YMB #4 Choosing What is Best: A Conversation with Dr. Christopher Perrin

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If you've been following along with the last couple of interviews here at Your Morning Basket, you know that Pam has been walking us through the "3Rs" that make up a rich Morning Time: recitation, reading aloud, and ritual.

Now it's time to tackle the third R, ritual. So often I find myself wanting to slow down and give my children time in our day to think, explore, and reflect. I want our Morning Time to be about more than checking off items from our list of things to do, but I'm not sure how to develop a meaningful liturgy that will help us begin our day. And then I find myself wondering if any ritual can really be restful and refreshing when energetic, chatty young children are involved.

Today's episode addresses these issues and so much more. Pam talks with Dr. Christopher Perrin of Classical Academic Press, who introduces us to the concept of scholé, or restful learning. Dr. Perrin encourages us to develop liturgical practices for Morning Time that can set the stage for scholé in our homes, and he provides us with examples of restful learning that can work in real life, even with wiggly, noisy kids like mine. There is so much to take in from this interview; I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

For downloads and links visit the show notes at https://pambarnhill.com/ymb4

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0:00.0	This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.
0:17.8	Hi, everyone, it's Pam Barnhill, and welcome to episode four of the Your Morning Basket
0:23.9	podcast. It's really great to have you guys here with me today. Well, I hope your school year has
0:29.6	gotten off to a great start and your morning time. And speaking of morning times, because, yeah,
0:35.3	that's what we talk about here, people have been sharing with me pictures of their morning times because yeah that's what we talk about here people have been sharing with me
0:38.6	pictures of their morning times at the hashtag your morning basket on instagram and other social
0:46.3	media it's been a lot of fun to go through there and see lots of cute baskets and lots of cute
0:52.4	kids having a great time learning during morning time.
0:56.2	So I just want to encourage you to do that.
0:58.3	Share your photos.
0:59.5	Hashtag your morning basket on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media.
1:04.1	And I'll be checking that out to have a look and see what you guys are up to in morning time in your home.
1:10.7	Well, today I get to interview a favorite
1:13.4	mentor of mine. This is Dr. Christopher Perrin from Classical Academic Press. I had the wonderful
1:19.6	opportunity to take a class with Dr. Perrin this summer on Scolet in your school and homeschool.
1:26.2	And it was such a blessing to me. And I was really happy when he
1:29.4	agreed to come on to the podcast and talk to us about that third R ritual. So this will tie up the
1:35.9	reading, recitation, and ritual podcast, kind of breaking open those aurs of morning time. So sit back and enjoy the program.
1:50.6	Dr. Christopher Perrin is the CEO of Classical Academic Press, board vice president of the
1:57.4	Society for Classical Learning, and the director of the Alkuin Fellowship of Classical
2:02.3	Educators. He is also the Latin Magisterre in our home through his wonderful Song School Latin
2:09.1	and Latin for children materials. Dr. Perrin has an extensive background in teaching and writing
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