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Mother Culture

Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The 2022 Afterthoughts Book Awards

Let me begin with a confession: This was my worst reading year in over a decade. I ended up working on very time-consuming projects that wore away at me. I only had the mental energy left for easy reading most days during that time. Couple that with a carpet installation disaster that happened this summer — my library was supposed to be boxed up for a week or two, but ended up being boxed up for two months — and Continue Reading…
January 5, 2022
Home Education
The 2022 Live 20 Principles Study Starts Now!

When Charlotte Mason evaluated the student teachers at her training college, a big thing she looked for was whether or not they were using the principles she had taught them. Did they work from a place of understanding? If not, it didn’t matter if what they had done with their classes was “right” or “wrong” — it was devoid of wisdom. Miss Mason was looking for teachers who walked in wisdom with their students. Charlotte Mason originally boiled her own Continue Reading…
December 30, 2021
Home Education
Time for a Charlotte Mason Deep Dive

Charlotte Mason’s 16th Principle says this: There are two guides to moral and intellectual self-management to offer to children, which we may call ‘the way of the will’ and ‘the way of the reason.’ If education was only about subject matter, Miss Mason’s principles would have stopped at 15. She goes on to 20 because knowing history, science, and math isn’t the whole story. To Charlotte Mason, education was about character. We can’t just waltz into a room and form Continue Reading…
September 15, 2021
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Summer 2021 Mother Culture Reading List! (Plus Summer Reading Habit Trackers!)

Time for the second summer reading list! The more intense 2021 Mothers’ Education Course list is here. Today’s list is for the Regular People, the people who want to continue to read, but aren’t going to do 100-pages-per-week goal of an MEC plan. 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, Continue Reading…
June 3, 2021