S6E77: Seeing the Big Picture with Heather Martin
02/29/24 • 53 min
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Three Questions for the Mother...She must ask herself Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? And, How should they learn it? If she takes the trouble to find a definite and thoughtful answer to each of these three queries, she will be in a position to direct her children’s studies; and will, at the same time, be surprised to find that three-fourths of the time and labour ordinarily spent by the child at his lessons is lost time and wasted energy.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 171 Show Summary:- On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn sit down to chat with veteran homeschool mom, Heather Martin about a wide variety of topics
- How and when Heather actually learned about Charlotte Mason after organically using many of her methods all along
- How getting a teaching certificate actually ensured Heather would choose to home educate instead
- Were there challenges specific to having only boys?
- What were some of the intentional things you did in your home to build your family culture?
- Some encouragement for moms regarding mathematics
- How Heather started local recitation gatherings with other homeschoolers
Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
Range by David Epstein
In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass
Find Cindy:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Three Questions for the Mother...She must ask herself Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? And, How should they learn it? If she takes the trouble to find a definite and thoughtful answer to each of these three queries, she will be in a position to direct her children’s studies; and will, at the same time, be surprised to find that three-fourths of the time and labour ordinarily spent by the child at his lessons is lost time and wasted energy.
Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 171 Show Summary:- On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn sit down to chat with veteran homeschool mom, Heather Martin about a wide variety of topics
- How and when Heather actually learned about Charlotte Mason after organically using many of her methods all along
- How getting a teaching certificate actually ensured Heather would choose to home educate instead
- Were there challenges specific to having only boys?
- What were some of the intentional things you did in your home to build your family culture?
- Some encouragement for moms regarding mathematics
- How Heather started local recitation gatherings with other homeschoolers
Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
Range by David Epstein
In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass
Find Cindy:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Previous Episode
S6E76: “Beyond Mere Motherhood” with Cindy and Dawn
No one knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education...
Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 26 Show Summary:- On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn sit down to chat about Cindy’s newest book, Beyond Mere Motherhood
- How this book came to be
- What Cindy hopes this book to be and who it is for
- What you can expect from each chapter of the book
- How this book is helping launch a new podcast series coming soon!
Toward a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
Beyond Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer
“Why the KJV?” by Lynn Bruce
Find Cindy and Dawn:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
Dawn’s A Reasoned Patriotism website
We allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and spiritual life of mothers, but teach them that the Divine Spirit has constant access to their spirit and is their continue Helper in all the interests, duties, and joys of life.
paraphrase of Charlotte Mason’s 20th PrincipleNext Episode
S6E78: Morning Time for Moms, Part 1, with Jami Marstall
The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of that which under the actions of the mind itself becomes knowledge. Nothing can stale its infinite variety; the heavens and the earth, the past, the present, and future, things great and things minute, nations and men, the universe, all are within the scope of the human intelligence.
Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 330 Show Summary:- On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn kick off a new series of the podcast, Morning Time for Moms, with our first guest in the series, Jami Marstall
- How Jami first came to hear about Charlotte Mason
- How much of AmblesideOnline’s curriculum Jami has personally read as the mother and teacher
- What practices Jami put in place to ensure she was growing in knowledge
- How the mother-teacher is the guide, philosopher, and friend
- What is the significance of the “spiritual octopus” quote from the intro?
- How can moms build a reading life in the busy seasons of life?
- What Jami is reading now and what some of her other activities are
Beyond Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
For the Family’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
The Idea of America by Gordon S. Wood
John Adams by David McCullough
The Universe Next Door by James Sire
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Lynn Bruce’s article on The Spiritual Octopus
S2E22: Charlotte Mason Through High School with Jami Marstall
Find Cindy and Dawn:Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
Dawn’s A Reasoned Patriotism website
What we are concerned with is the fact that we personally have relations with all that there is in the present, all that there has been in the past, and all that there will be in the future––with all above us and all about us––and that fullness of living, expansion, expression, and serviceableness, for each of us, depend upon how far we apprehend these relationships and how many of them we lay hold of.... Every [mother] is heir to an enormous patrimony, heir to all the ages, inheritor of all the present. The question is, what are the [educational] formalities necessary to put [her] in possession of that which is [hers]?
paraphrase of Charlotte Mason from School Education, pg. 186If you like this episode you’ll love
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