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Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Mother's Education
Remembering: The Secret Power of a Charlotte Mason Education

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]’ve been thinking and speaking on this subject for about 18 months now, and honestly, it’s one of my favorite topics. In June, I recorded this presentation at a conference in June, and today I’m finally making it available to all of you lovely Afterthinkers. ♥ It’s funny. When I sat down to write this talk, I expected to end up with something about the moral imagination. But no matter what I did, I couldn’t get away from the magical mystery of Continue Reading…
October 25, 2017
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Start Here: Charlotte Mason in One Hour!

[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ost of you are familiar with my study guide, Start Here: A Journey Through Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles, which was published almost exactly a year ago. The guide is a tried, tested, edited, and refined version of a study I originally wrote for my own local Charlotte Mason study group. I don’t know why it never dawned on me to give a conference talk to go along with it, but it didn’t. It wasn’t until Kathy Wickward asked me to give a Continue Reading…
November 11, 2015
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Cultivating Your Child’s Affinities

This — What’s Love Got to Do with It? Cultivating Your Child’s Affinities — is the name of the first talk I gave at the Northwest Charlotte Mason Educators Conference this past weekend. It’s also the talk I wanted to give this year. It’s seems that once per year, I find there is something on my heart that I want to say — out loud. It isn’t that my other talks aren’t as dear to my heart — they are (and actually my Continue Reading…
September 30, 2015