We have reached the end of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles. What a beautiful journey this has been. In this special episode, we have a special musical number as well as a discussion about how we ask for God's help in our education and basically...

Charlotte Mason's 18th and 19th principles state "18: The way of reason: We teach children, too, not to 'lean (too confidently) to their own understanding'; because the function of reason is to give logical demonstration (a) of mathema...

Can all of Charlotte Mason's principles be the most  life-changing? Must I pick one? Then I pick this one. Learning how to strengthen our own will and then teaching our children how to strengthen their own wills can give us all a wonderful...

Charlotte Mason's 14th and 15th principles talk about why narration is important and how often we should repeat reading in lessons. (hint: it's never) In this episode, I talk about how narration really makes things stick in our minds and how tr...

Charlotte Mason's 13th principle begins to explain what the curriculum should be for children. She starts with three points: The children should have much knowledge, a variety of knowledge, and the information should be presented throu...

Charlotte Mason’s 12th principle is, “Education is the Science of Relations”; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and ...

Charlotte Mason's principles 8 through 11 all talk about Education being a Life for our children. In this episode, we explain what this means and give some examples of how it looks to have a true living education.

Last episode, we learned about how we might misuse our authority over our children. In this episode, we get to start talking about the respectful and effective tools we can use to teach our children. Charlotte Mason broke it down into three too...

Charlotte Mason's fourth principle adds onto the third. Yes, we have been given authority over our children, but we are not to misuse this authority. We are to act in kindness and respect the personhood of our children.  

Obedience can be an uncomfortable word for some people. I know it used to be a hard one for me. I wasn't sure if I should expect obedience from my children because I was unsure of my role as a mother. Charlotte Mason stated how we all need to b...

Charlotte Mason's second principle is: Children are not born either good or bad, but with possibilities for good and evil. God has given our children the gift of choice and sometimes, they choose the right and sometimes, they don't. As parents,...

Charlotte Mason's first principle is: children are born persons. They are entrusted to us to protect and teach and lead in a manner that pleases their Heavenly Father. They deserve respect and individual attention and education because their so...

With so much information available on the internet, it can be confusing to know what we're actually getting into with a Charlotte Mason education. I have read her volumes and hope to clarify in this episode how she actually intended for childre...

Charlotte Mason compared ideas to the mind as food is to the body. Our minds feed on ideas. She said, "Give your child a single valuable idea and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of i...

There is a certain aesthetic in Charlotte Mason homeschools these days. You've probably seen it. The girls only wear linen dresses, the children only have beautiful wooden toys, and everyone is always perfect and happy. Well, maybe we need a li...

In this episode, I tell some stories of people (fact and fiction) who have inspired me. Charlotte Mason said, "Mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders are demanded of them." Our children come to us with their own personalities...

One of the main aspects of a Charlotte Mason education is the wide variety of subjects that the students learn. From art and hymn study all the way to citizenship and handicrafts, Miss Mason has a good argument for learning a huge variety of su...

Learning to read is hard work and takes years to master. Charlotte Mason describes the specific way to do reading lessons in her book Home Education on pages 199-222. In this episode, I explain the atmosphere behind th...

ADHD wasn't diagnosed very much until the mid 1900s. Charlotte Mason was at the end of her life around that time, so it is very likely she never heard of ADHD. But we all know that the habit of attention is dwindling in many children as well as...

Charlotte Mason said that education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life. In this episode, I explain what she meant by the atmosphere of education and what that can look like in a home.

Charlotte Mason never intended for the teacher or the mother-teacher to be the source of all knowledge. She said, "The characters in the books we know become our mentors or our warnings, our instructors always; but not if we let our minds behav...

When we talk about “the real world” we mean reality–things that are not fictional. People are often concerned that education does not prepare students for The Real World. Is a Charlotte Mason education better or worse at preparing scholars f...

Rewards are a natural part of God's plan for us. But if we use rewards in the wrong way, it can do a lot more harm than good. In this episode, I shine the light on some hard truths about our reward system and give some ideas on how we can mo...

How do we nurture goodness in our children in this fallen world? Surrounded by less than ideal influences in certain books, music, movies, videos, experiences, and peers, is there a special formula to help us navigate this world and cultivat...

Researchers have found that when we read literary fiction, our brains actually simulate what the characters in the books are feeling. Our brain literally rewires itself to emulate that character. Charlotte Mason told us, "The characters in the ...