The Charlotte Mason Show | A Homeschool Podcast

The average American child spends only 4-7 MINUTES outside every day in unstructured play. Charlotte Mason recommends 4 HOURS in outside activities daily. How can we bridge this gap? Ginny Yurich of 1000 Hours Outside offers practical wisdom and inspiration to help you make outside time a priority in your homeschool.

Family life may be said to be the test of Home Education, the great Problem that all parents are trying to solve, the training ground of each new generation--and as such it is one of the most comprehensive titles under which such an address as you ask me to give to-day, can be announced.

Because of Covid 19, most of America is having to navigate the waters of balancing homeschooling and work. Perhaps you are considering continuing to homeschool and wondering how to keep working. Or maybe you are currently homeschooling, but need to bring in extra income. Either way homeschooling and being a working mom don't have to be mutually exclusive. In this super practical episode, SarahRuth...

Julie discusses the practical applications of using a Charlotte Mason approach in high school, focusing on literary analysis and how to continue with narrations through the high school years.

  Julie talks about why homeschooling in high school can be so beneficial and covers questions that many parents have about homeschooling during this time. She discusses that the principles and methods don't change for the high school years but allow us to provide a feast of knowledge for our children.

You probably already do homeschool but you've also probably realized by now how insanely hard it is (or can be) so I've made you a list of a *few* more reasons why it's probably not a good idea. 

"A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him— And it was nothing more."   I think if Peter Bell had been a "P.N.E.U. child" the primrose would have been something more to him—because fairy stories would have formed part of his education. Fairy tales are of the greatest importance in the early education of both the imaginative and unimaginative child. In the case of the first, they su...

This Spring marks 14 years since I felt the soul-stirring to bring my oldest home from a transitional kindergarten into learning at home. My homeschool journey has not been a neat and tidy trip down an educational highway, but more like a spontaneous trip out West without a map or money on back roads in a beat-up VW bus. I have no perfect, prescribed plan to offer.

Life as a homeschooler isn't what I imagined it would be all those years ago. I suppose it takes a few years and enough failures to be humble enough to see the simplest lessons. If I were younger and reading my own words today, I'd still be filled with all the hope and joy of youth, and also the sometimes blinding idealism that sweeps reality far, far away, and embraces "what might be," or "what I...

In this podcast, Julie reads some Parent's Review Articles and offers some advice about what to do during the summer holidays.

The covid_19 crisis is unprecedented in our lifetime, and we all have different ways of surviving. I want to share 5 ideas that are helping me, and I hope they encourage you as well.

Charlotte Mason wrote that the traditional methods of teaching reading in her day were "one of the many ways in which children are needlessly and cruelly oppressed," and were "an abuse of his intelligence." What were the methods she so vehemently spoke out against? Unfortunately, many of them are still used to teach reading today. In her volumes, Miss Mason outlined steps in a reading lesson that...

I get it. I've been there too. We have great intentions about doing The Peaceful Preschool four days a week, but then the baby gets sick, or we get overwhelmed with helping the first-grade student with their work, and it all falls apart. But there is a solution to this spiral of intention versus follow-through, and it's called loop scheduling.

Are you feeling burnt out in homeschooling? Charlotte Mason says, " "If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!" In this episode, Julie Ross and Jennifer Pepito, founder of Peaceful Press, discuss the idea of playful creativity and its role in home education.  You will be ins...

How a Homeschool Crisis Restored My Sanity   A couple of years ago   I had a panic attack about homeschooling. A storm of uncertainty and despair rained down on me. Doubts began to take over my thoughts. Fear began to paralyze me.

In this podcast, Julie talks with Leah Boden about how she came to the simplicity of Charlotte Mason's methods, ways to face the challenges of comparing your homeschool to others and feeling overwhelmed, and the importance of being patient to see the fruit of a CM education

Brandy Gleason is a mom of 8 and Grammy to 3. She has been homeschooling for 22 years and offers some advice on how to enjoy the outdoors with your kids. So often you can't get them outside, why is that? Brandy shares her top 3 tips to get your family outside … Priority, Preparation, Planning.

Episode 21: Homeschooling in a Crisis Description: In this podcast, Julie talks with fellow CM homeschooler Shay Kemp about homeschooling in times of crisis, not only with the coronavirus issues our world is facing now, but also in personal times of crisis such as moving, having a new baby, etc. Using the Charlotte Mason motto, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline and a life," they discuss ho...

In this podcast, Julie talks with fellow CM homeschooler Shay Kemp about homeschooling in times of crisis, not only with the coronavirus issues our world is facing now, but also in personal times of crisis such as moving, having a new baby, etc. Using the Charlotte Mason motto, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline and a life," they discuss how each of these areas can be addressed in order to...

Description: Listen in to today's audioblog as Jenny Underwood reads her encouraging blog post on five ways to love being a homeschool mama.  These points can help you to have a happier home on your homeschooling journey.