Episode 35: Listener Q&A #5

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

Homeschoolpodcast, Charlottemasoneducation, Education, Cmmethod, Studyguide

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education focuses on some listener questions, notably, what to do about dawdlers, how to motivate apathetic students, and a couple of particulars about implementing history lessons.

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"Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin; and, 'God has made us so' that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food." (Vol. 2, p. 39)

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0:00.0	This episode of a Delectable Education is sponsored by Considering Lilies.
0:05.8	Considering Lilies is a Charlotte Mason community in Cary, North Carolina.
0:10.5	For two delightful years they have been discussing Mason's work and building relationships between families through their natural history club and field trips.
0:18.0	They are now working to encourage others to do the same through local one-day retreats and summer park days.
0:25.0	If you are interested in starting your own community,
0:28.0	more information can be found at
0:30.0	CharlotteMason in community.com. The Welcome to a selectable education, the podcast that spreads the
1:07.0	the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here
1:10.4	today with Nicole Williams and Liz Kottrell.
1:13.6	We're here for another listener question and answer session
1:16.8	and let's just jump right in here.
1:19.8	Well, this first question is a little bit complex.
1:22.3	There's several elements here, so we're going to take our time with it. But basically this mom is asking for help. She has a child who struggles in school and hates math in particular.
1:34.8	I think this is a middle age child like maybe between 11 and 13.
1:40.6	Despite her efforts to loosely implement Charlotte Mason, she sees no wonder or curiosity in her children.
1:48.0	Her son either stares blankly at the wall or dawdles or doodles unless he's in the mood and how does she
1:56.6	make him work independently with responsibility.
2:00.9	She reads much herself and to her children, but she just feels she's missing something.
2:08.0	Oh, there's a good one for you, Nicole.
2:11.0	I want to talk about the aspect of loosely implementing Charlotte Mason and we hear this
2:19.2	a lot from parents they're wondering why their children aren't really getting on board, why they aren't seeing
2:24.7	the fruit of this kind of a curriculum, and frequently goes back to this loosely following her
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