We often talk about the Charlotte Mason method or the Charlotte Mason approach, and we think about that in terms of curriculum, homeschooling, how do we do the lessons.

But Charlotte Mason turns out to be much more than just a curriculum. Let's talk about it.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Shaver.

Joining me today is my friend Amber O'Neill Johnston.

Amber, when we first started with Charlotte Mason,

well, I'm speaking for myself, but I think your experience is the same.

It was, how do I do homeschool?

This is the curriculum. This is the methods I want to use in my home school.

But it turned into something more than that.

Oh, absolutely. I was definitely looking for methods of introducing lessons to

my children to educate them. And I really had no idea in the beginning what I was doing. I was looking

for direction. And pretty quickly, I realized, okay, this is causing us to alter the rhythms of our days.

Yes.

And that led to the rhythms of our month and our year, our months in our year.

And after a while I quickly realized, okay, we are a Charlotte Mason family.

And now I know more of what that means when people say that.

Yes.

It changes the way you think about your days, as you said,

the way you think about what you see around you. Well, if you think about it, Charlotte said,

education is that we are educating the whole person. When we started homeschooling, at least when I did, I was thinking,

how do I shape their minds? Oh, definitely. I think I was thinking the same thing as well.

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