One day, elbow-deep in soapy water at the kitchen sink while doing some pre-dinner cleanup, I felt a light tap on the top of my head. Was that water dripping from the can light over my kitchen sink?! This can’t be good….
That’s it? That’s all you have to do? Said my friend, who was in her second year of homeschooling. (She started her first year using a textbook curriculum. And they hated it.) She couldn’t believe how simple my suggestion was. How…
Teaching composition the “Charlotte Mason way” is not formally teaching it at all. Rather, it is relying upon her methods, including the reading of great literature, then having students provide various types of narrations and dictation. The reference from Volume…
The more I have experienced the Charlotte Mason philosophy of homeschooling, the more I believe in it. I am discouraged talking with public and private school teachers when they invariably reply, “No, I am not,” when I ask if they…
