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

Sometimes we hear people say, well, I'll do Charlotte Mason with my younger kids, but it's not

rigorous enough for my older ones. Or they won't say it's not rigorous enough, they just

won't use it for their older ones. They think it's only for younger children. We want

to address that question today.

And joining me is Amber O'Neill-Johnston.

Good to have you back, Amber.

Yes, thanks for letting me be here.

Let's talk about this concept of Charlotte Mason

for the younger children but not for the older children.

Yes.

This is something I've gotten feedback on so many times. And as I

inch closer and closer, I have a teenager now and she's been, you know, educated this way from the

beginning. And I get a lot of questions about, oh, you're not going to start, you know, real

school or real lessons with her now that she's in middle school

and becoming a teenager has become a teenager. And I think that there are a lot of myths surrounding

the rigor or the intensity of a Charlotte Mason education. And that's, you know, something that I wish to talk to people about more.

Yes. Now, those of us who have studied Charlotte Mason, it blows our minds what she required

of the older students. Yes. So if you're studying it, you don't have that misconception.

No. I mean, she was asking them, I was just looking over some of the exam questions that they had

for the 12-year-olds.

And it was, you know, draw a map of this particular area and describe it.

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