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... for the Classical, Charlotte Mason Mama

About Christy Hissong

Christy has been a Charlotte Mason educator for many years and especially enjoys teaching Plutarch in her local CM co-op and leading a nature study group. A student of classic literature, Christy loves discussing ideas and is passionate about her local CM study group where she has been blessed to grow along with an amazing cadre of like-minded souls. The wife of a well-read man and the home educating mama of one barefoot boy, Christy blogs about the joy and inspiration of Nature Study at Every New Leaf.

School is War: Scheduling for Peace Revisited

By Christy Hissong 13 Comments

n the summer of 2013 I wrote a guest post for this blog in which I shared an experiment my family had undertaken the previous school year: I took Nancy Kelly's admonition to "Keep Cutting Back Until there is Peace in Your Home" to heart and attempted to conform our school day schedule as closely as possible to those used in Charlotte Mason's classrooms. My blog post generated a lot of questions:But what about all the lovely living books we might miss? What if we have gaps in our history Continue Reading

Book Discussion 101

By Christy Hissong 1 Comment

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! – Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge efore Oprah, even before Mortimer Adler, there were books and people who read and discussed them together. There are neighborhood book clubs, literary societies, library discussion groups and study groups -- all formed for different reasons and with varied goals, and there are as many ways to lead book discussions as there are venues, groups and leaders themselves! Yet there are Continue Reading

Myth: Charlotte Mason is child-led.

By Christy Hissong Leave a Comment

ype "child-led education" into your online search engine and what do you see? Page after page of articles, blogs, reference works all touting the benefits of allowing a child to determine the direction and intensity of their own education based on their individual interests. And at first glance, it may appear that some of the basic tenets of Charlotte Mason's philosophy tend in this direction as well. Isn't her very first principle "Children are born persons" and didn't she say, "there is no Continue Reading

Secrets from Charlotte Mason on Scheduling for Peace

By Christy Hissong 67 Comments

his time last year my then-10-year-old son was finishing Year 4 of AmblesideOnline’s {AO} stellar curriculum and we were both, quite frankly, fried. Our days began early. We enjoyed a morning time together in which we read from the Psalter, sang our hymn and folksong, read poetry aloud and recited Scripture. So far, so good. Our minds and hearts were full of truth, beauty and goodness. What a great way to start the day!We had breakfast, did chores, and then plunged into the day’s assigned Continue Reading

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