Spaces to Think No. 10
The destiny of the child is ruled by his parents, because they have the virgin soil all to themselves. The first sowing must be at their hands, or at the hands of such as they choose to depute. What do…
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SPACES TO THINK NO. 9
We are all mere creatures of habit. We think our accustomed thoughts, make our usual small talk, go through the trivial round, the common task, without any self-determining effort of will at all. If it were not so––if we had…
SPACES TO THINK NO. 8 GETTING OUTSIDE
“Never be within doors when you can rightly be without. Besides, the gain of an hour or two in the open air, there is this to be considered: meals taken al fresco are usually joyous… All the time, too, the children are…
SPACES TO THINK NO. 7
A Charlotte Mason Commonplace Book and questions to ponder. For the right use of the programmes two things are necessary—solitude and independence. Children must have these….Miss Mason devises time-tables which cover such reasonable hours as to leave time over…
SPACES TO THINK NO. 6
“Habit a Delight in itself. …the forming of habits in the children is no laborious task, for the reward goes hand in hand with the labour; so much so, that it is like the laying out of a penny with…
SPACES TO THINK NO. 5
“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! If she would only have courage to let everything go…
Spaces to Think No. 4
For our Spaces to Think post, I am sharing a quote from Volume 1 that I have been pondering time and again this week. For my children, yes, but even more for myself. I hope you find it helpful too!…
Spaces to Think: No. 3
This week our “Space to Think” Quote comes from the beginning of Volume 1: “Mothers owe a ‘thinking love’ to their Children.––‘The mother is qualified,” says Pestalozzi, “and qualified by the Creator Himself, to become the principal agent in the…
Spaces to Think No. 2
Today’s quote comes to us from Charlotte Mason’s Volume 6. I have been pondering it since Kerry Forney shared the quote to a group of us in Philadelphia at our workshop, Learning How to Live!. But our fault, our exceeding…
Spaces to Think
On Fridays, we plan to share with you quotes from Charlotte Mason that we’ve been pondering over the past week. For now, we’re calling these posts, “Spaces to Think.” We hope they will give you space in your full day…
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