The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

Let me repeat that I venture to suggest, not what is practicable in any household but what seems to me absolutely best for the children; and that, in the faith that mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders are demanded of them. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guests are the author and illustrator of a new picture book on the life of Charlotte Mason, Lanaya Gore and Twila Farmer How did this book come to be? How did Lanaya and Twila come to work together on this project? What was the process of writing and illustrating like? Did anything surprise you as you researched Charlotte and her life? How do you hope people will use this book? Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley Charlotte Mason, The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder by Lanaya Gore and Twila Farmer Books illustrated by Garth Williams Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Miracles by C. S. Lewis Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear   Find Cindy, Lanaya and Twila: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Lanaya’s Instagram Lanaya’s Blog Twila’s Instagram Twila’s Website

Today’s episode is another Q & A session with Cindy and Dawn How do you incorporate narration later on in a child’s schooling? Can you talk more about the importance of written narrations? How do you check all your students’ work and juggle different levels of students? How do you combine subjects for multiple ages of students? What are your thoughts on using the Charlotte Mason method without an understanding of Christian theology? Some closing thoughts and encouragement from Cindy Books Mentioned: School Education by Charlotte Mason How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer AO for Groups on AmblesideOnline   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   Subscribe: Audible Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Podcast Addict Spotify Stitcher

The average child studies with delight. We do not say he will remember all he knows, but, to use a phrase of Jane Austen’s, he will have had his “imagination warmed” in many regions of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Vol. 3 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karla Areas, homeschool mother of 2 children and co-founder of the Charlotte Mason Memphis support group How Karla first came to know about Charlotte Mason What kinds of adaptations Karla made to narration, short lessons and other CM methods to work with her special needs child What are some of the features of a Charlotte Mason education that works so well for teaching special needs? How an average school day looked for Karla and her son as he continued to grow How do you take care of your neuro-typical children at the same time as caring for a special needs child? Karla’s advice for all homeschooling moms to stay the course Books and Links Mentioned: School Education by Charlotte Mason AmblesideOnline   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 The horse is made ready for the day of battle,     but victory rests with the Lord. Proverbs 21:31

Today’s guest is Dawn Garrett, homeschooling mother of 3, and Community Manager at PamBarnhill.com How Dawn came to hear about Charlotte Mason after being a neo-Classical home educator What did your transition look like when you started using more Charlotte Mason methods? Did you have any concerns or challenges as you made that transition? How did your children respond to the change? What is your advice for parents wanting to make the shift? Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline In Memoriam by the Parents’ National Education Union   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 Website Dawn’s Instagram There is a saying of King Alfred’s that I like to apply to our School,–“I have found a door,” he says. That is just what I hope your School is to you–a door opening into a great palace of art and knowledge in which there are many chambers all opening into gardens or field paths, forest or hills. One chamber, entered through a beautiful Gothic archway, is labeled Bible Knowledge, and there the Scholar finds goodness as well as knowledge, as indeed he does in many others of the fair chambers. You see that doorway with much curious lettering? History is within, and that is, I think, an especially delightful chamber. But it would take too long to investigate all these pleasant places and indeed you could label a good many of the doorways from the headings of your term’s programme. But you will remember that the School is only a “Door” to let you in to the goodly House of Knowledge, but I hope you will go in and out and live there all your lives–in one pleasant chamber and another; for the really rich people are they who have the entry to this goodly House, and who never let King Alfred’s ‘Door’ rust on its hinges, no, not all through their lives, even when they are very old people. I have a great hope for all you dear Scholars of the P.U.S.; other people will be a little the better because you love knowledge, and have learnt to think fair, just thoughts about things, and to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven in which is all that is beautiful, good and happy-making. I must not take up any more of the time in which there are so many things to be done, so, wish you the very happiest week in all your happy lives. Charlotte Mason as recorded in In Memoriam (pp 115-116)

We as teachers depreciate ourselves and our office; we do not realize that in the nature of things the teacher has a prophetic power of appeal and inspiration, that his part is not the weariful task of spoon-feeding with pap-meat, but the delightful commerce of equal minds where his is the part of guide, philosopher and friend. The friction of wills which makes school work harassing ceases to a surprising degree when we deal with the children, mind to mind, through the medium of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Jami Marstall, homeschooling mom of 4, two who have graduated, and lifelong learner How Jami first started learning about Charlotte Mason Why do you think parents are hesitant about using Charlotte Mason through high school? What advice do you have for parents whose students are transitioning into high school? What about writing high school transcripts? Is high school a good time to outsource some of your child’s education? How did you adapt and change the curriculum for your different children’s interests and abilities? Books and Links Mentioned: A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay For the Family’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay   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

Today’s guest is Tammy Glaser, mother of 2 adult children, one with special needs, as well as a founder of a Charlotte Mason private school How Tammy discovered Charlotte Mason and decided it would work well for her family Why Tammy’s school integrates special needs, gifted and neuro-typical children in the same classroom What parts of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy are particularly suited for working with special needs students? What advice do you have for homeschooling children with special needs? Looking back now, do you still think it was the right decision to use Charlotte Mason methods with your daughter? Books and Links Mentioned: Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola Home Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason   Find Cindy and Tammy: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Tammy’s Mathematics Website–Rarefied Many Christian people rise a little higher; they conceive that even grammar and arithmetic may in some not very clear way be used for God; but the great recognition that God the Holy Spirit is Himself, personally, the Imparter of knowledge, the Instructor of youth, the Inspirer of genius, is a conception so far lost to us that we should think it distinctly irreverent to conceive of the divine teaching as co-operating with ours in a child’s arithmetic lesson, for example. But the Florentine mind of the Middle Ages went further than this: it believed, not only that the seven Liberal Arts were fully under the direct outpouring of the Holy Ghost, but that every fruitful idea, every original conception, whether in Euclid, or grammar, or music, was a direct inspiration from the Holy Spirit, without any thought at all as to whether the person so inspired named himself by the name of God, recognised whence his inspiration came. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children, Vol. 2

It is by the aid of imagination that a child comes to love people who do not belong to his own country, and as he learns the history of their great deeds and noble efforts, he is eager to learn something of the country in which they lived….of the causes that made the people what they are. E. A. Parish, Parents’ Review, VOl. 25, No. 5, 1914 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Wendi Capehart, veteran homeschool mom, world-traveler, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How Wendi first found out about Charlotte Mason What would you say to people concerned that Charlotte Mason is too Western or “white-centric”? What suggestions do you have for people wanting to add more cross-cultural awareness to a Charlotte Mason education? What part do folk songs play in a Charlotte Mason education? Books and Links Mentioned: “Imagination As a Powerful Factor in a Well-Balance Mind” by E. A. Parish For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay The Big Book of Home Learning by Mary Pride Extending the Table: Recipes and Stories from Afghanistan to Zambia by Joetta Schlabach The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Commission Home Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason American Folk Songs for Children by Mike and Peggy Seeger Find Cindy and Wendi: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Wendi’s Instagram Wendi’s Blog

But, once more, “This kind cometh forth only by prayer.” Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How did Donna-Jean first hear about Charlotte Mason? Where did the phrase “however imperfectly” come from? The value of small things done faithfully. Why Donna-Jean views homeschooling her grandchildren now as a gift. What to do when you are tempted to compare or to change everything up. What Donna-Jean is doing these days besides homeschooling. Books and Links Mentioned: For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Home Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason The AmblesideOnline Poetry Anthology Consider This by Karen Glass In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass Principles at the Helm Audio Seminar by Karen Glass 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 Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships—in other words, try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards, and we perceive that the education we are giving exceeds all that we intended or imagined. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Vol. 3

“Sound principles that are old may easily be laid on the shelf and forgotten, unless in each successive generation a few industrious people can be found who will take the trouble to draw them forth from the storehouse.” Thomas Godolphin Rooper Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, author and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Why do people think that Charlotte Mason and Classical education are different things? What is the basis for “neo-classical” pedagogy? Do we know what Charlotte Mason herself thought of classical education? Is there a particular version of historical classical education that spoke to Charlotte Mason? Is there a difference between classical education and liberal education? How do you determine if Charlotte Mason and classical education are compatible? What is the most classical thing about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy? Does it matter whether we link Charlotte Mason to classical education? Why? Books Mentioned: Consider This by Karen Glass Norms and Nobility by David Hicks Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason The Basis of National Education by Charlotte Mason Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason School Education by Charlotte Mason Find Cindy and Karen: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram KarenGlass.net Karen’s Facebook Karen’s Instagram

And what a barren and dry land should we dwell in if our spirits were narrowed to the limits of that which we can comprehend! Where we err is in supposing that mystery is confined to our religion, that everything else is obvious and open to our understanding: whereas the great things of life, birth, death, hope, love, patriotism, why a leaf is green, and why a bird is clothed in feathers–all such things as these are mysteries; and it is only as we can receive that which we cannot understand, and can discern the truth of that which we cannot prove, and can distinguish between a luminous mystery and a bewildering superstition, that we are able to live the full life for which we were made. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Volume 4, Book 2 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Adrienne Freas, a classical Charlotte Mason education consultant How did you make the connection between classical and Charlotte Mason education? How did you come to learn about Charlotte Mason in the first place? How did you get into applying these principles to charter and public school settings? How do you train and help school teachers to use these methods? What are the biggest challenges in helping a school convert to Charlotte Mason methods? What is the value of discord and challenges in understanding? Books and Links Mentioned: Ourselves by Charlotte Mason Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Better Late Than Early by Raymond and Dorothy Moore AmblesideOnline The Literary Life of Adrienne Freas 2019 Back to School Conference Find Cindy and Adrienne: Morning Time for Moms Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group Mere Motherhood Facebook Group The Literary Life Podcast Cindy’s Facebook Cindy’s Instagram Adrienne’s Classical Education Facebook Group