It’s been almost a decade since I first tried to wrap my head around the Book of Centuries and blogged through that process here, here and here. Now I have a graduate, a YR11, YR7, and YR3 and am revisiting the topic, hopefully with a little more perspective. What brought it all up again was […]
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Time in nature and nature notebooks have become all the rage over the last decade – far beyond CM circles. Perhaps in response to Charlotte Mason’s influence in our culture, or maybe a repercussion to the effects of industrialization and the unnatural detachment of children from nature. Whatever the case, it is fascinating to be able
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This will be our third annual SoCalCM event, supporting and encouraging Charlotte Mason homeschooling moms in the local area. This time, it will be uniquely outdoors and also available via live streaming for those who prefer to join us from home. Which potentially means people beyond our local area can join us too! The amazing
It’s been a rocky start, but I’ve finally had some time to update this new blog! Blogger, where I blogged for years, has become a relatively (maybe seriously) outdated platform, so it was time to move. I hope to find time to write and share my thoughts on many things here – I have more
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Social media has captured the hearts and minds of mamas, especially when it comes to nature study. Who doesn’t want to have friend groups frolicking in the outdoors with children exploring, learning together while mamas talk and share their days together? It really is a lovely and idealistic image that has trended big time, particularly
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Sisyphus by Titian, 1549 A couple of years ago I heard Dick Keyes speak at a CMI conference I spoke at out here in California. He had two wonderful talks, one on imagination and one on heroes. At the end of one of his talks, he touched on the topic of Christian Tribalism – a
We’ve created a new FB group SocalCM for any “CMers” who live in Southern California. There are many things particular to us – like the Burgess books aren’t talking about our birds! So we created this space to connect and contemplate together about many and sundry such things. Before you hop over to join the
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I came back tonight to take a peek at my sorely neglected blog and I found this old page sitting unpublished with the title “Mind to Mind.” We’re calling it “keeping” and “commonplace” these days (wow that makes me sound old!) but I thought I’d share it with you now. Here’s what Charlotte Mason said
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My 10th grade daughter entered into Gothic reads this year with Jeckyl and Hyde and Frankenstein, followed by The Deadliest Monster which I have on order as I write this. I decided to read the the first two, the former because it is so talked about – Tim Keller references it in his book Reason For
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Did you know that after Charlotte Mason’s death in 1923 there was a tribute written by her students and colleagues? In Memoriam. Brandy at Afterthoughts has just made it available to us all in book form with a beautiful cover by local CM mom/artist/graphic designer, Alissa Clark. She also designed the beautiful new AmblesideOnline logo some
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