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Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Mother's Education
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: Plutarch

I didn’t need much convincing to implement most of Charlotte Mason’s educational ideas but I did think that including the study of Plutarch was rather random. Who was this guy anyhow? And as one of my sons remarked, ‘Why do I have to do Plutarch when I’m not studying that time period?’ Plutarch was a Greek historian who lived c. AD 46-120 and is mostly known for writing Parallel Lives (also known as Plutarch’s Lives), a series of biographies of Continue Reading…
October 17, 2013
Home Education
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: What Lessons Look Like by Jen Snow

A big thank you to Jen Snow for writing, not one, but two posts for this series, of which this is the first. Jen Snow is a missionary wife, homeschooling mom to three children ages 8, 5, and 3, and former classroom teacher. In her spare time (when she’s not plowing through her too-tall stack of books to be read with a cup of coffee and a piece of dark chocolate in hand!), she serves as a homeschooling consultant to other missionary Continue Reading…
October 22, 2013
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: Christians, Charlotte Mason, and Fairy Tales by Wendi Capehart (Day 13)

This post is reprinted with permission from Wendi Capehart and AmblesideOnline. A big thanks to Wendi for contributing this to the 31 Days of Charlotte Mason Series! Wendi Capehart serves on the Advisory Board for AmblesideOnline. She is the mother of seven children, grandmother of 5 (possibly 6 by the time this goes live), unofficial sometime foster mama to two, and the wife of one longsuffering man. She began homeschooling the year her oldest began first grade, in 1988. She read For Continue Reading…
October 13, 2013
Best of Afterthoughts, Educational Philosophy
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: Introduction (Day 1)

For at least three years now I’ve considered doing a 31 Days of Charlotte Mason series. I haven’t done it because I’ve had a fear of commitment. I almost chickened out again this year because my version of planning was to make a cute graphic back in April. Yes. That was all. I redesigned the graphic yesterday when I realized I didn’t like it with my new color scheme. Ahem. So this post is serving as the introductory post. It’ll function Continue Reading…
October 1, 2013