After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and a limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it matters not whether our years be twenty of eighty.

• Cindy and Dawn share a little about the upcoming 2023 discipleship course at Morning Time for Moms, The Uphill Road
• Dawn asks Cindy how the summer discipleship course started several years ago
• They share a few highlights of what moms can expect and some of their favorite features of this time together

The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock

Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer

The Convivial Homeschool by Mystie Winckler

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Dawn’s Swedish Drill Website

Dawn’s Articles on Afterthoughtsblog.net

…what if the devitalization we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating, summarising, doing all those things for children which they are born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost and child [or mother] will take at a meal and digest at his leisure.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

• Today’s guest is Bethany Mandel, Orthodox Jewish homeschooling mother of 6, co-author of the new book Stolen Youth, and conservative political commentator
• How Bethany first heard of Charlotte Mason education
• How Bethany juggled home educating and writing a book at the same time
• What a typical day looks like in Bethany’s homeschool
• How Bethany navigates the challenges of finding CM-friendly Jewish homeschool resources
• How do you see Charlotte Mason lining up with Judaism?
• Why reading stories from the past perspectives is so important today
• What Bethany and Karol’s book is all about
• Are these problematic ideas infiltrating the homeschool community?

Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason

Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz

Heroes of Liberty series edited by Bethany Mandel

Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Honey on the Page trans. by Miriam Udel

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

A Gentle Feast Curriculum

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Right Books 4 Kids on Instagram

Bethany’s Instagram

But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent evil, the preparation of the child to take his place in the world at his best…

• This week’s guest on The New Mason Jar is Ella Rice, is a homeschooling mom of 5 who uses the Mater Amabilis curriculum with her children
• How Ella first learned about Charlotte Mason
• Is Mater Amabilis only for Catholics?
• What made you choose to use Mater Amabilis over other curriculum choices?
• What are some of your favorite part of the curriculum?
• How does Mater Amabilis handle the sciences?
• Are there any possible pitfalls for parents using this curriculum?

Real Learning Revisited by Elizabeth Foss (this is the updated edition of the book Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home Ella mentioned)

The Mater Amabilis Facebook Group

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Dawn’s Swedish Drill Website

Dawn’s Articles on Afterthoughtsblog.net

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of education based upon Natural Law. Does the child eat or drink, does he come, or go, or play––all the time he is being educated, though he is as little aware of it as he is of the act of breathing.

• Today on The New Mason Jar, Alanna Hendon returns to discuss more about using Charlotte Mason’s ideas in the homeschool
• How Alanna came to Charlotte Mason and learned more about her principles in-depth
• The gift of the unplanned and prioritizing principles over practices
• How do you see Charlotte Mason’s philosophy playing out with individual children versus the group?
• What a typical day looks like in Alanna’s homeschool

Home Education by Charlotte Mason

AmblesideOnline

Brandy Vencel’s Charlotte Mason Think Tank

Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew

Episode 51: Homeschool Boys with Alanna Hendon

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Alanna’s Instagram

…of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

• Cindy and Dawn tackle another round of listener questions on this episode of The New Mason Jar
• How can a mom of several school age children keep up with pre-reading?
• How do you implement use of a Book of Centuries?
• What can be done about children complaining about morning time?

Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason

Literary Life Online Conference – Shakespeare: The Bard for All and For All Time

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Dawn’s Swedish Drill Website

Dawn’s Articles on Afterthoughtsblog.net

...to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all.

• Today’s returning guest is Anne White, veteran homeschool mom, author, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
• Anne’s history with Lent and how she and her family started observing the seasons of the church year
• What is different about Charlotte Mason’s book Ourselves than her other volumes?
• How might Ourselves be used in the homeschool?
• How Anne went on her own journey in writing Offering Ourselves
• What are some of Anne’s family traditions for Lent and Easter?
• How the AmblesideOnline Advisory created a new resource page for the Easter season

Offering Ourselves: A Lenten Journey with Charlotte Mason by Anne White

Honest, Simple Souls by Anne White

Studying to Be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping by Laurie Bestvater

100 Days of Keeping Invitation

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason

The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley

AmblesideOnline’s new Easter/Resurrection Idea page

Ideas Freely Sown by Anne White

The Practical Plutarch by Anne White

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Anne Writes

Anne’s Author Page on Amazon

Anne’s Blog: Dewey’s Treehouse

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?

• Today’s guest is Melissa McMahan, veteran homeschool mom of 2 graduates and 3 still at home, and long-time follower of AmblesideOnline
• How Melissa first heard about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy
• How Melissa came to start using the AmblesideOnline curriculum
• What was it like thinking about getting your children ready for college?
• Did having a Charlotte Mason hinder your daughters from getting a solid science foundation?
• Has narration sufficiently prepared your students for college writing?
• How learning to manage time at home helps students prepare for college and independence
• Other tips for preparing high school homeschoolers for college

School Education by Charlotte Mason

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Melissa’s Instagram

Melissa’s Youtube

…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating, summarising, doing all those things for children which they are born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and digest at his leisure.

• Today’s guest is Megan Hoyt, veteran homeschooling mom, musician and author
• Megan tells how she picked up her love of music from her parents and passed it on to her own
• What is the overall theme of A Touch of the Infinite?
• What are some of the misconceptions you think people have about Charlotte Mason and music education?
• What did music education look like in your own homeschool?
• How Megan wrote A Touch of the Infinite and what is in the book
• How did you start writing children’s books?

Bartali’s Bicycle by Megan Hoyt

The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul

Hidegard’s Gift by Megan Hoyt

A Touch of the Infinite by Megan Hoyt

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Megan’s Website

Megan’s Facebook

Megan’s Instagram

Megan’s Twitter

Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing.

• Today’s guest is Alanna Hendon, homeschooling mom of 6, 5 of whom are boys
• How Alanna came to learn about the Charlotte Mason philosophy
• The lasting and eternal value of a Charlotte Mason education
• How would you respond to the criticism that Charlotte Mason is too feminine for educating boys?
• Approaching poetry with boys
• What other elements of a CM education have had the most impact on your home?
• How does Charlotte’s emphasis on the knowledge of God and encouragement of religious habits encourage boys in their own spiritual walk?

AmblesideOnline

Consider This by Karen Glass

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Classic Poems for Boys

The Poet’s Corner narr. by John Lithgow

Creativity by John Cleese

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Alanna’s Instagram

Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible––even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

• Today’s guest is Timilyn Downey, former public school teacher and home schooling mother
• How Timilyn first learned about Charlotte Mason
• How Timilyn finally chose to homeschool her sons
• What role Timilyn’s husband plays in their education
• How do you respond to criticism about older books not being relevant
• Why it is so important to understand the philosophy behind educational methods
• Why Timilyn believe fiction and fairy tales are so crucial

Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins

Morning Time by Cindy Rollins

For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Consider This by Karen Glass

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stephenson

Koshka’s Tales by James Mayhew

A Study of English Romanticism by Northrop Frye

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century by C. S. Lewis

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram