God blessed some families with children who make teaching feel effortless. Mine is not one of them! Borrowing from Charlotte Mason’s analogy of Scylla and Charybdis in her thoughts on power and permissiveness, I felt trapped between drilling my children like a six-headed monster with razor-sharp teeth and sucking their talents into a pool of [...]
Archive for September, 2008
What to Do When Children Are Left Behind by Tammy Glaser
Posted in Philosophy on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Charlotte Mason on the Prairie by Nancy Kelly
Posted in Mason Around the World, tagged Add new tag, Mason Educational Retreat, Mason in the Midwest on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ChildLightUSA wishes to support efforts that present and preserve Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. Nancy Kelly has attended the ChildLightUSA Charlotte Mason Educational Conference that occurs each June at Gardner-Webb University in NC. I have listened to her lectures on Mason and she has been a strong supporter of Mason’s philosophy for a number of years. [...]
