As home educators trying to spread the wide feast of a Charlotte Mason education for multiple children, we feel the need to have our students working independently. But how do we get them there? Join Liz, Nicole, and Emily as they discuss the rewards and challenges with practical advice for how to help our children grow in independence--in school lessons and beyond.
“As we have already urged, there is but one right way, that is, children must do the work for themselves. They must read the given pages and tell what they have read, they must perform, that is, what we may call the act of knowing." (6/99)
“One of the features, and one of the disastrous features, of modern society, is that, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a vast system of prodding.” (3/39)
"...parents who have always satisfied the intellectual craving of their children must needs forego the delight of watching a literary awakening." (3/123)
“The children must know themselves to be let alone, whether to do their own duty or to seek their own pleasure. The constraining power should be present, but passive, so that the child may not feel himself hemmed in without choice. That free-will of man, which has for ages exercised faithful souls who would prefer to be compelled into all righteousness and obedience, is after all a pattern for parents. The child who is good because he must be so, loses in power of initiative more than he gains in seemly behaviour. Every time a child feels that he chooses to obey of his own accord, his power of initiative is strengthened.” (3/31)
"A parent may be willing to undergo any definite labours for his child's sake; but to be always catering for his behoof, always contriving that circumstances shall play upon him for his good, is the part of a god and not of a man!" (1/10)
"Make children happy and they will be good,' is absolutely true, but does it develop that strenuousness, the first condition of virtue, which comes of the contrary axiom-' Be good and you will be happy'?" (3/57)
"Let her distribute her time as she likes, but count her tale of bricks; let her choose books for her own reading, but know what she chooses; let her choose her own companions, but put before her the principles on which to choose..." (5/245)
The Coddling of the American Mind, Haidt and Lukianoff
Awaken: Living Books Conference
2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference}
Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity
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Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episode 279: Trusting the Method with Sandra Johnson
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum
Episode 277: Trusting the Method with Morgan Conner
Episode 276: ADE Book Club Discussion -- Vanity Fair
Episode 275: Trusting the Method with Jami Hurt
Episode 273: Voices from the Conference: Melissa Petermann on Homeschooling Through Chronic Illness
Episode 272: Charlotte Mason on Children "Liking" Their Books
Episode 271: Trusting the Method with Melanie Verlage
Episode 270: Can We Make Children Care?
Episode 269: Voices from the Conference: Jono Kiser on Dangerous Books
Episode 268: Recitation Tactics
Episode 267: Trusting the Method with Celeste Cruz
Episode 266:The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episode 265: Trusting the Method with Bethany Glosser
Episode 264: The Time-Table
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to "Trust the Method"?
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Episode 261: Season 8 Closing Ceremonies
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