Episode 66: Listener Q&A #13
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A Delectable Education podcast on the Charlotte Mason method answers frequently asked listener questions in this episode: what if my child hates to narrate? where and how do I begin habit training? how do I challenge my gifted child?
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"By "education is a discipline," we mean the discipline of habits, formed definitely and thoughtfully, whether habits of mind or body. Physiologists tell us of the adaptation of brain structures to habitual lines of thought, i.e., to our habits." (Principle #7)
"It is possible to sow a great idea lightly and casually and perhaps this sort of sowing should be rare and casual because if a child detect a definite purpose in his mentor he is apt to stiffen himself against it." (Vol. 6, p. 102)
"Let me add that the appeal of these principles and this method is not to the clever child only but to the average and even to the 'backward' child; indeed we have had several marked successes with backward children. Just as we all partake of that banquet which is 'Shakespeare' according to our needs and desires, so do the children behave at the ample board set before them; there is enough to satisfy the keenest intelligence while the dullest child is sustained through his own willing effort." (Vol. 6, p. 245)
"Lack of proportion should be our bête noire in drawing up a curriculum, remembering that the mathematician who knows little of the history of his own country or that of any other, is sparsely educated at the best." (Vol. 6, p. 232)
Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton(Contains affiliate links)
Nancy Kelly on Habits
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a Delectable Education is sponsored by Golden Hours of Delight retreat. |
| 0:07.0 | Please join us in the foothills of Western North Carolina on March 4th, 2017 for a retreat hosted by Vanessa Kiefski, a homeschool mom who has been able |
| 0:18.6 | to see and feel the fruit of bringing a delectable education's consulting services to life in her home and family. |
| 0:26.0 | Come ready for a day of encouragement and learning, as the three ladies from a delectable education |
| 0:32.0 | bring the delight, fullness, and truth of Charlotte |
| 0:34.7 | Mason's principles to life. |
| 0:37.3 | In volume one of home education, Miss Mason asks, Suppose we have got them, what is to be done with these golden hours so that everyone |
| 0:46.3 | shall be delightful? |
| 0:48.8 | Liz Kittrill, Emily Kaiser, and Nicole Williams will be able to walk us through discovering Miss Mason's |
| 0:54.8 | revelation that the Holy Spirit is the true educator and how living ideas brought |
| 0:59.9 | into each lesson and throughout all of our days will bring joy and fullness of life for each of us and our children. |
| 1:06.0 | Please go to www. Golden Hours of Delight.com for more information and to register. Oh, You're going to be here. Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the |
| 1:49.6 | Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz |
| 1:54.6 | Kottrill and today we are answering another set of questions from our |
| 1:58.5 | listeners. Thank you all for sending in your questions to us and if you ever |
| 2:02.3 | have anything that you'd like to |
| 2:04.6 | hear our thoughts on and addressed in a future question and answer session you can send those to us at |
| 2:10.1 | contact at a Delectable Education or leave them on the episode pages at a |
| 2:14.3 | delectable education dot com or find us on Facebook at Facebook.com slash |
| 2:18.6 | a delectable education. Our first question is a little bit tricky. |
| 2:23.0 | A listener wants to know, what do you do with a child who hates and or refuses to narrate? |
| 2:30.0 | Well, this is a very fundamental principle method they have to narrate in order to know. |
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