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Aquinas’ Big Picture of Education: Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition
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Be Brave: Laughing at the Days to Come
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Masterly Inactivity: Charlotte Mason Secrets to Successfully Leading Your Homeschool (with Quote Slides!)
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Memorization and the Soul
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Remembering: The Secret Power of a Charlotte Mason Education
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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Cultivating Your Child’s Affinities
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2023 READ ALOUDS

Ourselves
Byzantium
To the Far Blue Mountains
The Impossible First
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Hi. 👋⁠ ⁠ I generally dislike introductions,

Hi. 👋⁠
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I generally dislike introductions, but there are so many new people around here that it felt obligatory.⁠ 😂
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My name is Brandy Vencel, but you knew that already. I have been homeschooling my children in a classical, Charlotte Mason way since they were tiny. (They are no longer tiny!) My first born did "kindergarten" at home (in 2007) because I didn't know we didn't have to do it. 🤪 I apologize to him regularly that he had to be my guinea pig. He is now 21 and I am very proud of him for not allowing himself to be permanently damaged by his mother. 🙌⁠
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I have three children still at home and they are all teenagers so nothing really scares me anymore.⁠ 💯
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I don't post many specifics about my family — nor do I post photos of my husband or children. I try to give them modern culture's greatest luxury: a private life.⁠
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I am trilingual — I speak both Memes and Song Lyrics fluently. Check out my stories for evidence. 😉⁠
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I mostly keep my politics in my stories so if you hate politics, please don't look at them. 😬 Some people find it very disturbing that I am not posting stories with teapots and nature things. I try to be an upstanding #charlottemason person, but it's hard. 🤷‍♀️ I identify more with the fact that CM read and loved Punch (a weekly satire magazine) than that she took a country drive. (I'm convinced she would've thoroughly enjoyed The Babylon Bee.)⁠
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In addition to hosting the @scholesisters podcast, writing my almost-weekly newsletter, mostly ignoring my blog, and coaching Charlotte Mason Boot Camp, I am an underperforming member of the @amblesideonline Auxiliary Board. I used to be a respectable member, but then, during shutdown, my friends and I got bored and decided to found a real life brick and mortar Christian classical school in our city. Turns out, it was a good idea, albeit super time consuming.⁠
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So welcome to my account. I'm glad you're here. 😊⁠
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Photo credit: Molly @themodernhomeschooler⁠
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Someone sent this to me and asked for a response.

Someone sent this to me and asked for a response. I figured it needed music and also a meme. 🤣

I figured it was an opportunity to educate the internets.

Also, we can have a difference of opinion; I think we all agree homeschooling is 10,000x better than public school, regardless of what philosophy you're following.

For the record: when people ask me my opinion on CC, the answer I always give is that I don't know enough to have one. I have never looked at the curriculum, and I only know what I've heard — it's never safe to form an opinion on what you've heard. So please don't ask me to do my own comparison! 😊

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As promised, my 9th annual #motherculture summer r

My 8th annual Mothers' Education Course book list

Today’s mic drop brought to you by #charlottemas

Today’s mic drop brought to you by #charlottemason in Ourselves.

This is the danger of the uninstructed conscience: an inability to discriminate. Taking pride in such ignorance is just the whipped cream on top of the foolishness cake.

If you want to know how to remediate this situation, read Book 2 of Ourselves.

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What we do — the reading of many, many books (so

What we do — the reading of many, many books (some of them quite old), narrating, reproducing, observing, and so on — can seem so different to people unfamiliar with it that it sounds new to them. They doubt you automatically. Taking a bold risk with those children of yours, aren't you?

I mean, if you don't ask your seven-year-old to write a bad essay concerning his summer vacation, are you even educating? 😂

#charlottemason once wrote:

"It is exciting to become a pioneer; but, for the children's sake, it may be well to **constrain ourselves to follow those roads only by which we know that persons have arrived,** or those newer roads which offer evident and assured means of progress towards a desired end. Self-will is not permitted to the educationalist; and he may not take up fads."

You know what's risky? Chasing the latest popular thing. Listening to culture's siren song. (You do know what sirens do, yes?)

You know what's not risky? Looking at your goal, looking back into the past to see what roads once consistently led people to said goal, and then travelling that exact same road.

It's dangerous to make stuff up or follow whatever is the Latest Thing because, as much as we like to joke about it, children aren't guinea pigs. They deserve better than that. They deserve something that has already proven itself.

Books, narration, thinking, reproducing, observing? Latin? The progymnasmata? They have proven themselves lo these thousand years. It feels different because it IS different from the culture around you, but as Krista Bontrager from @centerforbiblicalunity said in a different context earlier this week, "You are going to have to be more courageous than your culture."

This type of courage isn't rashness. Imitating the great things of the past isn't dangerous. These roads have already proven themselves.

The roads are safe.

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