S3E41: Homeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason
10/13/22 • 31 min
- Today’s guest is Yolanda Mason, wife and homeschooling mother of 4, founder of the Heritage Learning Center in Charlotte, NC
- How Yolanda first heard about Charlotte Mason
- Why and how she started the Heritage Learning Center
- What is the value of a homeschool community like this?
- How narration can be improved in a group
- What the learning goals look like in community
- What a typical day looks like in Yolanda’s homeschool
If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents.
Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 33-34 Books and Links Mentioned: Find Cindy:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
- Today’s guest is Yolanda Mason, wife and homeschooling mother of 4, founder of the Heritage Learning Center in Charlotte, NC
- How Yolanda first heard about Charlotte Mason
- Why and how she started the Heritage Learning Center
- What is the value of a homeschool community like this?
- How narration can be improved in a group
- What the learning goals look like in community
- What a typical day looks like in Yolanda’s homeschool
If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents.
Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 33-34 Books and Links Mentioned: Find Cindy:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Previous Episode
S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”
Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on which our curriculum turns.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 273 Show Summary:- Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
- Before getting to main the subject matter, Donna-Jean gives homeschooling moms a little encouragement and exhortation
- How This Country of Ours was chosen as a history spine for AmblesideOnline
- Why Donna-Jean decided to expand and update the book
- How Donna-Jean annotated, expanded and updated This Country of Ours
- What she hopes this new version accomplishes
It is never too late to mend but we may not delay to offer such a liberal and generous diet of History to every child in the country as shall give weight to his decisions, consideration to his actions and stability to his conduct; that stability, the lack of which has plunged us into many a stormy sea of unrest.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 179 Books and Links Mentioned:Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
This Country of Ours, Vol.1 by H.E. Marshall: Annotated, Expanded and Updated by Donna-Jean Breckenridge
A Reasoned Patriotism Webinar with Dawn Duran
Find Cindy and Donna-Jean:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Next Episode
S3E42: Simply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer
Children learn to grow.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary:- Today’s guest is Sonya Shafer is a veteran homeschool mom of 4 daughters as well as a popular author and speaker and co-founder of Simply Charlotte Mason
- How Sonya first discovered Charlotte Mason
- How Sonya and her friend Karen Smith started Simply Charlotte Mason
- How Simply Charlotte Mason grew over time to cover a complete curriculum
- Why it is important for parents to have encouragement and support in home educating
- How people can pick and choose SCM resources that work together for a full course of study for the whole family
- A little about the Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series
- How Sonya has homeschooled her special needs daughter
A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola
Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Laying Down the Rails by Sonya Shafer
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Range by David Epstein
Plato’s Lemonade Stand by Tom Morris
Margin by Richard Swenson, M.D.
Know and Tell by Karen Glass
Find Cindy and Sonya:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
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