Homeschooling is a beautiful journey filled with meaningful moments, but it can also be demanding. Between teaching multiple subjects and managing a household, it’s easy for mothers to pour everything into their children while neglecting their own needs. This is where the gentle concept of Mother Culture becomes so important.
The transition between preschool and kindergarten represents an important milestone in your Charlotte Mason homeschooling journey. If you’ve been following a Charlotte Mason approach during the preschool years, you’ve already provided your child with a wonderful foundation of outdoor exploration, living books, and natural learning through everyday life. Now, as your little one approaches ages…
A Charlotte Mason inspired preschool focuses on gentle, natural learning rather than formal lessons. You’ll find children exploring outdoors, listening to beautiful stories, and developing good habits through everyday activities like helping in the kitchen, taking part in household chores, and engaging in meaningful conversations.
Starting on a Charlotte Mason homeschool journey can feel both exciting and overwhelming. The Charlotte Mason method offers a rich, yet gentle, living education centered around nurturing a child’s mind, heart, and character, but knowing exactly where to begin can be challenging.
February offers us the perfect opportunity to celebrate love, beauty, and relationships through one of our favorite Charlotte Mason traditions – poetry tea time.
In a Charlotte Mason education, kindergarten looks quite different from what many might expect. As Mason herself wrote in Home Education, “In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life,…
Are you looking for Charlotte Mason spring nature study ideas for your homeschool? Those first warm days of spring, when the world starts waking up, provide the perfect backdrop for gentle nature study in our homeschools. Tiny buds appear on branches, early flowers push through the soil, and bird songs fill the morning air.
The holiday season brings a special kind of magic – twinkling lights, cozy evenings, and precious family moments. Yet for homeschooling families, it can also bring the challenge of balancing enjoyable Christmas activities with learning. These gentle Christmas learning tips, inspired by Charlotte Mason’s timeless philosophy, offer practical ways to keep learning alive during the…
The morning basket has become an essential part of our homeschool routine. It’s a simple yet effective way to start our day with focused and shared learning. My kids love it because it includes their favorite subjects, and I appreciate how it brings necessary structure to our mornings.
Living books are at the heart of Charlotte Mason homeschooling, as they provide engaging narratives, rich language, and real-life connections that inspire a love for learning and nurture a child’s imagination. I think the biggest question for families just starting out with the Charlotte Mason method revolves around the term living books… What is a…