Charlotte Mason included folk dance in the wide and varied feast. Today's interview with Sandra Sosa explores some of the enormous range of possibilities that open up to us when we consider making dancing a part of our education. Her contagious enthusiasm will inspire even the most bashful among us to get moving and add a joyous element to our lives.

Episode 172: Folk Dancing with Sandra Sosa

Through twice monthly conversations, three moms who have studied the Charlotte Mason method of education and put her ideas into practice in their homes join together to share with one another for the benefit of listeners by giving explanations of Mason's principles and examples of those principles put into practice out of their own teaching experience. These short discussions aim at providing information, support, and encouragement for others by unfolding the myriad aspects.

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As we near the end of this season-long discussion on "Trusting the Method" we turn our attention to the curriculum itself. How can we choose curriculum that Trusts Charlotte Mason's Method? How can we evaluate whether a resource or curriculum follows the method in part or whole? How do we decide if we even *want* to trust the method with our curriculum?     "N.B.1 In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able, but more work must be expected from I A." (All P.U.S. Programmes)       Arabella Buckley's Eyes and No-Eyes Series Here and Here    Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics       Beauty & Truth Math   Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?   Charlotte Mason's Curriculum Programmes   Episode 70: CM Purists   Visual Latin   ADE's Teacher Helps   Episode 6: Living Books   Episode 7: Recognizing Living Books   Episode 8: Narration 2.0   Episode 3: The Role of the Teacher   Episode 5: The Power of Connection   ADE's Episodes by Topic   Charlotte Mason's Short Synopsis:     Points 1-4      Points 5-8      Points 9-12      Points 13-15      Points 16-19      Point 20    ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, as she prepares to graduate her oldest student this spring, Morgan Conner joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. After jumping from one curriculum to the next, once Morgan discovered Charlotte Mason, she never looked back, but that doesn't mean it has always been easy. You will glean much from Morgan's vulnerability and honesty as she describes overcoming her perfectionistic tendencies and learned to trust the Lord with even the smallest details with her neurodiverse students.      For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay   Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen        Q&A; about Nature Walks   Podcast Episode on Forecasting   Forecasting Teacher Training Workshop   Morgan's episode on Reading Charlotte Mason's Volumes   Morgan's episode on Planning Physical Geography Lessons   ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 277: Trusting the Method with Morgan Conner

Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 2, 2024, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to contribute what they had been taught by William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair. If you have read the book, you will revel in the myriad messages this book conveyed to us all, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.        Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray       Talkbox.mom 

Episode 276: ADE Book Club Discussion -- Vanity Fair

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, Jami Hurt, mom of two homeschool graduates tells us about her experience with Charlotte Mason Homeschooling, and the joys she is witnessing with her boys who have now launched their own lives in young adulthood.        For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay   Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard     ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 275: Trusting the Method with Jami Hurt

As home educators trying to spread the wide feast of a Charlotte Mason education for multiple children, we feel the need to have our students working independently. But how do we get them there? Join Liz, Nicole, and Emily as they discuss the rewards and challenges with practical advice for how to help our children grow in independence--in school lessons and beyond.         “As we have already urged, there is but one right way, that is, children must do the work for themselves. They must read the given pages and tell what they have read, they must perform, that is, what we may call the act of knowing." (6/99)   “One of the features, and one of the disastrous features, of modern society, is that, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a vast system of prodding.” (3/39)   "...parents who have always satisfied the intellectual craving of their children must needs forego the delight of watching a literary awakening." (3/123)   “The children must know themselves to be let alone, whether to do their own duty or to seek their own pleasure. The constraining power should be present, but passive, so that the child may not feel himself hemmed in without choice. That free-will of man, which has for ages exercised faithful souls who would prefer to be compelled into all righteousness and obedience, is after all a pattern for parents. The child who is good because he must be so, loses in power of initiative more than he gains in seemly behaviour. Every time a child feels that he chooses to obey of his own accord, his power of initiative is strengthened.” (3/31)   "A parent may be willing to undergo any definite labours for his child's sake; but to be always catering for his behoof, always contriving that circumstances shall play upon him for his good, is the part of a god and not of a man!" (1/10)   "Make children happy and they will be good,' is absolutely true, but does it develop that strenuousness, the first condition of virtue, which comes of the contrary axiom-' Be good and you will be happy'?" (3/57)   "Let her distribute her time as she likes, but count her tale of bricks; let her choose books for her own reading, but know what she chooses; let her choose her own companions, but put before her the principles on which to choose..." (5/245)       The Coddling of the American Mind, Haidt and Lukianoff       Awaken: Living Books Conference   2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference}   Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity   ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 172: Folk Dancing with Sandra Sosa

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