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Habit

Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Spring Reading Trackers are Here!

It’s that time again! March is just around the calendar corner and we are armed and ready with brand new spring Mother Culture Habit Tracker and a whole collection of coordinating reading trackers for your students, plus blank habit trackers so you can track a lot more than your reading. Here’s a sampling: Get Your Mother Culture Habit Tracker Now! What are we tracking? Many of you know the drill, but it bears repeating. What exactly are we tracking with Continue Reading…
February 25, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Twin Duties of a Charlotte Mason Teacher

It can be hard to self-evaluate. When we are trying to lead our homeschools in a Charlotte Mason way, we can fall short of the goal in a variety of ways. The two most common are opposite extremes. On the one hand, we can pat ourselves on the back and tell ourselves it’s meant to be “gentle,” all the while using this to justify our own laziness. On the other hand, we can execute the supposedly perfect curriculum in the Continue Reading…
January 27, 2020
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Charlotte Mason’s Six Types of Lies … and Their Cures

My local Charlotte Mason book club is currently reading through Parents and Children. (This is the study guide I’m working on — it should be out in Fall of 2020, I think.) I’ve read it a couple times before, but it’s been a while, and my children are so much older than last time that I feel like I’m reading it for the first time all over again. Last week, we discussed (among other things) Charlotte Mason’s thoughts on lying. Continue Reading…
December 9, 2019
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Swedish Drill as Habit Training

The summer solstice is behind us and a peek on Instagram tells me that many of you are enjoying your summer break. While this will certainly involve plenty of time relaxing by the pool reading good books, I have noticed that several families utilize the summer months to emphasize habit training that often falls to the wayside during the school year. Have you considered the possibility that Swedish Drill can be a habit training tool? As you know, Swedish Drill Continue Reading…
June 26, 2018