Books are not just for school lessons, but as Charlotte Mason concurred, family read-aloud time is essential to the education of a child. Listen in as Emily, Nicole, and Liz reminisce about their own experiences and share an abundance of suggestions for how to make family reading part of your family culture.

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“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.” (1/227)

“There are few stronger family bonds than this habit of devoting an occasional hour to reading aloud, on winter evenings, at any rate…But this, of reading aloud, is not a practice to be taken up and laid down at pleasure. Let the habit drop, and it is difficult to take it up again.” (5/220)

[Read for] “the pleasure of other people from the moment when they can read fluently at all.” (5/220)

“It is not important that many books should be read; but it is important that only good books should be read.” (5/223)

A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond

The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

The Yearling, Marjorie Rawlings

The Little House series

Charlotte’s Web, EB White

Betsy and the Circus, Carolyn Haywood

Wild Geese Flying, Cornelia Meigs

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

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Homeschooling with Charlotte Mason’s method brings life, more life than we expect. Don’t miss this episode from the Charlotte Mason in Our Community series if you wonder about habits, notebook organization, the purpose of handicrafts, service to others, creativity, time management, and productivity. Micah Pettes joins the ADE ladies to discuss the story of how her Charlotte Mason education inspired a family business that is blessing hundreds of other families.

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“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?” (Vol. 3, pp. 170-71)

Business Boutique, Christy Wright

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Charlotte Mason

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Juniper Grove Journals

Riverbend Press (Art Prints, Book of Centuries, TImelines)

A Humble Place (Art Prints)

Simply Charlotte Mason Picture Study Portfolios

A Living Education Homeschool Planner (Wall Art and Binder Covers too)

Charlotte Mason Audio Books:

Emily Reads Volumes 1 and 4

Librivox.org

Living Book Press (coming soon!)

Humble Heart Press

Shakespeare Bookmarks

Shakespeare Finger Puppets

Twig and Moth (Journals and Wall Art with CM quotes)

This is a re-release/update to our original Episode #80. Charlotte Mason developed her educational method for all students, but many feel that by high school they must get on to more serious preparation for college or career and abandon the course they have been on. The moms of A Delectable Education discuss the high school years, what studies are tackled, how to deal with college transcripts and applications and college entrance exams. Does Mason’s curriculum prepare a child for the real world? Will they be able to succeed in a non-Charlotte Mason environment? What does high school look like if you follow a Mason approach to education?

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“The work of the Parents’ Union School led up naturally, and without any real break, to the larger life of the public school, for which the children by their early training were well fitted, as it seemed merely the stepping from one classroom to another, so comprehensive and intelligent had been the previous preparation.” (In Memoriam, p. 45)

“The history studies of Forms V and VI (ages 15-18) are more advanced and more copious and depend for illustration upon readings in the literature of the period…But any sketch of the history teaching in a given period depends upon the ‘literature’ set; for plays, novels, essays, ‘lives,’ poems, are all pressed into service and where it is possible, the architecture, painting, etc., which the period produced.” (Vol. 6, pp. 176-78)

“I feel one of the joys of the Sixth Form is that there the girls can go on with the subjects they are most keenly interested in–subjects they have been longing to have time for–and freedom of choice is one of its characteristics…[they] learn how little they know–what fields of knowledge there are of which they know.” (A P.U.S. Headmistress, writing in the Parents’ Review)

“But the people themselves begin to understand and to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books. The more of a person we succeed in making a child, the better will he both fulfil his own life and serve society.” (Vol. 6, p. 3)

“All callings have one thing in common––they are of use; and, therefore, a person may prepare for his calling years before he knows what it is. What sort of person is of use in the world?” (Vol. 4, Book I, p. 205)

“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?” (Vol. 3, pp. 170-71)

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Charlotte Mason

Michael Faraday

You Can Teach Your Child Successfully, Ruth Beechick

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CM Peoria Conference

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