A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

This month's Charlotte Mason podcast question for us is asked so often in so many forms that the entire episode is devoted to it. Multiple questions are summed up in "Am I failing? What if I'm not doing things perfectly, not doing it all, leaving out subjects, don't know what I'm doing, can't figure it all out, am avoiding subjects...should I give up?" Emily, Liz and Nicole share Miss Mason's coun...

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode  is an interview with a father. Every home has special challenges and Jonathon Landell's particular one is that of being a single father teaching his children himself. He shares how this method has changed his attitude toward education and children, has helped him with his challenges, and has brought special rewards.

Nature study is a critical part of the Charlotte Mason feast. This podcast episode is an interview with Nicole Handfield and her honest and inspiring testimony of the benefits to a mom when she takes up a nature journal herself.

Charlotte Mason referred to "slipshod" habits in reading. This podcast episode describes what she meant. Nothing is more important than reading in a literature-rich education, but there is a lot of reading habit formation that must occur between being a decoder and being a beautiful reader.

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is a special edition of our monthly Q&A. In March, 2018, down in the deep south, Art Middlekauff, Richele Baburina, Nicole, Emily, and Liz gathered with parents from across the country for the Charlotte Mason Soiree annual retreat. Questions were collected from the attendees and addressed to these five speakers and recorded live.

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode begins a new monthly series of interviewing families from all walks of life who are implementing her method. Nicole interviews Patty Sommer, a missionary in Ghana, Africa, about her CM journey, special challenges, and beautiful benefits. Every family is unique, but Miss Mason's principles and practices fit each one.

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode addresses the teaching of foreign language. Becca Buslovich tackles commonly asked questions, shares resources, and inspires us to make our foreign language lessons effective and delightful.  

This weeks Charlotte Mason podcast episode is all about our children's involvement with books. We have interviewed the children to hear their first hand reasons for why they like the books they like. Enjoy listening and getting ready for a new school year.

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason podcast presents another immersion lesson in this episode. Richele Baburina, author of "Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching" and math curriculum being produced by Simply Charlotte Mason, is the teacher and Nicole Williams her student in an early algebra lesson. Enjoy the process of a full lesson as well as discussion of some of the ways to make alg...

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is a live Shakespeare lesson. Open your own copy of Coriolanus if you wish and listen and follow along with Emily, Liz, and Nicole as they conduct a lesson and have a brief discussion of some of the teacher's concerns in Shakespeare lessons.

This Charlotte Mason podcast demonstrates a form II French lesson. Listen to how grammar and narration are incorporated. Find accompanying pictures on the website to help you follow along.

This week's Charlotte Mason podcast is a recorded nature walk with Nicole Williams and seven-year-old Henry, Liz's grandson. Tag along and listen as they explore Henry's backyard on a cold March afternoon.  

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is another immersion lesson experience. Nicole Williams teaches seven-year-old Henry two lessons in this episode:  first a nature lore lesson, then guids him an object lesson.

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode concerns an important pursuit in education outside of "school" lessons: scouting. Emily, Nicole, and Liz discuss how scouting became part of the child's experience in the P.N.E.U. and what possibilities it holds for children in our century.

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is an immersion lesson for second and third grade literature. Specifically, this is the one literature book Mason never diverted from: Pilgrim's Progress.

Charlotte Mason began foreign language study the first year of school and this podcast is a demonstration of two kinds of lessons in the First Form (first through third grade). Becca Buslovich steps in as the teacher in this immersion lesson, one who is not a native speaker or expert in French herself, to encourage parents who have little or no proficiency to equip themselves to teach their childr...

This Charlotte Mason podcast is the first in our summer series of immersion lessons. Listen in while Emily teaches a Bible lesson and Liz and Nicole narrate in a simulated lesson, and afterward as they discuss some particulars relevant to Bible lessons for elementary children.

This podcast episode addresses listener questions on applying the philosophy and method of Charlotte Mason. When do we teach typing? How to form good habits when disorder reigns? What to do with an only child? are today's discussion questions.

This Charlotte Mason education podcast episode is a group interview with a most significant and influential person in a child's life:  the fathers. Emily's husband, Jono Kiser, discusses with four dads concerning their understanding, involvement, and role in the education of their children.

Math is a worrisome subject for many Charlotte Mason educators. Wishing to stay true to Mason's guiding principles and up to date with current knowledge, many hesitate when choosing a curriculum. This is a candid conversation with Richele Baburina, who knows Mason's approach to mathematics, the fears modern educators face, and is knowledgeable about the latest scientific research regarding math ed...

Charlotte Mason knew a child's education was secured once he entered into "living books," the heart of her educational method, and the wellspring of ideas to feed the minds of persons. This  week's podcast episode is a candid conversation about what led Emily and Liz to begin Living Books Library. Enjoy the history and be inspired to build your own collection as they rhapsodize on their favorite s...

Charlotte Mason offered guidance on practical issues of all kinds and A Delectable Education's Q&A podcast episodes are our attempt to apply her wisdom to your own questions of understanding and practice. This week: dealing with the public library, when mother has special learning difficulties, and when a child should officially begin formal lessons are the particular questions addressed.

Today's Charlotte Mason podcast episode is an interview with Min Hwang, a homeschooling mom who has taken her enthusiasm for and knowledge of the Charlotte Mason method outside her own homeschooling circle to parents in traditional educational settings. You will be inspired to hear how she  shares the beauty of Ms. Mason's simple truths with parents in all walks of life that have children in publi...

A special interview from A Delectable Education: how does a Charlotte Mason education work when your child has dyslexia? Mitchell Williams, son of ADE's Nicole Williams, shares his experience as a dyslexic child about to graduate from his CM homeschool years and head out into the world.

Charlotte Mason's method of education was taught over a hundred years ago and A Delectable Education's podcast this week reiterates its relevance for the twenty-first century educator and student. After an introduction by Emily, Liz, and Nicole stating their reasons for holding to Mason's philosophy, Art Middlekoff reads his own criteria for determining which new ideas and applications are authent...