Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Are things seeming to go a little bit

slower than you would prefer with your schoolwork, with habit training, with managing your day?

Well, here to talk about that is Laura Pitney. Laura, have you ever felt like things just weren't progressing as fast as you wanted?

Maybe even with your kids' narrations and spelling or math skills or something like that.

Ever had that feeling?

100%. Yes. I would say that's probably the normal for us. I just think I have these expectations that it's just going to happen and it's going to be great and it's all going to be as it should and our homeschool world.

If we use Charlotte's methods, it will look exactly like what she describes, you know?

When we say narrate, then the child is just going to wax eloquent.

And be happy about it.

Yes, yes.

So how can we encourage our fellow homeschoolers in this concept of being content to walk before

you run, I guess, is the way I think of it.

Yeah.

A couple of things come to mind.

The first thing is, I think it's really important to know your child and know what they can do where they're at now.

And you would know where you want to be but not give them that extra pressure

of well you didn't do that right or why didn't you already get this done yesterday or you know

you're 12 years old you should be writing narrations three times a week, you know. I think it's important

to know where you want to be with your kids school-wise, but also to know where your child's

ed and their temperament and their personality and maybe their goals for their school. I just think

that's, there's value in knowing your child well so that you, you don't overwhelm them with what they, you know, they can potentially do.

Right.

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