You're listening to Scalais Sisters, episode number 20.

Welcome to Scalae Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama, who seeks to

learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalais Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches

of classical homeschooling who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all

done. I'm your host, Randy Venzel. You can find me at Afterthoughts, that's my main blog,

and also teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my

line of printable phonics lessons. You can hear more from me on my other podcast, Aftercast.

My co-host is Misty Winkler. Misty is a second generation homeschooler with five kids and too many

projects. She writes about practical classical homeschooling

at Simply Convivial and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization. We are thrilled to have

our friend Karen Glass on the show today. Karen is the author of Consider This, Charlotte

Mason and the classical tradition. And she's also the brain behind Mind to Mind, an abridgment of Charlotte Mason's sixth volume.

Karen is part of the advisory of Ambleside Online, she has four children, ages 12 to 26, and they were all homeschooled using Charlotte Mason's methods from beginning to end.

She has been studying and writing about Charlotte Mason and classical education for over 20 years.

This episode is sponsored by Start Here. When Charlotte Mason was trying to distill her

educational philosophy into its simplest form, she ended

up with 20 core principles, the distinctives of her philosophy.

Offering a variety of reading assignments on these subjects and discussion questions meant

to help you dig deeply, start here is a comprehensive guide to the big ideas governing

Charlotte Mason's philosophy.

Just head on over to afterthoughts blog.net slash start here and use the discount code

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