It is with deep regret that we at A Delectable Education must end any affiliation or appearance of endorsement of the Charlotte Mason Institute (CMI) or Charlotte Mason’s Alveary. Over the summer it came to our attention that CMI is violating our copyright by using the intellectual property contained in A Delectable Education’s Scheduling Cards without our permission. Despite offering several alternatives to the Institute, our concerns were ignored. As a result, we issue this statement to inform our listeners that CMI and The Alveary have not obtained license or permission to use the original ideas presented by A Delectable Education in their materials. We would have preferred for the matter to be settled privately, without the need for this disclosure. Again, it gives us great sadness to end our long relationship with CMI.
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Episode 143: Charlotte Mason in Our Homes, Jonathon Landell
children, has helped him with his challenges, and has brought special rewards.
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{Jonathon and his two girls}
“One more thing is of vital importance; children must have books, living books; the best are not too good for them; anything less than the best is not good enough; and if it is needful to exercise economy, let go everything that belongs to soft and luxurious living before letting go the duty of supplying the books, and the frequent changes of books, which are necessary for the constant stimulation of the child’s intellectual life.” (2/279)
Charlotte Mason’s Home Education Series
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Episode 142: A Mother’s Nature Notebook
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[Images from Nicole’s Nature Notebooks]
For the Children’s Sake, Macaulay
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Edwards
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The Charm of Nature Study, Dowton (Parents’ Review, Vol. 41)
Teaching of Drawing and Its Place in Education, Williams (Parents’ Review, Vol. 34)
Episode 141: Slipshod Habits of Reading
beautiful reader.
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Home Education (Volume 1) pp. 225-230
“The child who has been taught to read with care and deliberation until he has mastered the words of a limited vocabulary, usually does the rest for himself. The attention of his teachers should be fixed on two points–that he acquires the habit of reading, and that he does not fall into slipshod habits of reading.” (1/226)
“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. Knowledge is conveyed to them by lessons and talk, but the studious habit of using books as a means of interest and delight is not acquired. This habit should be begun early; so soon as the child can read at all, he should read for himself, and to himself, history, legends, fairy tales, and other suitable matter. He should be trained from the first to think that one reading of any lesson is enough to enable him to narrate what he has read, and will thus get the habit of slow, careful reading, intelligent even when it is silent, because he reads with an eye to the full meaning of every clause.” (1/227)
“I have already spoken of the importance of a single reading. If a child is not able to narrate what he has read once, let him not get the notion that he may, or that he must, read it again. A look of slight regret because there is a gap in his knowledge will convict him.” (1/229-30)
“It is important that, when reading aloud, children should make due use of the vocal organs, and, for this reason, a reading lesson should be introduced by two or three simple breathing exercises, as, for a example, a long inspiration with closed lips and a slow expiration with open mouth.” (1/230)
“He should have practice, too, in reading aloud, for the most part, in the books he is using for his term’s work. These should include a good deal of poetry, to accustom him to the delicate rendering of shades of meaning, and especially to make him aware that words are beautiful in themselves, that they are a source of pleasure, and are worthy of our honour; and that a beautiful word deserves to be beautifully said, with a certain roundness of tone and precision of utterance. Quite young children are open to this sort of teaching, conveyed, not in a lesson, but by a word now and then.” (1/227)
“The child must express what he feels to be the author’s meaning; and this sort of intelligent reading comes only of the habit of reading with understanding.” (1/227)
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Episode 140: Special Live Q&A Episode
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“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.” (1/44)
My Family and Other Animals, Durrell
Letters of St. Catherine of Siena
Charlotte Mason’s Home Education Series
English Literature for Boys and Girls, Marshall
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Charlotte Mason Soiree (Annual Retreat Info Here)
Art’s Talk: Mason’s Program for Bible Lessons
On Questions and Questioning Blog by Liz Cottrill