However Imperfectly

Joy Cherrick
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However Imperfectly

Welcome to, However Imperfectly where homeschooling and homemaking intersect. This podcast is for the homeschool mom who desires to educate her children with a rich Charlotte Mason education and also has meals to put on the table and laundry to sort each day. I am your host, Joy Cherrick. I hope you find encouragement as we explore the ideas of Charlotte Mason in the context of our modern homes. Mason provides the principles for living and learning with our children that offers education unlike the one we received and a full life together. We don’t have time for the latest educational fad. We

  1. EP 03 Principle #3 Parents are in charge and children should do as they're told

    6 DAYS AGO

    EP 03 Principle #3 Parents are in charge and children should do as they're told

    In God’s wisdom He places children in… not daycare facilities, nor schools… He places them in families - the foundation of human society and the bedrock of human flourishing. The home is the best growing place for a child. It is here children learn good manners, right and wrong, and how to restrain the urge to wallop one’s brother. Parents are in charge. We didn’t come up with this. We know we are vastly under qualified to teach our children about the Righteousness of God, but someone must teach them and so the honor and duty falls on us. Because it is right.  Read on Substack and go through the reflection questions⁠ If you want to be effective with your Nature Study work, check out my ⁠Nature Study Hacking Guides⁠. Learn how to get outside and use those lovely nature journals. Sometimes I’m on ⁠Instagram here.⁠

    20 min
  2. EP 02 Principle #2 Good and evil nature of children

    SEP 27

    EP 02 Principle #2 Good and evil nature of children

    This is the most controversial of Mason's Principles. Join me as we look at what this principle is telling us about the natural laws of education, namely that there is good and evil in the world and what that means for moms and teachers of children being raised in the 21st Century. Mason wants mothers to understand the natural laws that affect our children and hinder or help our work as mothers so that we will joyfully fulfill our God-given role to guide and direct our them. Read on Substack and go through the reflection questions If you want to be effective with your Nature Study work, check out my Nature Study Hacking Guides. Learn how to get outside and use those lovely nature journals. Sometimes I’m on Instagram here.

    32 min
  3. EP 01 Principle #1 Children are Born Persons

    SEP 13

    EP 01 Principle #1 Children are Born Persons

    There’s nothing more humbling than holding a freshly born babe complete with those glorious first cries and skin so soft it feels like you are touching heaven itself. Looking at that face for the first time, seeing those baby rolls, and thinking about all the possibilities ahead for this dear one make those dawning moments touch the divine and help us to come into contact with the miraculous nature of human life. Motherhood begins with many hopes, there are some fears, to be sure, but we get the privilege of standing at the beginning of a new story, a new life, a new person and walking them through their childhood, helping them journey into adulthood and finally, Lord willing, we launch them into adulthood where we fully pass off the governance of their lives to the man or woman who must stand on their own, ready or not.  Read this post and grab the reflections questions that go with it here. *** If you want to be effective with your Nature Study work, check out my Nature Study Hacking Guides. Learn how to get outside and use those lovely nature journals.

    27 min
  4. Ep 00 A Masterly Mother's Homeschool Plan

    AUG 30

    Ep 00 A Masterly Mother's Homeschool Plan

    Welcome to Season #2 of the However Imperfectly Podcast. This season we will be diving into Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles because they help us see our children and our goals for their education clearly. Getting to know these principles encourages us to move from mechanically implementing booklists, checklists, and systems to educate our children and toward being fully alive to our own duties given by God to help our families thrive. Modern homeschool advice is generally about how to save time and energy so that homeschooling can be easier through open-and-go curriculums. What we need are not more tips and tricks, but guardrails to help us realize our freedom and limits as teachers not so that our life can be easier by doing less, but that we will know where to spend our time and energy so that our work will be effective, fruitful, and joyful. Read this post and grab the resources that go with this episode on However Imperfectly on Substack here.

    27 min
  5. EP 10 A Masterly Summer

    MAY 24

    EP 10 A Masterly Summer

    As summer beckons us with her long days, late nights, and leisurely ways, let’s pause to consider a few questions before it melts away and the new school year is before us. What is a person and how are they formed? How ought we spend our time this summer? How does this time form us? What do we owe to our children these summer days? What, before the Lord, should we consider before one day melts into the next with delicious rest and rejuvenation? Today we consider these questions and I also give links to the tools I use to keep our home humming for the summer months! Read over on Substack: (3) EP 10 A Masterly Summer - by Joy Cherrick (substack.com) Check out my Nature Study Hacking products to learn how to get outside and use a nature journal here: Nature Study Hacking – How to Get Outside and Use a Nature Journal

    20 min
  6. EP 09 Screen Free Guide to the Outdoor Life of Children

    MAY 10

    EP 09 Screen Free Guide to the Outdoor Life of Children

    The addictive pull of screens can become a perpetual whack-a-mole in a home seeking to cultivate a love for nature in their children. It's a game we'd rather not be playing with no end in sight. What's a mother to do? This episode comes with a gift. On the HoweverImperfectly Substack , I’ve added the Screen Free Get Outside Challenge for free subscribers. Over at the NatureStudyHacking.com shop you can purchase the Screen Free Guide to the Outdoor Life of Children. (Now ON SALE!) This guide includes reflection questions to help you think through your current atmosphere, discipline, and lifestyle to help you get outside with your children with purpose this summer. In addition, I’ve included questions about plants, animals and bugs to help you guide your children to be curious about God’s creation right outside your door.

    13 min

  7. APR 26

    EP 08 A Whole Day of Rest

    Rest is essential to human flourishing. Rest is both a gift and a human right that will not only help us enter into the good blessings God offers us spiritually and relationally but will restore our bodies from the labors of this life and allow us to flourish mind, body, and soul. My nature study support guides are available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠naturestudyhacking.com

    13 min
  8. EP 07 Learn to Love What Must Be Done| Interview with Mystie Winkler

    APR 12

    EP 07 Learn to Love What Must Be Done| Interview with Mystie Winkler

    Raising children is the best way to find out one’s weaknesses. Perhaps you thought you were a fairly good citizen. You always thought of others when taking turns at the post office and you never took more than your portion of ice cream at the birthday party. But having children seems to expose the lazy and selfish parts of ourselves. That’s why we need the help from others who’ve been there too and can help us navigate through the cultural sludge and learn to see our work as an act of worship.  We truly can learn to love the work that must be done. I’m pleased to share with you my interview with my homemaking mentor Mystie Winkler. She recently released her spectacular book, Simplified Organization where she helps us understand that the work we have to do is truly good work and that we can learn to love it. This interview and Mystie’s book wrap up our miniseries here on However Imperfectly about Routines That Bless. You will see that Mystie has also needed to work on her habits to weave peace and blessing into her home and we are confident that you can do the same in yours. Enjoy! Buy Mystie's Book here. Simply Convivial Membership - mentorship for homemakers: Simply Convivial | Stay at Home Mom | Homemaking Support Schole Sisters: read & listen - Scholé Sisters (scholesisters.com) Check out ⁠⁠⁠However Imperfectly on Substack⁠⁠⁠. My nature study support guides are available at ⁠⁠⁠naturestudyhacking.com Two Women Talking by a Gate Camille Corot

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Welcome to, However Imperfectly where homeschooling and homemaking intersect. This podcast is for the homeschool mom who desires to educate her children with a rich Charlotte Mason education and also has meals to put on the table and laundry to sort each day. I am your host, Joy Cherrick. I hope you find encouragement as we explore the ideas of Charlotte Mason in the context of our modern homes. Mason provides the principles for living and learning with our children that offers education unlike the one we received and a full life together. We don’t have time for the latest educational fad. We

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  • Creator
    Joy Cherrick
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Joy Cherrick
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    However Imperfectly

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