History is such a fascinating subject, especially when you approach it with the Charlotte Mason

method, those wonderful living books that just make that time period come alive.

In fact, learning history with my children, using Charlotte's methods turned history from my

least favorite subject into my most favorite subject.

We want to talk today about the benefits that can come from doing your history studies

and especially why would you ever want to repeat a certain history time period.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

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

Amber, thanks for joining us again.

We want to talk about history.

And we know it's such a great study especially approached in a Charlotte

Mason way why on earth would you ever repeat a certain history time period what

are the benefits to that that's such a good question I think one that a lot of

people have especially when they come first come to Charlotte Mason I know for me there have been myriad benefits that I did not recognize or expect beforehand.

One of the easiest ones for me to discuss is the idea of decreasing my anxiety about my kids needing to learn it all on this time around. So I can always, you know, rest assured that we are going to revisit this time period some point down the road.

And I will have another opportunity to introduce my children to new things, or they'll have an opportunity to hear

other ideas about people and places and things and so that we can enjoy this at a more leisurely

pace. It also makes the short lessons feel like they're something I can actually do.

That's a good point. So rather than trying to force everything in, I think history seems to be one of those subjects that it is very easy for us to fall back on the way we were taught.

Yes. And I do not want to do that with my children because, as you mentioned, I hated history.

Oh, it was just lists of facts and dates, names and dates.

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