A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

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Episode 114: Listener Q&A #24 Feb 23, 2018

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Application of Charlotte Mason's principles in many areas of life is the focus of the ADE monthly Q&A episodes. This month: how do we manage children's extracurricular involvements, when should we expect children to gain independence with schoolwork, and are daily scheduled timetables relevant for the homeschool as much as they are used in formal classroom settings.

Episode 113: Service Feb 16, 2018

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Charlotte Mason's educational method encompasses all of life. This podcast episode explores the possibilities of sharing and showing love as a family through acts of mercy and service to our neighbors near and far through an interview with friend and Mason educating mom of six, Vanessa Kijewski, who shares her experiences in training her children to give.

Episode 112: Notebooks and Paperwork, Part 2 Feb 09, 2018

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This podcast episode on Charlotte Mason's method is the second part for discussion of paperwork and notebooks. In particular, Emily addresses all the things that help our children keep track of history chronology, and Liz and Nicole share ways they have managed the organization of papers and notebooks throughout the years.

Episode 111: Notebooks and Paperwork, Part I Feb 02, 2018

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This Charlotte Mason education podcast focuses on the papers, the recordings, and drawings--all the reproductions of knowledge in the making. In particular, Liz, Nicole, and Emily address the explicitly described or preserved examples of various notebooks Mason's students used from which we can glean ideas to benefit our own students today.

Episode 110: Listener Q&A #23 Jan 26, 2018

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This week's Charlotte Mason podcast episode is another Q&A session with Liz, Nicole, and Emily, notably: is it okay to start a Mason education midyear? are the special studies books too simple and deameaning to our child's intelligence? and what about a passage in Mason's writings that contradicts ideas she shares in other places?

Episode 109: The Profession of Teaching Jan 19, 2018

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This Charlotte Mason education podcast episode explores our responsibilities in teaching. If we have agreed to take on homeschooling as our work, what are the attitudes and practices that will make us good at our job?

Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity Jan 12, 2018

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Charlotte Mason encouraged a practice called "Masterly Inactivity." Emily, Liz, and Nicole discuss what this is, why it is important, and how in the world a mother actually manages to balance law and freedom in her home.

Episode 107: Forming Informed Opinions Jan 05, 2018

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Charlotte Mason wrote vastly on the subject of opinions, and this podcast will address some of her salient points. Do opinions matter? Does each person need to form their own? What do we do to help our children make sensible opinions? These questions and more will be discussed.

Episode 106: Listener Q&A #22 Dec 29, 2017

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This Q&A podcast episodes focuses on Charlotte Mason's counsel for exams with many students, combining many students in one book, and what to accomplish during school breaks.

Episode 105: Bible Lesson for the Upper Forms with Saviour of the World Dec 22, 2017

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The Savior of the World, Charlotte Mason's seven-volume poetic rendering of the Gospels, was part of the Bible lesson in her curriculum for forms III-VI. Liz, Emily, and Nicole become the students as their guest teacher, Art Middlekauff, leads an immersion class to demonstrate how the Savior of the World was incorporated in a lesson.

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