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Charlotte Mason Boot Camp (Spring 2021 Session)
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Charlotte Mason in One Hour: Workshop Replays
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Flourish: A Charlotte Mason Homeschool Annual Review
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Growing Vibrant Charlotte Mason Communities: 3-Session Training Seminar for Leaders
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2021 Read Alouds

1. Ourselves 2. The Social Skills Guidebook 3. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 4. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew 5. Waverly 6. The Complete Father Brown Stories 7. The Lion and the Saint 8. Summer of Monkeys

2021 Books I’ve Finished

1. How to Think 2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 3. Health for All of Life 4. Skin in the Game

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Finished this in the car while waiting to find out

Finished this in the car while waiting to find out if her wrist is broken.

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Here's the second installment of my #plutarchcomme

The full quote: ⁠⁠ "We labour under the mistak

The full quote:
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"We labour under the mistake of supposing that there is no natural law or inherent principle according to which a child's course of studies should be regulated; so we teach him those things which, according to Locke, it is becoming for a 'gentleman' to know on the one hand, and, on the other, the arts of reading, writing and summing, that he may not grow up an illiterate citizen. In both cases the education we offer is too utilitarian, an indirect training for the professions or for a craftsman's calling with efforts in the latter case to make a boy's education bear directly on his future work.⁠⁠
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"But what if in the very nature of things we find a complete curriculum suggested? (Vol. 6, p. 156)⁠⁠
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Again and again, Charlotte Mason comes back to the idea that there are natural laws which govern education in the same way that there are natural laws that govern the movements of planets in the heavens. There are a couple things to think about in regard to this (well, more than that, but I'll stick with two):⁠⁠
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1. In everything we do in teaching, we are either working WITH nature or against it. Example: building an airplane that flies is working WITH it. Jumping off a building and hoping I can fly? That works against it (especially the hard stop at the end). When we are frustrated and feel like things aren't working, there could be any number of things going wrong, but one of our first steps can be to discern whether we are flying and just hitting some turbulence, or whether we inadvertently jumped off a building while thinking we could fly.⁠⁠
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2. Learning these natural laws by heart is one of the most important things we can do for the children around us.⁠⁠
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That's basically what Charlotte Mason Boot Camp is all about: we want to learn the natural laws and discern whether we're working with them ... or against them. It takes time, but the six week investment is so worth it. It can change our homeschools forever.⁠⁠
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Tomorrow is the last day to register, so make sure you get in before the doors close. I'd love to have you in Camp, spending deliberate time applying #charlottemason principles to your very own homeschool. 💗

Rest in peace, Rush Limbaugh.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ::: Thi

Rest in peace, Rush Limbaugh.⁠⁠
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::: This is not a political post. :::⁠⁠
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I am not the sort to write tributes to famous persons, but I'm making an exception because of what Rush Limbaugh meant to me. Some of you are, I think, too young to remember what radio was like before Rush. In a word, it was BORING. It was the audio equivalent of cat videos: entertaining and sweet but not really teeming with mental fodder.⁠⁠
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Rush Limbaugh changed radio forever.⁠⁠
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He also changed ME. When I was a freshman in college, the worst thing that could happen to a vocal performance major happened to me: I lost my voice. I won't go into details other than to mention that the Lyme Disease that had ravaged me for years (I was already legally blind by this point) was taking that, too.⁠⁠
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I had to ask myself what I wanted to do since I couldn't sing. How do you replace something so important to you?⁠⁠
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And then it came to me: RADIO. I had always loved it, and our university offered radio in the media department.⁠⁠
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About six months later, my voice was restored enough that I had an on-campus radio show. It was nothing to speak of, but it's interesting to look back on that, now that I'm a podcast host. Plenty of people get into podcasting with zero radio background, but, for me, my interest was directly tied to the fact that podcasting fit in so nicely with my training and what I had imagined myself doing (before I had kids and forgot about it for a while).⁠⁠
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It wasn't that I wanted to *be* like him, but rather that he inspired me in so many ways, especially in his emphasis on excellence. He awakened in me a passion to do jobs well, and an admiration for those who excel. He emphasized perseverance and not letting the disadvantages stop you. THAT was what a very sick child needed to hear.⁠⁠
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And he lived it later when he lost his hearing (and again with his cancer). Imagine losing your hearing when your job depends so much upon that ability. He showed us how it's done when he found a solution and was back on the air in no time. I'm sure he was discouraged, but he didn't let it stop him.⁠⁠
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I will never forget you, Rush. May you rejoice in the presence of your Maker.

I bought this a little over a year ago, right befo

I bought this a little over a year ago, right before our state was locked down. I kept reading it for the first "fourteen days to slow the spread" but eventually I stopped. Why would I keep reading this when there was no chance to apply the ideas? I didn't want to waste this opportunity because I felt the book was a good one.⁠
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So I dropped the book, knowing we'd return to it when it made sense.⁠
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327 days later, we are still on lockdown, with no real end in sight. Thankfully, we live in a community that is mostly ignoring the orders (especially now that so many of us have had it), which means it was a good time to pick the book back up. I'm glad I waited. Nothing makes your social skills rusty like prolonged isolation coupled with so many people wearing masks! (Do you know how many social skills are based upon the ability to read someone's face?)⁠
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I've had people ask me how I handle "teen issues." I guess they ask because I have so many teens? I have never claimed to be an expert, unless expert means "come August, I will have four teenage children." 😱⁠
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I don't have a magic book. Instead, I've approached this like I do lots of things: I buy a whole library shelf of books over time. When the children were little, I would notice problems and issues and buy a book (for me) that addressed them. I guess the difference in the teen years is I buy a book and read it aloud during our morning #circletime (yes, I still call it that ... old habits die hard and all).⁠
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So when certain children complained to me about feeling awkward in certain situations, or not knowing how to start a conversation, I starting hunting around. I settled on this book because there is a section on dealing with social anxiety if you are on the spectrum, which I think takes extra consideration. (And really, doesn't every family have someone on the spectrum these days? Even if it's not our own kids, this will help them deal with loved ones in their community in an understanding way.)⁠
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Final thought: The book is a bit too psycho-babble for my taste, but we just talk about it on occasion, putting it into words that sound less like mental illness and more what is common to man.⁠

I've started a new series on Afterthoughts. I inte

In one of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles of Educa

"The things by which every man advances in knowled

"The things by which every man advances in knowledge are principally two — namely, reading and meditation." (Hugh of St. Victor, The Didascalicon)⁠⠀
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This is the quote featured in today's Afterthoughts Weekly Digest. Don't you just love it? ❤️⁠⠀
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It reminds me of another quote, this one from #charlottemason :⁠⠀
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"People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think; and the business of schools is to see that all their scholars shall belong to the former class; it is worth while to remember that thinking is inseparable from reading which is concerned with the content of a passage and not merely with the printed matter." (Philosophy of Education, p. 31)⁠⠀
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