By The Filipino Parent's Review
A pair of Filipino Moms sharing their insights about their current read from the Home Education Series of Charlotte Mason, and what they do for Mother Culture--books, movies, shows, crafts, and eve
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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
Welcome back to the pod! ☺
Angel and Jumie are back to talk about books, movies, TV shows, and some more books... with a few changes to the format.
In this episode, they talk about Chanel Miller's memoir, "Know My Name," and share with us their thoughts and reflections as mothers raising young boys in today's society.
Warning: Spoilers ahead. Proceed with caution.
This is quite a packed episode as we talk about our why's in homeschooling to try to give context to the things we share and the decisions we have made in our individual journeys leading to our Charlotte Mason story. We also discuss a bit about how we try to educate and equip ourselves, staying informed about different homeschool providers, and our process in choosing books and curriculum.
We end the episode with a gentle reminder that "education is an atmosphere" and how we are part of that atmosphere.
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**Wall of Quotes**
As I read her descriptions of that wide syllabus, I realized that the food needed by my children was knowledge--not a haphazard accumulation of any knowledge that interested them, but a disciplined, well-planned intake of "the enormous field of knowledge to which a child ought to be introduced in right of his human nature.
-Colleen Manning, https://www.amblesideonline.org/LivingBks.shtml
Will children have gaps in their learning? Yes. There isn't a way to teach our children everything about everything. The public schools can't do it and neither can we, which is why it is so important for parents to pay attention to their kids' curiosities.
-Durenda Wilson, The Unhurried Homeschooler
The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?
-Charlotte Mason
After a month of hiatus, we are finally back to talk about books, Charlotte Mason, and life in general.
***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We discuss the soon-to-be movie feature (but no dates yet!) The Midnight Library and Alan Jacobs' Breaking Bread with the Dead. We shared how these books made us feel and think about how they both apply to our lives at present time.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
We talk about our key takeaways Part V - Lessons as Instrument of Education and gave listeners a bit of a hint about what the next episode is going to be about.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
Rest is vital and he we share our mama me-time plans for the weekend, making ourselves accountable to make time specifically for ourselves.
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**Wall of Quotes**
"You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it."
-Matt Haig, *The Midnight Library*
"The way that you expand your Now is not by treating the distant past as though it were present; rather, your task is to see it in its difference as well as in its likeness to your own moment."
-Alan Jacobs, *Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind*
"There are many wonderful things about books, but among the most wonderful things is that you can lose them when you need to. It’s like being able to quit someone’s table instantaneously... it might actually be a good reason not to."
-Alan Jacobs, *Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind*
"It isn’t the writer who’s the time traveler. It’s the reader. The author is not a guest at our table, we are a guest at hers."
-Alan Jacobs, *Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind*
"Wisdom lies in discernment."
-Alan Jacobs, *Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind*
"She was speaking to her country, her culture, and her time... she was speaking to the wordy Victorians and their successors, the Edwardians... to British parents who lived over hundred years ago... Does that make her principles unusable for us? Not at all. Principles do not change... Principles remain constant."
-Karen Glass, *In Vital Harmony*
"It is the very nature of an idea to grow."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"We live in an age of pedagogy"
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? How should they learn it?"
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child's minds, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any process of disciplinary education."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"Allowing each child to digest and narrate knowledge for herself is part and parcel of a larger philosophy that underpins the use of narration as an educational practice: a philosophy that sees each child as a person with a hungry mind that needs to be fed in order to grow, not a vessel to be filled."
-Karen Glass, *Know and Tell: The Art of Narration*
**TFPR Booklist**
Home Education, Charlotte Mason - https://amzn.to/3om8D85
The Midnight Library: A Novel, Matt Haig - https://amzn.to/3suG6i4
When Breath Becomes Air by: Paul Kalanithi - https://amzn.to/399RKY0
Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs - https://amzn.to/3pY4QOE
In Vital Harmony, Karen Glass
Know and Tell: The Art of Narration, Karen Glass https://amzn.to/3e7V3kL
In this episode, we share why we took a short break from the podcast and talked about a myriad of topics yet again.
***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We shared our love for medical drama and theorized why the "new" and popular Netflix medical drama is not working for us. We talked about the show Parenthood and why we believe it is a must-see for all parents out there.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
We finished reading Part IV: Some Habits of Mind - Some Moral Habits with the TFPR Book Club and here we share our key takeaways. We talk about thinking as a real conscious effort of mind, finding connections everywhere, touched on living books, and tried to go into more depth about obedience.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
We talk about our #3bookstack for the week so expect a number of book titles. Angel is decluttering and will be selling some of their books and toys so check that out!
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**Wall of Quotes**
"This is the sort of thing that the children should go through, more or less, in every lesson—a tracing of effect from cause, or of cause from effect; a comparing of things to find out wherein they are alike, and wherein they differ; a conclusion as to causes or consequences from certain premises."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"Later, when the child is old enough, take him into confidence. Let him know that it's a noble thing to be able to make yourself do in a minute the thing that you don't feel like doing. To train a habit of obedience, the mother must be very careful never to give a command that she doesn't intend to enforce. At the same time, she must not burden her children with the tedious weight of one command after another."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"There is no need to rate the child, or threaten him, or use any manner of violence, because the parent is invested with authority which the child intuitively recognises."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"it’s not all about constant and unquestioning obedience; at least, not when that training later hinders us from acting with intelligence and courage. that, like seed without deep roots, unthinking or fear-based good conduct does not enable us to make real choices. If home or school has felt like a prison, full of arbitrary rules, without happiness or freedom, that makes it even worse. We want to escape, but in the meantime we learn not to care too much about anything. Bitter and rebellious attitudes are not the fruit of a strong character tree."
-Anne E. White, *Minds More Awake: The Vision of Charlotte Mason*
**TFPR Booklist**
Know and Tell: The Art of Narration by Karen Glass (https://amzn.to/3e7V3kL)
The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig (https://amzn.to/3suG6i4)
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) (https://amzn.to/3doF0jr)
Charlotte Mason's Home Education (Home Education Series) - (https://amzn.to/2QsNXiP)
The Authenticity Project: A Novel (https://amzn.to/3dl3p9E)
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs (https://amzn.to/2QbUZZf)
Liberating Motherhood: Birthing the Purplestockings Movement (https://amzn.to/3mT9gpH)
The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion (https://amzn.to/2Q7IH4e)
The Rosie Effect: A Novel (https://amzn.to/3e9p5EK)
The Rosie Result (Don Tillman Series, 3) (https://amzn.to/3sm0AcI)
This episode, we take a break from usual as we try to answer questions we received.
Angel shares some useful tips on how to make reading a habit (hint: your partner's support makes a lot of difference) as Jumie shares a typical day in their life and the pockets of time she gets to read. Both also agree that less social media equals more time for books.
We responded to some homeschool-related questions particularly how we started (though it's really difficult to identify where the starting point is because we now believe that it is true what they say—you homeschool from birth!), if we follow a curriculum, if you really need a provider, and how planning ahead helps them keep their sanity. And of course, we also share book titles for early years that we and our kids enjoy.
If you liked any of the things we discussed and recommend here, let us know on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thefilipinoparentsreview/) and please use the hashtag #TFPRecommends
Welcome to the Filipino Parent's Review Podcast! It's Women's Month and this year's IWD theme is #ChooseToChallenge and that is what we are bringing in this episode.
***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We talk about empowered females in books and shows. Jumie talks about Chanel Miller's groundbreaking memoir, Know My Name and opened the conversation about gendered boundaries. Angel talks about Veronica Mars and its parallelism to what she experienced as a young female expert in a male-dominated industry.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
We discuss more about habits as we try to dig into what Charlotte Mason means when she said that it is the parents' job to initiate thoughts, desires, and feelings. Jumie shares her inhibitions as Angel offers a possible angle thus resulting to a very interesting conversation which may have birthed a new project sometime soon.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
#WeReadWomen for the whole month of March and here we share our TBR titles plus our ongoing struggle to finish reading Jane Eyre.
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**Wall of Quotes**
Men had lines other men didn't cross, an unspoken respected space. I imagine a thick line drawn like a perimeter around Lucas. Men would speak to me as if no line existed, everyday I was forced to redraw it as quickly as I could. Why weren't my boundaries inherent?
-Chanel Miller, *Know My Name*
The situation it produces for us, however, is brilliantly clear. We are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction. Therefore the primary task in living, for any human being, is to find and do the work for which he or she was created.
-Mary McDermott Shideler, Introduction. Dorothy Sayers, *Are Women Human?*
[The child is still] immature of will, feeble in moral power, unused to the weapons of the spiritual warfare... He depends upon his parents; it rests with them to initiate the thoughts he shall think, the desires he shall cherish, the feelings he shall allow.
Children depend on their parents to initiate the thoughts and desires that fill their minds. Parents initiate these thoughts, but that's all. Once a thought is begun in a child's mind, it takes hold and develops itself, resulting in habits that become his character into adulthood. (modern paraphrase)
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
Understanding who we are, how we relate to the world, how we view others, and the issues of power and control is critical to creating change in ourselves and ultimately broader social change for all children.
-Teresa Graham Brett, *Parenting for Social Change*
Two primary principles—children are born persons and education is the science of relations—influence the ways in which we motivate our students. Persons have a natural desire—curiosity—to form relationships with knowledge of all kinds. If our teaching invokes motives that hinder the natural development of those relations, we are infringing on their personhood.
-Karen Glass, *In Vital Harmony*
The most important of which is that children are born persons. Because each child is a person, our authority should not be arbitrary but should be tempered by the respect due a person. No authority gives us the right to trespass upon the personhood of a child. The fourth principle says we must remember that the personality of a child “must not be encroached upon, whether by the direct use of fear or love, suggestion or influence, or by undue play upon any one natural desire” (Philosophy of Education, xxix).
-Karen Glass, *In Vital Harmony*
**TFPR Booklist**
Know My Name by: Chanel Miller (https://amzn.to/3biWrRk)
Are Women Human? by: Dorothy Sayers (https://amzn.to/30j2gba)
Home Education by: Charlotte Mason (https://amzn.to/3rlv6DS)
Parenting for Social Change by: Teresa Graham Brett (https://amzn.to/3blHSwl)
In Vital Harmony by: Karen Glass (https://amzn.to/3kRp8bu)
Jane Eyre by: Charlotte Bronte (https://amzn.to/3qo1STr)
The Vanishing Half by: Brit Bennett (https://amzn.to/2Ow1Nj6)
The Authenticity Project by: Clare Pooley (https://amzn.to/3rnP9S6)
Trick Mirror by: Jia Tolentino (https://amzn.to/3rqh7MX)
Hood Feminism by: Mikki Kendall (https://amzn.to/30epP54)
The Conscious Parent by: Shefali Tsabary (https://amzn.to/3bmDkWC)
The Psychopath by: Mary Turner Thompson (https://amzn.to/3uYmBAO)
The Bigamist by: Mary Turner Thompson (https://amzn.to/3biAx0H)
Longbourn by: Jo Baker (https://amzn.to/3qmOFtS)
Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen (https://amzn.to/3kNkafN)
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***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We talk about early 2000s TV shows Veronica Mars and Bones as Angel goes through the seasons for the first time and Jumie explains why Veronica Mars is is her most favorite TV character to date.
We also dissect our thoughts and feelings about social media as we discuss Angel's current reads, The Stories We Tell and Strangely Bright, and the Black Mirror episode titled Nosedive.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
As we prepare for our book club virtual meeting, we share our thoughts about habit training, what Charlotte Mason said about the objective of educators, and how this relates to Jumie's current read, The Creed in Slow Motion.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
What do we have for the weekend? Books, journaling, homeschool planning, and a lot of introspection in between. We also want craft ideas. Please send them our way!
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***Wall of Quotes***
People watch because they like watching people.
-Mike Cosper, The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth
Our minds and hearts are designed to connect our experience of the natural world to the spiritual world and the God who governs both.
-Joe Rigney, Strangely Bright
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil.
-Charlotte Mason, Home Education
In the first place, whether you choose or not to take any trouble about the formation of his habits, it is habit, all the same, which will govern ninety-nine one-hundredths (99%) of the child's life.
-Charlotte Mason, Home Education
If I could but make others see with my eyes how much this saying should mean to the educator!
-Charlotte Mason, Home Education
It is the job of the parents...to train their children to alter their nature in the right direction. And God is training you and me...God is altering our natures all the time, is turning us into the kind of people he wants us to be; he wouldn't be our true Father otherwise...
-Ronald Knox, The Creed in Slow Motion
There is bound to be suffering in a fallen world where human beings have free will, because they will inflict suffering on one another. To that extent God does limit his own Almighty power. He lets us do harm to one another, because if he didn't, the gift of free will would become meaningless.
-Ronald Knox
***TFPR Booklist***
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- The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth by Mike Cosper (https://amzn.to/3dp6mq4)
- Strangely bright by Joe Rigney (https://amzn.to/3qzAQJJ)
- Migrations: A Novel by Charlotte McConaghy (https://amzn.to/3beN04g)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (https://amzn.to/2ZxCD61)
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller (https://amzn.to/37w1V9g)
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (https://amzn.to/3dqUzYa)
- Home Education (Volume 1) by Charlotte Mason (https://amzn.to/37pHB9d)
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***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
This episode is packed with a whole lot of book titles as we recap our January reads, talk about book series we love (including Gossip Girl—yes, it was based on a book series just in case you missed that part), and give you a glimpse of the books we have lined up for February.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
Here we discuss some key concepts from Part 2 of Home Education like nature journaling/nature diary and geography, and celebrate how we got a better understanding of what Charlotte Mason was saying after reading Consider This by Karen Glass.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
Home rearrangements, more books, and street games—these are our plans for the weekend. Share yours?
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**Wall of Quotes**
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
-C.S. Lewis, *The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes*
Believing a thing (in the theological sense) means embracing it as something you are going to live by. And on the other hand, believing a thing does mean knowing what you are talking about, using your brains over it, not merely shouting it out as a slogan. Belief isn't just a matter of the intellect, isn't just a matter of the will; it is an activity of the whole man.
-Ronald Knox, *The Creed in Slow Motion*
Is it advisable, then, to teach the children the elements of natural science, of biology, botany, zoology? on the whole, no: the dissection even of a flower is painful to a sensitive child, and, during the first six or eight years of life, I would not teach them any botany which should necessitate the pulling of flowers to bits; much less should they be permitted to injure or destroy any (not noxious) form of animal life. Reverence for life, as a wonderful and awful gift, which a ruthless child may destroy but never can restore, is a lesson of first importance to the child—
"Let knowledge grow from more to more;
But more of reverence in us dwell." (Tennyson)
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"The formation of habits is education, and Education is the formation of habits."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
**TFPR Booklist**
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America is Not the Heart :[https://amzn.to/2MTEvmP](https://amzn.to/2MTEvmP)
In Five Years: A Novel [https://amzn.to/3jkYUx8](https://amzn.to/3jkYUx8)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel [https://amzn.to/2N14RDu](https://amzn.to/2N14RDu)
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition [https://amzn.to/3oOIT3B](https://amzn.to/3oOIT3B)
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind [https://amzn.to/39LKl2p](https://amzn.to/39LKl2p)
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes [https://amzn.to/3rp0z7y](https://amzn.to/3rp0z7y)
Jane Eyre (AmazonClassics Edition) [https://amzn.to/3azHLvI](https://amzn.to/3azHLvI)
Little Women [https://amzn.to/36H9wkE](https://amzn.to/36H9wkE)
The Rosie Project Series:
The Rosie Project [https://amzn.to/2LprxwG](https://amzn.to/2LprxwG)
The Rosie Effect [https://amzn.to/3jk5Ev6](https://amzn.to/3jk5Ev6)
The Rosie Result [https://amzn.to/3q3uke9](https://amzn.to/3q3uke9)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection: [https://amzn.to/3jluE5](https://amzn.to/3jluE5h)
The Creed in Slow Motion [https://amzn.to/3pLfJ6N](https://amzn.to/3pLfJ6N)
Home Education by Charlotte Mason [https://amzn.to/2MrAfLt](https://amzn.to/2MrAfLt)
Mythos [https://amzn.to/3rnRGLt](https://amzn.to/3rnRGLt)
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***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We received some questions how we watch shows that are not available in the Philippines. We share how in this episode! We also talk about shows we are recently watching: Bones and WandaVision and the show we have both recently finished: Little Fires Everywhere. We also talk a bit about the books Mythos by Stephen Fry, Dapitan Schoolboy by Patricia Laurel, Big Ideas for Curious Minds.
Less and More Of: our 2021 homeschool word(s). Find out how they are both different and similar at the same time!
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
This episode, we talk about our key takeaways and our favorite quotations from Part 2 of Vol 1 (Out-of-door Life for the Children) from Charlotte Mason's Home Education series along with our honest feelings about reading it while being indoors for almost the whole of 2020.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
What do we have planned for ourselves for the weekend? Book club meeting, Jane Eyre, and preparing for the #TFPRChallenge2021! We are hosting a Book Challenge that wishes to encourage everyone to read more Filipino-authored books this 2021. Check it out at https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/327580d7-3558-4cf4-85cd-ba278773da81
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**Wall of Quotes**
"Mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders are demanded of them."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"A mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet growing time, a full 6 years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it spent for the most part out in the fresh air."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"There is no sort of knowledge to be get in these early years so valuable to children as that which they get for themselves of the world they live in."
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
"It is doubtful that a teacher who does not understand and appreciate the principles that underlie the methods will be able to make the most of the methods in practice."
-Karen Glass, *Consider This*
**TFPR Booklist**
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Home Education
Consider This by: Karen Glass
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: an Introduction to Philosophy
Little Fires Everywhere by: Celeste Ng
Mythology by: Edith Hamilton
Mythos by: Stephen Fry
Dapitan Schoolboy
Jane Eyre by: Charlotte Bronte
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As we start the new year, we look back at our 2020 reading and watching life including the things we discovered about ourselves based on the books we have read and the shows we have watched. Angel also shared about the apps she use to track her reading progress and promised to get Jumie on it too. And then we look forward into the new year with the word we wish to guide our 2021 and shared our goals for the year.
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**Wall of Quotes**
"That's why I love the theater, It's how I escape. A distraction is momentary and escape helps you heal"
-The Prom. Directed by Ryan Murphy. Netflix, 2020.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
-*Emily Dickinson*
**TFPR Booklist**
Little Fires Everywhere by: Celeste Ng
Little Women by: Louisa May Alcott
The Conscious Parent by: Shefali Tsabary
The Awakened Family by: Shefali Tsabary
Anna Karenina by: Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller
Breaking Bread with the Dead by: Alan Jacobs
When Breath Becomes Air by: Paul Kalanithi
In Five Years by: Rebecca Serle
Pambungad sa Metapisika by: Fr. Roque Ferriols
Home Education by: Charlotte Mason
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.