A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also provide a great number of helpful episodes and resources as you plan for the upcoming school year. The episode closes with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead. “Every mother, especially, should keep a diary in which to note the successive phases of her child’s physical, mental, and moral growth, with particular attention to the moral.” (2/105-106) Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections Seasonal Reflection Questions Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method Episodes by Topic ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following) Teacher Training Videos ADE's Patreon Community Parents' Educational Course Episode 232: Forecasting Lessons -- How to plan Forecasting Teacher Training Video Form Overviews: Form IB Overview   Form IA Overview   Form IIB Overview   Form IIA Overview   Form III Overview   Forms IV-VI Overview Subjects By Form Episode 162: Creating Your Own CM Curriculum Curriculum Templates Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Your Curriculum Schedule Cards Episode 264: The Time-Table Episode 33: Scheduling a CM Education Awaken: Living Books Conference July 26-27, 2024

There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education. "The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19) "With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278) "Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20) Beauty & Truth Math Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method? Episode 182: Visualization Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books ADE's Patreon Community

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need. Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series (Audiobook) Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard Awaken Living Books Conference Episode 276: ADE Book Discussion: Vanity Fair ADE's Patreon Community

As we near the end of this season-long discussion on "Trusting the Method" we turn our attention to the curriculum itself. How can we choose curriculum that Trusts Charlotte Mason's Method? How can we evaluate whether a resource or curriculum follows the method in part or whole? How do we decide if we even *want* to trust the method with our curriculum? "N.B.1 In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able, but more work must be expected from I A." (All P.U.S. Programmes) Arabella Buckley's Eyes and No-Eyes Series Here and Here Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics Beauty & Truth Math Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method? Charlotte Mason's Curriculum Programmes Episode 70: CM Purists Visual Latin ADE's Teacher Helps Episode 6: Living Books Episode 7: Recognizing Living Books Episode 8: Narration 2.0 Episode 3: The Role of the Teacher Episode 5: The Power of Connection ADE's Episodes by Topic Charlotte Mason's Short Synopsis: Points 1-4   Points 5-8   Points 9-12   Points 13-15   Points 16-19   Point 20 ADE's Patreon Community

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, as she prepares to graduate her oldest student this spring, Morgan Conner joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. After jumping from one curriculum to the next, once Morgan discovered Charlotte Mason, she never looked back, but that doesn't mean it has always been easy. You will glean much from Morgan's vulnerability and honesty as she describes overcoming her perfectionistic tendencies and learned to trust the Lord with even the smallest details with her neurodiverse students. For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Q&A about Nature Walks Podcast Episode on Forecasting Forecasting Teacher Training Workshop Morgan's episode on Reading Charlotte Mason's Volumes Morgan's episode on Planning Physical Geography Lessons ADE's Patreon Community

Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 2, 2024, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to contribute what they had been taught by William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair. If you have read the book, you will revel in the myriad messages this book conveyed to us all, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.   Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray Talkbox.mom

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, Jami Hurt, mom of two homeschool graduates tells us about her experience with Charlotte Mason Homeschooling, and the joys she is witnessing with her boys who have now launched their own lives in young adulthood. For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard ADE's Patreon Community

As home educators trying to spread the wide feast of a Charlotte Mason education for multiple children, we feel the need to have our students working independently. But how do we get them there? Join Liz, Nicole, and Emily as they discuss the rewards and challenges with practical advice for how to help our children grow in independence--in school lessons and beyond.   “As we have already urged, there is but one right way, that is, children must do the work for themselves. They must read the given pages and tell what they have read, they must perform, that is, what we may call the act of knowing." (6/99) “One of the features, and one of the disastrous features, of modern society, is that, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a vast system of prodding.” (3/39) "...parents who have always satisfied the intellectual craving of their children must needs forego the delight of watching a literary awakening." (3/123) “The children must know themselves to be let alone, whether to do their own duty or to seek their own pleasure. The constraining power should be present, but passive, so that the child may not feel himself hemmed in without choice. That free-will of man, which has for ages exercised faithful souls who would prefer to be compelled into all righteousness and obedience, is after all a pattern for parents. The child who is good because he must be so, loses in power of initiative more than he gains in seemly behaviour. Every time a child feels that he chooses to obey of his own accord, his power of initiative is strengthened.” (3/31) "A parent may be willing to undergo any definite labours for his child's sake; but to be always catering for his behoof, always contriving that circumstances shall play upon him for his good, is the part of a god and not of a man!" (1/10) "Make children happy and they will be good,' is absolutely true, but does it develop that strenuousness, the first condition of virtue, which comes of the contrary axiom-' Be good and you will be happy'?" (3/57) "Let her distribute her time as she likes, but count her tale of bricks; let her choose books for her own reading, but know what she chooses; let her choose her own companions, but put before her the principles on which to choose..." (5/245) The Coddling of the American Mind, Haidt and Lukianoff Awaken: Living Books Conference 2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference} Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity ADE's Patreon Community

At the 2022 ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference Melissa Petermann of Charlotte Mason PE presented a talk entitled "Mindset, Margin, and Tactics: Homeschooling Through Trials & Chronic Illness." We've invited her onto the podcast this week to discuss some of the practical ways she has found to continue on even on hard days. "ln the things of science, in the things of art, in the things of practical everyday life, his God doth instruct him and doth teach him, her God doth instruct her and doth teach her. Let this be the mother's key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is infinite, the whole world is not too great a school for this indefatigable Teacher, and because He is infinite, He is able to give the whole of his infinite attention for the whole time to each one of his multitudinous pupils. We do not sufficiently rejoice in the wealth that the infinite nature of our God brings to each of us." (2/273) "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. The mother would be able to hold herself in 'wise passiveness,' and would not fret her children by continual interference, even of hand or eye-she would let them be." (3/33-34) 2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference} Melissa's Swedish Drill Resource Melissa's Mindset, Margin, and Tactics: Homeschooling Through Trials & Chronic Illness Workshop from the 2022 Conference Sabbath Mood Homeschool Science Guides Liz's Grammar Resource ADE's Patreon Community

Charlotte Mason, educator and philosopher, discusses the importance of children enjoying their books. The podcast explores the nuances of children's taste and the role it should play in selecting lesson books. It emphasizes the value of intellectual impact, sympathy, and understanding, as well as modeling reading challenging books and choosing age-appropriate read-alouds. The significance of providing appropriate books for children's reading habits is highlighted, along with the cultivation of children's taste for good literature. The podcast concludes with the benefits of reading books you may not initially like and details about the A.D.E. At Home Conference.