At the 2016 CMI conference, a mother approached me to share her reaction to my lecture the preceding year. I was awed and humbled, once again, to realize the tremendous impact that story has on our lives as persons—my story on her, and stories in general on her family. I asked her if she would… Read More Vision for Children—Or Parents?
I am pleased to announce that Home Education, Volume 1 of Charlotte Mason’s Home Education series is now complete on Audio! I will leave the individual installments up until June 30th for those of you who have purchased the book incrementally as it’s become available. After that date, Home Education will only be available to… Read More Volume 1 of Charlotte Mason’s series is Complete!
Anyone who has listened to our podcast knows that I, Emily, am an unabashed Charlotte-Mason-geek. So much so that I have hi-jacked mom’s usual blog post schedule to insert one of my “new” finds. I’ve been looking more deeply into how exactly Charlotte Mason suggested the Bible be studied as a school subject. Since the Bible… Read More An Addition to our Library
I have heard Pollyanna mocked often enough in my life that I became scornful of her myself. This scornfulness was unjust, being based on lack of knowledge. Of course, I vaguely remember the movie on TV, dim childhood recollections of a girl climbing out of her room into a tree, being spunky. After reading Pollyanna… Read More Are You Glad?
So many of our earliest childhood memories involve Christmas time. Every element of the holiday enchants them, the focus of attention on a child in a manger delights them. I remember enacting the Bethlehem story in Sunday school pageants, donning the cardboard angel wings and trying to sing like an angel. The atmosphere was almost… Read More When Children Sing Gloria
Mothering is an enormously demanding job with innumerable challenges. It is the work that is critical to the way the world goes and the Gospel is spread. Do you get overwhelmed, discouraged, think this mothering and teaching work is difficult–even impossible? Liz recently spoke at the opening session of the Grace to Build Retreat in… Read More New Audio Download Available!
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Emily and I love talking about great ideas, and inevitably, those ideas become new adventures. Saying that one thing leads to another is a huge understatement, but here we go again with the next one. When we opened the library, we desired to share great books with other homeschoolers and doing that led to realizing that we needed… Read More An Invitation to Join the Conversation
For most of us, Labor Day, a holiday for workers, marks a shift from summer’s leisurely pace back to the routine of the school year. Though we love the fun and freedom of summer, somewhere deep inside, we also relish getting back to work. Work is a gift. After all, if we were always at play, the world… Read More Work and Play
(The closing remarks from the CMI International Conference, June 20, 2015) Is this her reason for warning us against getting between the child and the book? We can hinder. Our task is to sow and to keep weeds from preventing growth, removing rocks and roots to give implanted ideas a fighting chance. Here is our God-given duty. Moral… Read More Vision for Children, Final Installment