You may have already heard the story, but in case you haven’t, a young woman in 1906 applied to Charlotte Mason’s training college and is quoted in The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley as saying: On my arrival at Ambleside I was interviewed by Miss Mason who asked me for what purpose I […]
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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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In Part 1 we looked at discipline (discipling) as a chief function of parenting.In Part 2 we looked at mechanical obedience and habits in the early years.In Part 3 we looked at how authority behaves. Next we’ll look at the nature of the child as we transition from the more “mechanical” end of obedience in the younger years to
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Registration for the upcoming AmblesideOnline Conference May 19-21, 2016 at Lakeview Camp and Retreat Center in Waxahachie, Texas is now open! Register by May 10th for the Early Bird discount. Deep in the Heart of AO is a uniquely AmblesideOnline event focusing specifically on Charlotte Mason’s ideas and methods and implementing them successfully with the AO curriculum.
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Save the Date! Deep in the Heart of AO, AmblesideOnline‘s 2016 Conference, will be at the Lakeview Camp and Retreat Center in Waxahatchie, TX from Thursday, May 19 through Saturday, May 21.
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This is my messy morning schedule I scribbled out while I was at the beach Thursday. Cindy Rollins’ talk at the AO At Home Conference in Indiana this summer about her precious moments with the kids in the mornings re-inspired me to look at my scheduling again. We’re starting school Wednesday this week and spreading
Did you know? AmblesideOnline is having a conference next month, July 24-25 in Remington, IN! Someone once said wisdom comes from two places – our mistakes, and the mistakes of others. Wouldn’t it be nice to save years of making our own mistakes by learning from others who have walked further down this path who
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Smart Sept. 2, 2014 My dad gave me one dollar bill ’cause I’m his smartest son,and I swapped it for two shiny quarters ’cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters and traded them to Loufor three dimes – I guess she don’t know, three’s more then two! Ivanhoe Sept. 16,
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The Voyage of Life – Youth by Thomas Cole, 1842 As we head past the transition between my reading most of the books to my oldest daughter and her reading her own school books – which happened progressively during YR4 & YR5 – I found myself a little sad at the prospect of her reading her
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Churchill’s marriage to Clementine, the changing view of a man’s marriage as relevant to his quality of character and ability to lead, and 1 Timothy 3 all came up on our couch today, turning our wheels of thought as she knit her leg warmers and the laundry remained piled high. AO YR6
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