A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast Liz Cottrill, Emily Kiser and Nicole Williams

There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.


"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)

"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)

"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)


Beauty & Truth Math

Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?

Episode 182: Visualization

Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum

Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books

ADE's Patreon Community

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need.


Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series (Audiobook)

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard


Awaken Living Books Conference

Episode 276: ADE Book Discussion: Vanity Fair

ADE's Patreon Community

As we near the end of this season-long discussion on "Trusting the Method" we turn our attention to the curriculum itself. How can we choose curriculum that Trusts Charlotte Mason's Method? How can we evaluate whether a resource or curriculum follows the method in part or whole? How do we decide if we even *want* to trust the method with our curriculum?


"N.B.1 In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able, but more work must be expected from I A." (All P.U.S. Programmes)


Arabella Buckley's Eyes and No-Eyes Series Here and Here

Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics


Beauty & Truth Math

Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?

Charlotte Mason's Curriculum Programmes

Episode 70: CM Purists

Visual Latin

ADE's Teacher Helps

Episode 6: Living Books

Episode 7: Recognizing Living Books

Episode 8: Narration 2.0

Episode 3: The Role of the Teacher

Episode 5: The Power of Connection

ADE's Episodes by Topic

Charlotte Mason's Short Synopsis:

Points 1-4   Points 5-8   Points 9-12   Points 13-15   Points 16-19   Point 20
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This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, as she prepares to graduate her oldest student this spring, Morgan Conner joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. After jumping from one curriculum to the next, once Morgan discovered Charlotte Mason, she never looked back, but that doesn't mean it has always been easy. You will glean much from Morgan's vulnerability and honesty as she describes overcoming her perfectionistic tendencies and learned to trust the Lord with even the smallest details with her neurodiverse students.


For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen


Q&A about Nature Walks

Podcast Episode on Forecasting

Forecasting Teacher Training Workshop

Morgan's episode on Reading Charlotte Mason's Volumes

Morgan's episode on Planning Physical Geography Lessons

ADE's Patreon Community

Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 2, 2024, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to contribute what they had been taught by William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair. If you have read the book, you will revel in the myriad messages this book conveyed to us all, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.
 


Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray


Talkbox.mom

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, Jami Hurt, mom of two homeschool graduates tells us about her experience with Charlotte Mason Homeschooling, and the joys she is witnessing with her boys who have now launched their own lives in young adulthood.



For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard


ADE's Patreon Community