Episode 25: Listener Q & A #3
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This podcast addresses common questions that arise as parents and teachers pursue knowledge of the Charlotte Mason method. Whether specific small questions, or large philosophic ones, they are common to most of us and Nicole, Emily and Liz attempt to draw from the deep well of Mason's own writings, as well as their experience in applying that wisdom, to meet the most frequent perplexities head on.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kottrill and Nicole Williams. |
| 0:39.6 | We have just spent the last several weeks discussing science and nature studying the Charlotte |
| 0:44.6 | Mason method and now we're going to turn to another question-answer session. |
| 0:50.3 | We've been getting in a lot of questions from our listeners, which is great. |
| 0:53.3 | Keep them coming and we'll address yours on a future podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | So let's just dive into this first question. |
| 1:01.6 | We got this several weeks ago. It said, hi ladies, I need help with |
| 1:06.6 | knowing how to help my son, fifth grade, transition from twaddle books. This is our |
| 1:11.7 | first year of homeschool coming from public school so you can |
| 1:14.8 | imagine the book reading is quite different from Charlotte Mason method of using living books. |
| 1:19.8 | I tried having him read classic books but he is having challenges enjoying them. |
| 1:24.5 | I've done reviews on the books before I give them to him to read, but he's just not into it. |
| 1:28.9 | He's used to books like The Diary of O'Wimpie Kit, Big Nate, etc. The classic book he's currently reading. The had him read the physical book along with an audio to see if that would help but it's not. |
| 1:45.6 | He's read until chapter six and that was it. I had to literally make him read the last two chapters. |
| 1:52.0 | This is not how I want my son to learn to enjoy reading. I really need some |
| 1:55.6 | options with how to help him learn to enjoy classic books and transition from Twattle books. |
| 2:02.3 | Well, let me just... |
| 2:04.0 | First of all, I just want to say good job for taking him out of that environment and trying to offer him something better. And the second thing I would say is you |
| 2:15.0 | need to relax. Taste in literature is an acquired thing, just like taste in food. And you know |
| 2:22.0 | how some children in a high chair will eat anything |
| 2:24.2 | on a spoon and other children shake their head and keep their lips sealed and sometimes |
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