As a Charlotte Mason homeschooler, you are probably very picky about the books that you share

with your children, as you should be.

But what do you do when your kids are starting to make that transition to choosing their

own books?

How can we shepherd them well in that season of life?

Let's talk about that today.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is my friend Amber O'Neill Johnston.

Amber, let's talk a little bit about

when our children are making the transition to choosing their own books.

We talked a lot about pre-reading and the importance of that.

Yes.

But we also recognize there comes a time when it's physically impossible to keep up.

You've got four kids.

That's right.

All of them are avid readers, I'm assuming.

I had four, and they're all avid readers.

And it just becomes physically impossible to keep up.

It does.

And in our home, I became a literal bottleneck because I was used to pre-reading every single book that they ever read.

And literally I had a pile on my nightstand and children waiting for me to hurry up and finish those so that I could pass them off.

And these were books they wanted and they were complaining about it.

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