How often do you eat? I assume you eat every day. Our bodies need good food and not just once or twice a week.

That food gives our body's energy, and we can use that energy to accomplish beautiful and noble things.

Charlotte Mason believed that just as our bodies need good food, so do our minds.

Our minds use that food to accomplish beautiful and noble thoughts, which lead to our actions.

Now feeding your mind is not the same thing as exercising it, just as eating is not the same thing as jogging.

Both are good, but it's easy to slip into an exercise mindset when it comes to our mindset and

neglect to feed them with good, loving, noble ideas that they can ponder and chew on, as it were.

So today I'm going to give you two simple ways to serve your children and yourself, daily

nourishing mind food. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. We've been discussing

how to make the transition to the Charlotte Mason method in five stages. We've already talked

about stage one, the basics, and Stage 2, things that we will do just

once a week.

So today let's look at Stage 3.

And this is two things that I want you to start doing every day.

The first is Literature, a Family Read a Loud Book. Choose one of the great children's classic

literature books such as Black Beauty or The Wind and the Willows or Heidi or Charlotte's

Webb or the Little House books or the Little Bridges books. Mix in great books from your

family's heritage and from other cultures and countries.

The key is to make sure the book is well written, that it tells a good story, and that

it presents good ideas to think about.

Our children can learn a lot of life lessons from well-written literature books. Take

Winnie the Pooh, for example. We learn that it's good to have a thoughtful spot to take some

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