Think Tank Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew Episode 51: Homeschool Boys with Alanna Hendon   Find Cindy and Alanna: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Alanna’s Instagram

…of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3 Show Summary: Cindy and Dawn tackle another round of listener questions on this episode of The New Mason Jar How can a mom of several school age children keep up with pre-reading? How do you implement use of a Book of Centuries? What can be done about children complaining about morning time? Books and Links Mentioned: Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason Literary Life Online Conference – Shakespeare: The Bard for All and For All Time   Find Cindy and Dawn: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Dawn’s Swedish Drill Website Dawn’s Articles on Afterthoughtsblog.net

...to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1 Show Summary: Today’s returning guest is Anne White, veteran homeschool mom, author, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Anne’s history with Lent and how she and her family started observing the seasons of the church year What is different about Charlotte Mason’s book Ourselves than her other volumes? How might Ourselves be used in the homeschool? How Anne went on her own journey in writing Offering Ourselves What are some of Anne’s family traditions for Lent and Easter? How the AmblesideOnline Advisory created a new resource page for the Easter season   Books and Links Mentioned: Offering Ourselves: A Lenten Journey with Charlotte Mason by Anne White Honest, Simple Souls by Anne White Studying to Be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping by Laurie Bestvater 100 Days of Keeping Invitation Ourselves by Charlotte Mason The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley AmblesideOnline’s new Easter/Resurrection Idea page Ideas Freely Sown by Anne White The Practical Plutarch by Anne White   Find Cindy and Anne: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Anne Writes Anne’s Author Page on Amazon Anne’s Blog: Dewey’s Treehouse

The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him? Charlotte Mason, School Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Melissa McMahan, veteran homeschool mom of 2 graduates and 3 still at home, and long-time follower of AmblesideOnline How Melissa first heard about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy How Melissa came to start using the AmblesideOnline curriculum What was it like thinking about getting your children ready for college? Did having a Charlotte Mason hinder your daughters from getting a solid science foundation? Has narration sufficiently prepared your students for college writing? How learning to manage time at home helps students prepare for college and independence Other tips for preparing high school homeschoolers for college   Books and Links Mentioned: School Education by Charlotte Mason   Find Cindy and Megan: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Melissa’s Instagram Melissa’s Youtube

…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating, summarising, doing all those things for children which they are born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and digest at his leisure. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Megan Hoyt, veteran homeschooling mom, musician and author Megan tells how she picked up her love of music from her parents and passed it on to her own What is the overall theme of A Touch of the Infinite? What are some of the misconceptions you think people have about Charlotte Mason and music education? What did music education look like in your own homeschool? How Megan wrote A Touch of the Infinite and what is in the book How did you start writing children’s books?   Books and Links Mentioned: Bartali’s Bicycle by Megan Hoyt The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul Hidegard’s Gift by Megan Hoyt A Touch of the Infinite by Megan Hoyt   Find Cindy and Megan: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Megan’s Website Megan’s Facebook Megan’s Instagram Megan’s Twitter

Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children Show Summary: Today’s guest is Alanna Hendon, homeschooling mom of 6, 5 of whom are boys How Alanna came to learn about the Charlotte Mason philosophy The lasting and eternal value of a Charlotte Mason education How would you respond to the criticism that Charlotte Mason is too feminine for educating boys? Approaching poetry with boys What other elements of a CM education have had the most impact on your home? How does Charlotte’s emphasis on the knowledge of God and encouragement of religious habits encourage boys in their own spiritual walk? Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline Consider This by Karen Glass Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Classic Poems for Boys The Poet’s Corner narr. by John Lithgow Creativity by John Cleese   Find Cindy and Alanna: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Alanna’s Instagram

Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible––even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Volume 1 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Timilyn Downey, former public school teacher and home schooling mother How Timilyn first learned about Charlotte Mason How Timilyn finally chose to homeschool her sons What role Timilyn’s husband plays in their education How do you respond to criticism about older books not being relevant Why it is so important to understand the philosophy behind educational methods Why Timilyn believe fiction and fairy tales are so crucial Books and Links Mentioned: Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins Morning Time by Cindy Rollins For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Consider This by Karen Glass The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stephenson Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew A Study of English Romanticism by Northrop Frye English Literature in the Sixteenth Century by C. S. Lewis   Find Cindy: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram

Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guests are Anna Hornstra and two of her three daughters, Addison and Ella How Anna came to homeschooling early on What happened when Anna let doubts and systems set the tone of their homeschool How Charlotte Mason’s principles have played out in Anna’s home Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading by Jennie Wise and Sara Buffington The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper Medea by Euripides AmblesideOnline Tending the Soul Art by Addison and Ella Find Cindy: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram

Miss Mason taught us that ‘Education is the science of relations’ and that a child should feel from the very beginning that his relations with number are opening up to him yet another realm of beautiful and wonderful things for his enjoyment and delight. Number: A Figure and a Step Onward, Mrs. W.A. Stephens, The Parents’ Review Show Summary: Today’s guest is Richele Baburina, a veteran homeschooling mother of 2 and author of The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series, and Brush Drawing: A Basic Course How Richele first heard about Charlotte Mason How Richele began researching Charlotte’s ideas about teaching mathematics What levels is The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithemetic Series for? What were some of the surprising things Richele learned in her research? Books and Links Mentioned: The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series by Richele Baburina Brush Drawing: A Basic Course by Richele Baburina Find Cindy and Richele: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Richele’s Instagram Richele’s Artwork Website

Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us, And we beheld His glory, as, of God, The only-begotten Son: we who believed Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs— Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings— But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him; And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple, His glory saw we—full of grace and truth. Charlotte Mason, from “Savior of the World,” Prologue to the Gospel according to St. John Show Summary: Today’s guests are Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge, and together with Cindy they talk about Christmas memories What did homeschooling look like around the Christmas holidays? Why it is okay to take time off from your normal school work for Christmas celebrations Why traditions are so important, possibly even more so as children grow older What are some traditions that your family keeps from previous generations? Handling changes and trauma as the years go by and still keep Christmas with courage What are some Christmas “fails” that happened in your family?   Books and Links Mentioned: Saviour of the World, Volume 1 by Charlotte Mason This Country of Ours: Annotated, Expanded and Updated, Vol. 1 by Donna-Jean Breckenridge Episode 40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating This Country of Ours Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah by Cindy Rollins The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder   Find Cindy, Lynn, and Donna-Jean: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Lynn’s Instagram Donna-Jean’s Facebook Donna-Jean’s Instagram Donna-Jean on MeWe