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Mother’s Education Course: Summer 2020

I posted the Mother Culture Reading List last week. That list is meant for a more casual sort of reading. Yes, it’s organized and, yes, it’s structured by habit — but at the end of the day there is something more ordinary about it. The Mother’s Education Course list (the list below) is meant for you more serious readers. To try and undertake anything like the MEC, even for a summer, requires more discipline than habit because it’s meant for Continue Reading…
June 8, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Summer 2020 Mother Culture Reading List! (Plus a Summer Reading Habit Tracker!)

Every year at this time, I put out a couple reading lists. This year, I’m doing the Mother Culture Reading List first. 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 Continue Reading…
June 1, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine, Installment Two

Installment One is here. I noticed that some of my recommendations started falling off of my Facebook page (or wall or whatever it’s called), so I decided to preserve them here sooner rather than later. Before I do that, though, I thought I’d review something I talked about in my newsletter a couple weeks ago: stability. There are a number of times Charlotte Mason implies that wide reading gives us stability. In In Memoriam, for example, she is quoted: The Continue Reading…
May 4, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine (7 Book Recommendations)

On my personal Facebook page (not the Afterthoughts page, but rather the page where I’m just with people I know in real life), I started recommending books. It’s an old hobby I decided to ramp up after seeing friends ask each other what to read next. My goal was to use a different category every day of the week. It’s not that I would never repeat a category, but my goal was to never repeat a category within a single Continue Reading…
April 22, 2020