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Mother Culture

Books & Reading, Mother's Education, Other Thoughts
Have a Spring Reading Fling!

It was unseasonably cold last week, and it’s dreary and raining today, but I still insist that spring is in the air. After all, the almond bloom is all but finished. That’s a sure sign of spring! Spring is all about freshness and new life and you know what will give new life to your reading? Brand new reading habit trackers! There’s a Mother Culture Habit Tracker (more about that below) and a regular habit tracker for Mom, plus coordinating Continue Reading…
March 15, 2021
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