The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also provide a great number of helpful episodes and resources as you plan for the upcoming school year. The episode closes with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead.
“Every mother, especially, should keep a diary in which to note the successive phases of her child’s physical, mental, and moral growth, with particular attention to the moral.” (2/105-106)
Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections
Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following)
Episode 232: Forecasting Lessons -- How to plan
Forecasting Teacher Training Video
Form Overviews:
Episode 162: Creating Your Own CM Curriculum
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Your Curriculum
Episode 33: Scheduling a CM Education
Awaken: Living Books Conference July 26-27, 2024
There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.
"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)
"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)
"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?
Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum
Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books
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