People tend to think the way they have been thinking. And the longer you've been thinking a certain way, the more ingrained it becomes, until you might not even realize that it's the pattern of your thoughts.

Here's a silly example, but I think it will help you see what I mean. When I was growing up, we lived in the country. We would make the trip to go get groceries

every two weeks. When I got married and set up my own housekeeping, we were living in an

apartment in town. And I would get so frustrated on grocery day. I was shopping every two weeks,

but that little apartment didn't have enough cupboard space to hold

that many groceries at once. Finally, I expressed my frustration to my new husband, and he

gently suggested that I could get fewer groceries by going every week. I was so used to making

the grocery list and scheduling the shopping for two weeks that I didn't

even realize how much that idea was ingrained in my thought process. People tend to think

the way they have been thinking, and sometimes we don't even realize those ingrained thought patterns.

We've been talking about how to make the transition to the Charlotte Mason method in your home school. Some people are ready to dive in

with both feet. Others feel more comfortable easing into it step by step. So I've been outlining

a way to make that transition in five stages, and

I hope you feel free to linger at each stage until it feels comfortable. We've talked

at length about changing your methods for the different school subjects, but there's also

a change that needs to happen in your mindset.

Today, I want to address that mental part of making the transition.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Most of us think about education

in certain ways. Some of those ideas might fall right into step with a Charlotte Mason approach,

but some might not. And if we don't know the difference, it will be easy to get off track.

We tend to think, as we have been thinking unless we purposefully make a change. So let's take a look at three tendencies that might be

programmed into our minds from our past experiences. Three ideas that we might easily lean into without realizing that they're

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