Thinking Love

Join Amy and Leah as they chat with Cindy Rollins about her new book,  Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love . The conversations roams from what morning time is, how it fits into a Charlotte Mason homeschool, how morning time cultivates a family culture, and even what to do when your children try to sabotage your plans! For full show-notes, visit https://thinkinglove.education/2021/11/04/morning-time/ ....

Charlotte Mason wrote that "music is a necessary part of education." While she recommended that students learn to sing and play an instrument, at the core of Charlotte Mason music learning is  enjoyment . That's right - the best thing we can do for our kids is to put on music and enjoy it with our kids. In this conversation, Amy and Leah talk through the three main points of Charlotte Mason music,...

In this episode of Thinking Love, we are joined by Dallas Nachtigall from Bestowing the Brush to talk about the art of teaching homeschool art. Dallas has thrown herself into researching art instruction in Charlotte Mason's schools and, as an artist herself, now helps homeschool moms bring art instruction into their homes. We had a great conversation about teaching art Charlotte Mason style and ho...

A homeschool schedule can help us bring our big picture ideas into daily life, but that doesn't mean it's easy. In fact, bridging the gap between our plans and our reality might be one of the most challenging parts of homeschooling. In this episode, Leah and Amy discuss the art of scheduling a Charlotte Mason homeschool. How do you make plans that flex and adapt when you get hit with a curveball,...

In this season of the Thinking Love Podcast, Amy and Leah are talking about homeschooling as an art, beginning with what Charlotte Mason means when she says that we need a  method , not a  system . Join us for a conversation about the temptations of system-type thinking (and where that shows up), where we might  want to use a system, and how to keep our homeschools making progress toward our long-...

We close out our wisdom season with a conversation with Min Hwang talking about why Charlotte Mason's view of humility wasn't entirely complete, and what we can do to gain knowledge without pride.  FInd out more about Life-Giving Motherhood (referral link). Register the Wise Beginnings Summit !

Let's discuss geography, what it looks like in our homeschools,  and how it can help us to have wisdom about the wider world. 

In the second part of our interview with Karen Glass, we discuss Mrs. Glass's preferred method of reading Charlotte Mason's volumes, the importance of seeking out her principles, and a word of wisdom for young homeschooling moms. 

We talked to Karen Glass about principles and why it's important to draw them out of Charlotte Mason's volumes. She also told us about her new project, which we're so excited for! 

How do wisdom, knowledge, and facts all fit together? How are the goals of public education and homeschooling different? 

Amy and Leah discuss Charlotte Mason's volumes, plus other books about the philosophy or that reflect it. 

Amy and Leah talk to Crystin Morris of Delightfully Feasting about Bible lessons and wisdom. 

In our Wisdom season, Amy and Leah discuss what wisdom is and how to pursue it in our homeschools. Our first episode addresses, "What is wisdom?" 

When our children learn to decode the words in front of them, they aren't necessarily readers...yet. What can we do to support them from reading with support to reading independently? 

What is mother culture? This is not actually a term that Charlotte Mason used in her volumes, but Amy and I are getting down to its roots and meaning in this episode. It means so much more than "self care." 

A shocking answer to this question: yes, your homeschool child can get behind, but we have to be careful to whom we compare them. 

We continued our chat with Leah Boden and talked about the practicalities of adding the riches to our homeschools. 

Amy and Leah talk with Leah Boden from A Modern Miss Mason about adding poetry, art, and music into our homeschools. 

What if the behavior problems we see coming up aren't from habit training? 

Here's the short truth: the curriculum you choose won't make or break your Charlotte Mason curriculum. 

Erika from Charlotte Mason City Living, discusses how to add in multicultural studies into a Charlotte Mason education, and explains why Charlotte Mason encouraged them more than a century ago. 

In this episode, we'll discuss a Parents' Review article on obedience. If you associate obedience with harsh, authoritarian parents, this episode might surprise you. 

Amy reads M. MacEacharn's Parents' Review article entitled Obedience. This article will be discussed in the final episode of season three.  

Amy and Leah talk not only about what a Charlotte Mason homeschool schedule entails, but the principles behind the schedule. 

Amy and Leah discuss a PNEU article about Dads and education, and share their experiences about involving their husbands in their homeschools.