SS #132: Intellectual Training with Charlotte Mason
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the second in our four part series on habits and training. Last time, Mystie, Abby, and Brandy talked about physical training. Today they're discussing intellectual training, including that most controversial assertion of Charlotte Mason, that attention can be trained. You're going to love this conversation!
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Have you heard about the ongoing Sophie Mentorship inside the Scholé Sistership? It started on October 23rd and it's not too late to join! The mentorship is called Grow Up: Courage to Be the Adult in the Room. We're reading from four different books and having various types of rich discussions as we flesh out how to grow up so that we can better mother our children. There is a 3-week break over Christmas to give time to catch up if you want to jump in now. Just go to scholesisters.com/sistership and join as a Sophie to be a part of this fabulous four-month study.
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| 0:00.0 | What was a huge game changer early on in our parenting? |
| 0:03.0 | My husband and I, because we had these girls that would feed on each other and freak each other out at night. |
| 0:07.9 | When Charlotte Mason inspired us to be like, well, that's your problem. |
| 0:12.0 | You're the one who chose to think that. |
| 0:13.3 | You don't have to think that. |
| 0:14.7 | That changed everything because it forced them to take responsibility for their thoughts. |
| 0:20.2 | And now they try to force me to do that, which is super annoying. |
| 0:23.3 | But anyway. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to Scalae Sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking moms we can. |
| 0:40.8 | This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done. |
| 0:48.0 | Scalay Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, |
| 0:55.7 | and applying faithfully, equips us for the task of educating our children. I'm your host, |
| 1:02.2 | Brandy Vensel. To get my free, almost weekly, mostly Charlotte Mason newsletter, go to afterthoughtsblog.net |
| 1:10.1 | slash subscribe and sign up. |
| 1:13.9 | My co-hosts today are Misty Winkler and Abby Walt. |
| 1:18.4 | Misty is a homeschooling mom of five, including two graduates. She writes in podcasts at |
| 1:23.5 | simplyconvial.com and is the author of the convivial homeschool. |
| 1:29.2 | Abby is basically the queen of the Skolle Sistership. |
| 1:33.2 | Abby is a country-living farmer rancher, a loving wife and mom of five who homeschools |
| 1:38.5 | and reads whenever she can. |
| 1:42.0 | Have you heard about our ongoing Sophie mentorship? |
| 1:45.8 | It started on October 23rd, and it's not too late to join us. |
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