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Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Summer 2024 Mother Culture Reading List (Plus Summer Reading Habit Trackers!!)

This is one of those “better late than never” situations. I have written two annual posts to kick off summer for many years, and they’re usually published by the end of May. May found us traveling to Tennessee twice! Once for our son’s college graduation, and once for his WEDDING. (Yes, I have become that dreaded thing: a mother-in-law. 😉 ) So I knew this would be delayed, but it was extra, extra delayed when we were in a car Continue Reading…
June 21, 2024
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Fall 2023 Mother Culture Reading List (Plus Fall Reading Habit Trackers!!)

I don’t know about you, but I always have to figure out how to fit in my reading this time of year. It’s not that I can’t do it — it’s just that I can’t do it the way I’ve been doing it when there were no school lessons and very little football practice. This time of year isn’t actually busier, but it’s different, and I have to strategize with my calendar to make things work. A habit tracker helps Continue Reading…
September 20, 2023
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Summer 2023 Mother Culture Reading List (Plus Summer Reading Habit Trackers!!)

If you aren’t familiar with the term “mother culture,” I’m actually referring to an article that appeared in Charlotte Mason’s Parents’ Review Magazine way back in 1892. The Mother Culture article does a couple important things. First, it reminds us that books are a way to wisdom — that a solid reading life is imperative if Mom is going to gain the maturity she needs to be a good mom to her older children. Second, it gives us a way — a simple habit-based approach — to Continue Reading…
June 2, 2023
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Summer 2022 Mother Culture Reading List! (Plus Summer Reading Habit Trackers!)

Time for the second summer reading list! The more intense 2022 Mothers’ Education Course list is here. Today’s list is for the Regular People, the people who want to continue to read, but aren’t going to do the 100-pages-per-week goal of an MEC plan. As I mentioned in the MEC list post, I combine these two concepts by keeping a pile of books that fall into MEC categories, but reading them in a Mother Culture style, picking up the book Continue Reading…
May 31, 2022