As I was making my bed this morning, a familiar little thought flashed through my mind.

What's the point? You're just going to unmake it again when you crawl in tonight.

But just as quickly, my mind replayed a conversation that I had with the friend.

Now, this particular friend travels the world, doing training and consulting for large businesses. Now, I remember his telling

me that one of the first questions he asks when hiring any new employee is, did you make

your bed this morning? To him, making your bed is not about efficiency. It's about the self-discipline

and consistency that the habit shows.

That's the point of making your bed every morning.

And sometimes we can have similar little thoughts flash across our minds in regards

to certain school subjects. What's the point? Different people will have different reasoning, but I want to share with you what I think

and what Charlotte Mason believed was the reason for including a wide variety of subjects.

We've already discussed the point of music study and art in your homeschool curriculum.

If you missed that episode, check the description for a link. Today, let's take

a look at foreign language. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

It can be challenging to teach your child a foreign language, especially if you don't know

it yourself.

Learning a foreign language puts all of us on level ground, and it can make us feel like preschoolers

again.

It can feel uncomfortable to try to wrap our tongues around unfamiliar sounds and our brains around different sentence

structures.

And just when we think we've grasped something, we discover that, oh, we're pronouncing

it incorrectly.

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