Approaches To Homeschooling: Charlotte Mason Method

By Sandra

If your first impression of the Charlotte Mason method was that it’s the “tea cups and cozies” approach to homeschooling, you wouldn’t be alone. But if you’ve yet to delve beneath the Victorian illustrations and tea time references associated with this style, you may have constructed your opinion on mere twaddle, rather than on the substantive pillars of the time-tested philosophy.

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Approaches To Homeschooling: The Classical Style

By Sandra

The Classical Style of homeschooling engages children developmentally in three stages. This is known as the Trivium, and is comprised of memorization, argumentation, and self-expression (The Well-Trained Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer). Classical Style uses language and history to develop a child’s curiosity. It steers away from the use of video curriculum.

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Doors And Windows: Access To The Homeschool Blessing

By: Sandra

Me? Homeschool? “Why on earth would a person want to homeschool?” That’s what I used to wonder. It’s a fair question. I can’t say that it’s something I used to dream of doing. I’m not sure anyone really dreamed of homeschooling in life before children. Ha! Can you imagine? But something happens along the way. A door of opportunity opens. And we, as parents, are positioned to recognize it...if our vision is sharp...and our eyes are not dulled from thinking of the impossibilities.

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