The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. The Story of Charlotte Mason Show Summary: This week Dawn and Cindy tackle some more listener questions with their personal opinions based on their experience and their reading Why is it incorrect to say that the right homeschooling philosophy is the one that works for your children? How do we seek to follow Charlotte Mason’s philosophy without idolizing the person or the philosophy? Are we doing something wrong if our children do not like to narrate or seem to enjoy the books that they have to narrate? Books and Links Mentioned: The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley Know and Tell by Karen Glass   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

Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. Here men do not begin to reason with a notion which causes them to lean to this side or to that. By degrees, absolute truth unfolds itself. We are so made that truth, absolute and certain truth, is a perfect joy to us; and that is the joy that mathematics afford. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guests are Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges of Climbing Higher Math How Julie and Tabitha each first learned about Charlotte Mason How do you approach math in a Charlotte Mason way? What advice do you have for teaching children who don’t enjoy math? How can moms approach math with less fear and more joy? What does the Climbing Higher Math program look like? Why moms don’t need to panic about math in high school Books and Links Mentioned: For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison Ray's Arithmetic   Find Cindy, Julie, and Tabitha: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Climbing Higher Math on Facebook Climbing Higher Math on Instagram

And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and Mary, not knowing what all this might mean to her, cried ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it to me according to Thy word.’ Charlotte Mason, Parents Review Article, “The Nativity” Show Summary: Today’s show is a special replay of last year’s popular Advent episode with Cindy and Dawn. To start off, Cindy shares how she started using Handel’s oratorio The Messiah for Advent. Dawn and Cindy also both share a little about their family Christmas book traditions. After that, we are bringing you the audio from 2020’s Hallelujah virtual gathering celebrating the launch of the new version of the book, featuring guests Greg Wilbur, Thomas Banks, Kerri Williamson, Lynn Bruce, Caitlyn Bruce Beauchamp, Kelly Cumbee, and Amy Edwards.   Listen Now:   Books and Links Mentioned: Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah by Cindy Rollins Papa Panov’s Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy The Bird’s Christmas Carol by Kate Douglass Wiggins Shoemaker Martin by The Third Gift by Linda Sue Park The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston Dawn’s Christmas Book Tradition “The Nativity” Parents Review Article Jessye Norman’s Christmastide Kathleen Battle’s Angel’s Glory Comfort and Joy The Sounding Joy Putumayo World Christmas Party Handel’s Messiah conducted by John Eliot Gardner   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   Subscribe: Audible Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Podcast Addict Spotify Stitcher We know how Joseph’s mind was disturbed and his heart rent (we may well believe), when the angel came and reassured him with word of the fulfilment of that prophecy of Isaiah’s,— a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and they shall call His name Immanuel.’ Charlotte Mason, Parents Review Article, “The Nativity”

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guests are Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong Kay is a veteran homeschooling mom to one son, as well as a piano teacher and literary enthusiast Christy is also a veteran homeschooling mom of one boy, and teaches at a local Charlotte Mason cottage school How did each of our guests learn about Charlotte Mason? What are some of the challenges you faced with homeschooling an only child? What did reading aloud look like in your home? How did you figure out if your child had some learning challenges that needed addressed? How did you use narration in your homeschool? Was there anything you wish had been different in your homeschooling years? How does a Charlotte Mason education continue for a mother after her children have graduated? Books and Links Mentioned: The Common Room Blog AmblesideOnline Uncle Wiggly’s Story Book by Howard R. Garis Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris Smart But Scattered Teens by Richard Guare, Ph. D., Peg Dawson, Ph. D., and Colin Guare SethPerler.com 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

Children learn to grow. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Sonya Shafer is a veteran homeschool mom of 4 daughters as well as a popular author and speaker and co-founder of Simply Charlotte Mason How Sonya first discovered Charlotte Mason How Sonya and her friend Karen Smith started Simply Charlotte Mason How Simply Charlotte Mason grew over time to cover a complete curriculum Why it is important for parents to have encouragement and support in home educating How people can pick and choose SCM resources that work together for a full course of study for the whole family A little about the Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series How Sonya has homeschooled her special needs daughter Books and Links Mentioned: A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Laying Down the Rails by Sonya Shafer Atomic Habits by James Clear Range by David Epstein Plato’s Lemonade Stand by Tom Morris Margin by Richard Swenson, M.D. Know and Tell by Karen Glass   Find Cindy and Sonya: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Simply Charlotte Mason The Simply Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Podcast

Today’s guest is Yolanda Mason, wife and homeschooling mother of 4, founder of the Heritage Learning Center in Charlotte, NC How Yolanda first heard about Charlotte Mason Why and how she started the Heritage Learning Center What is the value of a homeschool community like this? How narration can be improved in a group What the learning goals look like in community What a typical day looks like in Yolanda’s homeschool If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 33-34 Books and Links Mentioned: A Reasoned Patriotism Webinar   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

Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on which our curriculum turns. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 273 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Before getting to main the subject matter, Donna-Jean gives homeschooling moms a little encouragement and exhortation How This Country of Ours was chosen as a history spine for AmblesideOnline Why Donna-Jean decided to expand and update the book How Donna-Jean annotated, expanded and updated This Country of Ours What she hopes this new version accomplishes It is never too late to mend but we may not delay to offer such a liberal and generous diet of History to every child in the country as shall give weight to his decisions, consideration to his actions and stability to his conduct; that stability, the lack of which has plunged us into many a stormy sea of unrest. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 179 Books and Links Mentioned: Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason This Country of Ours, Vol.1 by H.E. Marshall: Annotated, Expanded and Updated by Donna-Jean Breckenridge A Reasoned Patriotism Webinar with Dawn Duran Find Cindy 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 Donna-Jean’s Facebook Donna-Jean’s Instagram Donna-Jean on MeWe

This week Dawn Duran joins Cindy to discuss the value and practice of Swedish Drill How Dawn first learned about Charlotte Mason What exactly is Swedish Drill? What is the connection between Swedish Drill and Charlotte Mason? What are the benefits of Swedish Drill in the school day? How did you develop your Swedish Drill Revisited materials? What ages can do Swedish Drill? Can this be done in groups or at home with just one or two children? I will only add, that to give the child pleasure in light and easy motion–the sort of delight in the management of his own body that a good rider finds in managing his horse–dancing, drill, calisthenics, some sort of judicious physical exercise, should make part of every day’s routine. Swedish drill is especially valuable, and many of the exercises are quite suitable for the nursery. Certain moral qualities come into play in alert movements, eye-to-eye attention, prompt and intelligent replies; but it often happens that good children fail in these points for want of physical training. Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home Education Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason Dawn’s Citizenship Webinar: A Reasoned Patriotism   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

Our aim in education is to give a full life…. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests…. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking – the strain would be too great – but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest. Charlotte Mason, School Education, pg. 170 Show Summary: Today’s episode is dedicated to remembering Wendi Capehart with special memorial messages from a few of her friends Dawn’s memories of Wendi How Cindy got to know Wendi Wendi’s other friends featured in this episode: Anne White Bethany Yoder Brandy Vencel Donna-Jean Breckenridge Jeannette Tulis Kathy Livingston Kay Pelham Lynn Bruce Naomi Goegan Phyllis Hunsucker Wendi’s favorite hymns and folk songs heard in this episode: What a Friend We Have In Jesus I Gave My Love a Cherry Anywhere with Jesus Froggy Went a Courtin’ O, Sacred Head Now Wounded John the Rabbit There’s Not A Friend (No, Not One) The Wellerman The Happy Wanderer Books and Links Mentioned: School Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason Ourselves by Charlotte Mason Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major AmblesideOnline Wendi’s Blog Episode 20 with Wendi 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

It is only in so far as Knowledge is dear to us and delights us for herself that she yields us lifelong joy and contentment. He who delights in her, not for the sake of showing off, and not for the sake of excelling others, but just because she is so worthy to be loved, cannot be unhappy. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book I Show Summary: Today’s guest is Jennifer Pepito, veteran homeschool mom, author, podcast host and creator of The Peaceful Press How Jennifer first heard about Charlotte Mason Some of the hightlights of Jennifer’s homeschooling journey What is one of the books that you have connected with the most in your homeschooling? How do you make space for reading aloud together as as family? How Jennifer’s book came out of her own parenting fears Books and Links Mentioned: Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito Ourselves by Charlotte Mason For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Hero Education by Oliver DeMille Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins The Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass For the Family’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay   Find Cindy and Jennifer: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Jennifer’s Instagram The Peaceful Press