Those of us who use Charlotte Mason know that it is a beautiful and enriching experience for both us and our children.

But is it enough?

Especially as those children grow older and get into the upper grades, does a Charlotte Mason approach do our children a disservice?

Let's talk about that and set your mind at ease.

The Charlotte Mason approach is comprehensive, challenging, and rewarding all the way up through high school.

I'll lay it out for you. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. We're starting a new series today

in which I'm going to walk you through what a Charlotte Mason education looks like, the big picture

through all the grades from preschool through high school.

We'll look at how the methods Charlotte used fit the children naturally at each stage,

how they level up in difficulty over the grades, and how each stage solidly prepares your student for the next level of challenge.

It is a brilliant and extensive plan that will definitely set your child up for success,

with strong skills, with deep relations with a wide variety of subjects, with her all-important natural

God-given curiosity and love for learning still intact, plus with the tools that she

needs in order to keep learning for a lifetime. So let's dive in.

We're going to begin with preschool.

What does Charlotte Mason look like in the preschool years?

Now in a Charlotte Mason approach, formal lessons don't begin until six years old,

so those preschool years include ages 3 through 5 and what we would consider kindergarten.

In those early years, your young child needs plenty of time to explore and assimilate the world

around her through everyday life. She needs an atmosphere where people, God, and learning are valued

and loved. She needs to have good habits of thinking and behaving intentionally cultivated.

And she needs an abundance of living ideas presented informally.

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