This Q&A episode of the Charlotte Mason podcast addresses such varied topics as introducing the Book of Centuries, dawdling and disinterested beginners, preschoolers participation, and transitioning students to independent reading. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "In the first place, never let the child dawdle over copybook or sum, sit dreaming with his book before ...
Jan 13, 2017•30 min
Charlotte Mason's feast spreads to include the subject of architecture. A Delectable Education podcast this week is an interview with Sandra Zuidema who has discovered the joy of exploring the ideas in architecture, its history, people, structures and culture and shares ways she has introduced this to her children. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "But any sketch of the ...
Dec 30, 2016•31 min
This podcast addresses listener questions about implementing a Charlotte Mason education. How do we teach multiple children at different levels, keep up with all the books being read, teach the subject of recitation, get our children to talk about what they're learning? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "When a child is reading, he should not be teased with questions as t...
Dec 23, 2016•27 min
Charlotte Mason included handicrafts in the curriculum and this podcast will explore the reasons. It is not an optional activity or filler, but what is the purpose? Furthermore, what sorts of things are included in this subject and how can a mother who feels inadequate possibly fulfill this requirement? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Points to be borne in mind in chil...
Dec 16, 2016•29 min
This episode highlights the relevance of a Charlotte Mason education for children who have unique differences as persons in one way or another, needs that affect how they relate to and respond to their education. Is Mason's method possible for children with special needs? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Greatness and littleness belong to character, and life would be du...
Dec 09, 2016•36 min
This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is the conclusion of a two part interview with Richele Baburina on math in the upper forms. Her research and experience, wisdom and love will not only calm your anxieties, but will reveal a glimpse of the wondrous possibilities and beauty awaiting you and your child as you explore the mountainous heights of an awe-inspiring subject, including valuable tips for traversing it with direction and confidence. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make...
Dec 02, 2016•31 min
This Charlotte Mason podcast explores the upper reaches of the hike up the math mountain. If teaching algebra and geometry are daunting to you currently, or for the future, please enjoy the first of this two-part interview with Richele Baburina, a fellow CM researcher and practitioner who has explored the wondrous reaches of mathematics as a living subject in the Mason feast. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: ...
Nov 28, 2016•35 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast addresses math in the elementary years. How much should be covered? How should it be presented? How do we build confidence, competence, and progress? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "The Principality of Mathematics is a mountainous land, but the air is very fine and health-giving, though some people find it too rare for their breathin...
Nov 18, 2016•28 min
How in the world did Charlotte Mason approach the subject of math? This podcast episode explores that question and addresses our qualms and insecurities in teaching math to our children. How do we avoid fears, tears, pushing and pulling, and reach to its infinite beauty as an instrument in acquiring knowledge of the universe? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Arithmetic,...
Nov 15, 2016•30 min
This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is another Q&A. As we implement the method, challenges arise: what adjustments need to be made when I come to the method late, how should I organize my home differently, and what about the only child's needs, are this week's focus. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial rela...
Nov 04, 2016•21 min
Foreign language was a major component in Charlotte Mason's curriculum. This podcast addresses the reasons for foreign language study and how mothers of one tongue can still faithfully include it in their homeschool. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "All educated persons should be able to speak French." (Vol. 1, p. 300) If you would like to study along with us, here are ...
Oct 21, 2016•26 min
What are Charlotte Mason's thoughts on grammar and composition? Listen to this podcast to hear some of her rationale for these subjects, to dispel myths about the Charlotte Mason method and the subject of writing, as well as these moms' experience with teaching these technical and creative written skills. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "[G]rammar, being a study of word...
Oct 19, 2016•41 min
This episode marks the one year anniversary of this Charlotte Mason podcast. Over the past year, we have received dozens of questions from our listeners and this Q&A is exemplary of the requests we receive and our attempt to address widely varying topics, namely this week: where to find out-of-print living books, the relevance of Charlotte Mason today and the practice of "scaffolding" lessons.
Oct 14, 2016•22 min
This podcast explores what Charlotte Mason had to say about the skill of writing. Why do the children need to write? What writing must they do? How can they be taught penmanship, spelling, punctuation, and style? Join us in working through this incremental and crucial school subject. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "I can only offer a few hints on the teaching of writin...
Sep 30, 2016•31 min
This week's podcast illuminates the Charlotte Mason method as it is being practiced in its country of origin: The United Kingdom. Emily interviews, Leah Boden, who discovered Mason and has been implementing her method in her own life and, like us, is working to support and encourage home educators in the knowledge and practice of Charlotte Mason. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox ...
Sep 23, 2016•28 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast focuses on the all-important task of teaching our children to read. No other subject holds such promise and so many anxieties for the teacher who embarks on teaching this fundamental skill. The ladies share their own experiences and what Mason had to say to help us in the reading lesson. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "But, as a matt...
Sep 16, 2016•45 min
This week's podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education--the delectable education--is a question and answer session. Listen to this lively, animated, and slightly controversial discussion of short lessons, nature study, free time, and Bible lessons. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Five of the thirteen waking hours should be at the disposal of the childre...
Sep 09, 2016•30 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast focuses on language. Mason's method was based on a child's nature, and this is most apparent in observing how her method runs along the line of a child's natural acquisition of language skills. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Many persons consider that to learn to read a language so full of anomalies and difficulties as our own is a ...
Sep 02, 2016•25 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast is another Q&A session with Emily, Nicole, and Liz. It is inevitable, as we implement the feast, that questions of presentation and content arise about details not mentioned in the designated episodes on those subjects, and here are some of the latest ones. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Never be within doors when you can rightl...
Aug 01, 2016•21 min
Charlotte Mason knew nature study is critical to the good life and fundamental to education. This week's podcast is the second interview with contemporary naturalist John Muir Laws (Jack) in which he inspires, encourages, and explains to us not only what to do when we go outside, along with many how-to practices we can implement to make the most of that nature study, but how we can change our motivation and focus to experience a rich and rewarding relationship with nature. Listen Now: If you are...
Jul 29, 2016•49 min
This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is an interview with John Muir Laws (Jack), inspiring naturalist and scientist. Join Nicole to hear how expertise and aptitude are not key to making strides in discovering the world of nature and science, but that, as Mason asserts, curiosity and willingness to explore are. If you as mother and teacher, or your child as student, are intimidated by the field of science, this interview will set you free to thoroughly partake of this part of the educational feas...
Jul 22, 2016•36 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast addresses listener questions. Nicole, Emily, and Liz combine their wisdom and experience to address some very frequently asked concerns. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome Rascal, Sterling North Owls in the Family, Farley Mowat My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George (Contains affiliate links) Charlotte Mason and Classical Educati...
Jul 08, 2016•20 min
The Charlotte Mason method applies to many teaching situations beyond traditional classrooms and the homeschool. This week's podcast is an interview recorded at the CMI national conference with Jeannette Tulis of Chattanooga, TN, who has been offered a unique opportunity to open the world of one family's children using the Mason model of education. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefo...
Jun 24, 2016•16 min
In this week's podcast, we discuss why Shakespeare was always included in Charlotte Mason's curriculum. What is the value of Shakespeare as part of the study of literature, and how can we who have little experience with his works enter in and enjoy his feast? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Just as we partake of that banquet which is 'Shakespeare' according to our own ...
Jun 17, 2016•35 min
Poetry was a deep love of Charlotte Mason's, and this week's podcast explores that wonder and delight as it can unfold in your school day and life. Are you nervous, intimidated, worried, or resistant to teaching poetry? Listen to this laid back interview between Liz and our good friend, Bonnie Buckingham, veteran homeschool mom who learned to love poetry by teaching it. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Intern...
Jun 10, 2016•40 min
This week's podcast focuses on Charlotte Mason's ideas for the study of literature. Wait, isn't every subject literature with her use of living books? How does the study of literature fit into her curriculum from the earliest age? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Except in Form I the study of Literature goes pari passu with that of History." (Vol. 6, p. 180) "It is a ni...
Jun 03, 2016•35 min
This podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education focuses on some listener questions, notably, what to do about dawdlers, how to motivate apathetic students, and a couple of particulars about implementing history lessons. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin; and, 'God has made...
May 27, 2016•25 min
This podcast episode's focus describes Charlotte Mason's inclusion of art and music in her essential curriculum. How has our cultural and educational background prejudiced us to favor core subjects over "fine arts" and how did Ms. Mason view these subjects. Further, how are these subjects included and implemented in the week's feast--especially if the mother is unfamiliar or even fearful of tackling this unknown territory? Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are usin...
May 20, 2016•35 min
This Charlotte Mason podcast focuses on time management: how do we get organized to spread this feast of innumerable subjects, how do we fit everything in, and how do we manage multiple children at various levels with differing needs and subjects. Practical tips, resources, ideas, and time-tested wisdom is abundant in this conversation. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome O...
May 13, 2016•39 min
This week's Charlotte Mason podcast celebrates the role of mothers in their children's education. Ms. Mason had plenty to say to us as mothers and we share our own experiences as mothers in an effort to encourage you. This one's for you, Mom. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9 , Firefox , Chrome "The children are, in truth, to be regarded less as personal property than as public trusts, put ...
May 01, 2016•34 min
