The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins explores the application of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy to the atmosphere, discipline, and life of our homes and schools. We cover Charlotte’s timeless principles as they work themselves out in our real and modern lives. Interviewing seasoned moms who have cherished Charlotte’s works while raising real children in real families, we endeavor to lay a foundation of hope and possibility for our listeners. However imperfectly.

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S4E58: An Orthodox Jewish Approach to Charlotte Mason with Bethany Mandel

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.
Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Bethany Mandel, Orthodox Jewish homeschooling mother of 6, co-author of the new book Stolen Youth, and conservative political commentator
How Bethany first heard of Charlotte Mason education
How Bethany juggled home educating and writing a book at the same time
What a typical day looks like in Bethany’s homeschool
How Bethany navigates the challenges of finding CM-friendly Jewish homeschool resources
How do you see Charlotte Mason lining up with Judaism?
Why reading stories from the past perspectives is so important today
What Bethany and Karol’s book is all about
Are these problematic ideas infiltrating the homeschool community?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason

Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz

Heroes of Liberty series edited by Bethany Mandel

Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Honey on the Page trans. by Miriam Udel

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

A Gentle Feast Curriculum

Find Cindy and Bethany:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Right Books 4 Kids on Instagram

Bethany’s Instagram

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S4E57: The Mater Amabilis Curriculum with Ella Rice

But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent evil, the preparation of the child to take his place in the world at his best…
Charlotte Mason, Home Education

Show Summary:

This week’s guest on The New Mason Jar is Ella Rice, is a homeschooling mom of 5 who uses the Mater Amabilis curriculum with her children
How Ella first learned about Charlotte Mason
Is Mater Amabilis only for Catholics?
What made you choose to use Mater Amabilis over other curriculum choices?
What are some of your favorite part of the curriculum?
How does Mater Amabilis handle the sciences?
Are there any possible pitfalls for parents using this curriculum?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Real Learning Revisited by Elizabeth Foss (this is the updated edition of the book Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home Ella mentioned)

The Mater Amabilis Facebook Group

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

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Emily Buchwald

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S4E56: Prioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon

The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of education based upon Natural Law. Does the child eat or drink, does he come, or go, or play––all the time he is being educated, though he is as little aware of it as he is of the act of breathing.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education

Show Summary:

Today on The New Mason Jar, Alanna Hendon returns to discuss more about using Charlotte Mason’s ideas in the homeschool
How Alanna came to Charlotte Mason and learned more about her principles in-depth
The gift of the unplanned and prioritizing principles over practices
How do you see Charlotte Mason’s philosophy playing out with individual children versus the group?
What a typical day looks like in Alanna’s homeschool

Books and Links Mentioned:

Home Education by Charlotte Mason

AmblesideOnline

Brandy Vencel’s Charlotte Mason Think Tank

Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew

Episode 51: Homeschool Boys with Alanna Hendon

Find Cindy and Alanna:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Alanna’s Instagram

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S4E55: Q & A No. 6 with Cindy and Dawn

…of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3

Show Summary:

Cindy and Dawn tackle another round of listener questions on this episode of The New Mason Jar
How can a mom of several school age children keep up with pre-reading?
How do you implement use of a Book of Centuries?
What can be done about children complaining about morning time?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason

Literary Life Online Conference – Shakespeare: The Bard for All and For All Time

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

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S4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White

...to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate;
so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all.
Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1

Show Summary:

Today’s returning guest is Anne White, veteran homeschool mom, author, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
Anne’s history with Lent and how she and her family started observing the seasons of the church year
What is different about Charlotte Mason’s book Ourselves than her other volumes?
How might Ourselves be used in the homeschool?
How Anne went on her own journey in writing Offering Ourselves
What are some of Anne’s family traditions for Lent and Easter?
How the AmblesideOnline Advisory created a new resource page for the Easter season

Books and Links Mentioned:

Offering Ourselves: A Lenten Journey with Charlotte Mason by Anne White

Honest, Simple Souls by Anne White

Studying to Be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping by Laurie Bestvater

100 Days of Keeping Invitation

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason

The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley

AmblesideOnline’s new Easter/Resurrection Idea page

Ideas Freely Sown by Anne White

The Practical Plutarch by Anne White

Find Cindy and Anne:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Anne Writes

Anne’s Author Page on Amazon

Anne’s Blog: Dewey’s Treehouse

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S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan

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?
Charlotte Mason, School Education

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Melissa McMahan, veteran homeschool mom of 2 graduates and 3 still at home, and long-time follower of AmblesideOnline
How Melissa first heard about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy
How Melissa came to start using the AmblesideOnline curriculum
What was it like thinking about getting your children ready for college?
Did having a Charlotte Mason hinder your daughters from getting a solid science foundation?
Has narration sufficiently prepared your students for college writing?
How learning to manage time at home helps students prepare for college and independence
Other tips for preparing high school homeschoolers for college

Books and Links Mentioned:

School Education by Charlotte Mason

Find Cindy and Megan:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

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S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt

…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young
people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due
to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and
pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating,
summarising, doing all those things for children which they are
born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do
give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and
we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of
intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and
digest at his leisure.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Megan Hoyt, veteran homeschooling mom, musician and author
Megan tells how she picked up her love of music from her parents and passed it on to her own
What is the overall theme of A Touch of the Infinite?
What are some of the misconceptions you think people have about Charlotte Mason and music education?
What did music education look like in your own homeschool?
How Megan wrote A Touch of the Infinite and what is in the book
How did you start writing children’s books?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Bartali’s Bicycle by Megan Hoyt

The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul

Hidegard’s Gift by Megan Hoyt

A Touch of the Infinite by Megan Hoyt

Find Cindy and Megan:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

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S4E51: Homeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon

Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing.
Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Alanna Hendon, homeschooling mom of 6, 5 of whom are boys
How Alanna came to learn about the Charlotte Mason philosophy
The lasting and eternal value of a Charlotte Mason education
How would you respond to the criticism that Charlotte Mason is too feminine for educating boys?
Approaching poetry with boys
What other elements of a CM education have had the most impact on your home?
How does Charlotte’s emphasis on the knowledge of God and encouragement of religious habits encourage boys in their own spiritual walk?

Books and Links Mentioned:

AmblesideOnline

Consider This by Karen Glass

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Classic Poems for Boys

The Poet’s Corner narr. by John Lithgow

Creativity by John Cleese

Find Cindy and Alanna:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Alanna’s Instagram

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S4E50: Public School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey

Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible––even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Volume 1

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Timilyn Downey, former public school teacher and home schooling mother
How Timilyn first learned about Charlotte Mason
How Timilyn finally chose to homeschool her sons
What role Timilyn’s husband plays in their education
How do you respond to criticism about older books not being relevant
Why it is so important to understand the philosophy behind educational methods
Why Timilyn believe fiction and fairy tales are so crucial

Books and Links Mentioned:

Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins

Morning Time by Cindy Rollins

For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Consider This by Karen Glass

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stephenson

Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew

A Study of English Romanticism by Northrop Frye

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century by C. S. Lewis

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

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S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra

Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1

Show Summary:

Today’s guests are Anna Hornstra and two of her three daughters, Addison and Ella
How Anna came to homeschooling early on
What happened when Anna let doubts and systems set the tone of their homeschool
How Charlotte Mason’s principles have played out in Anna’s home

Books and Links Mentioned:

Home Education by Charlotte Mason

The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading by Jennie Wise and Sara Buffington

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Medea by Euripides

AmblesideOnline

Tending the Soul Art by Addison and Ella

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S4E48: Math in the Charlotte Mason Model with Richele Baburina

Miss Mason taught us that ‘Education is the science of relations’ and that a child should feel from the very beginning that his relations with number are opening up to him yet another realm of beautiful and wonderful things for his enjoyment and delight.
Number: A Figure and a Step Onward, Mrs. W.A. Stephens, The Parents’ Review

Show Summary:

Today’s guest is Richele Baburina, a veteran homeschooling mother of 2 and author of The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series, and Brush Drawing: A Basic Course
How Richele first heard about Charlotte Mason
How Richele began researching Charlotte’s ideas about teaching mathematics
What levels is The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithemetic Series for?
What were some of the surprising things Richele learned in her research?

Books and Links Mentioned:

The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series by Richele Baburina

Brush Drawing: A Basic Course by Richele Baburina

Find Cindy and Richele:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Richele’s Instagram

Richele’s Artwork Website

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S3E47: Christmas Memories with Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge

Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us,
And we beheld His glory, as, of God,
The only-begotten Son: we who believed
Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs—
Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings—
But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him;
And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple,
His glory saw we—full of grace and truth.
Charlotte Mason, from “Savior of the World,”
Prologue to the Gospel according to St. John

Show Summary:

Today’s guests are Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge, and together with Cindy they talk about Christmas memories
What did homeschooling look like around the Christmas holidays?
Why it is okay to take time off from your normal school work for Christmas celebrations
Why traditions are so important, possibly even more so as children grow older
What are some traditions that your family keeps from previous generations?
Handling changes and trauma as the years go by and still keep Christmas with courage
What are some Christmas “fails” that happened in your family?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Saviour of the World, Volume 1 by Charlotte Mason

This Country of Ours: Annotated, Expanded and Updated, Vol. 1 by Donna-Jean Breckenridge

Episode 40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating This Country of Ours

Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah by Cindy Rollins

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder

Find Cindy, Lynn, 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

Lynn’s Instagram

Donna-Jean’s Facebook

Donna-Jean’s Instagram

Donna-Jean on MeWe

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S3E46: Q&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn

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

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S3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges

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

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S2E44: Reprise of A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration

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.

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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

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Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

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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”

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S3E43: Homeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong

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

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S3E42: Simply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer

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

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S3E41: Homeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason

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

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S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”

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

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S3E39: Swedish Drill with Dawn Duran

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

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Dawn’s Swedish Drill Website

Dawn’s Articles on Afterthoughtsblog.net

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S4E58: An Orthodox Jewish Approach to Charlotte Mason with Bethany Mandel

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S4E57: The Mater Amabilis Curriculum with Ella Rice

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S4E56: Prioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon

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S4E55: Q & A No. 6 with Cindy and Dawn

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S4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White

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S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan

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S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt

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S4E51: Homeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon

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S4E50: Public School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey

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S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra

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S4E48: Math in the Charlotte Mason Model with Richele Baburina

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S3E47: Christmas Memories with Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge

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S3E46: Q&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn

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S3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges

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S2E44: Reprise of A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration

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S3E43: Homeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong

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S3E42: Simply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer

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S3E41: Homeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason

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S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”

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S3E39: Swedish Drill with Dawn Duran

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