• On The New Mason Jar podcast this week, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Denise Gaskins, veteran homeschool mom of five and math coach
• How Denise first learned about Charlotte Mason
• What is the foundation of mathematics in Charlotte Mason's educational philosophy?
• What Denise's mathematics background is and how she taught math with her own children
• How do captain ideas apply to the subject of mathematics?
• What can parents do when we feel ill-equipped to teach math in a CM way?
• How can we bring curiosity to our mathematics exercises?
• How to bring the habit of attention to math through playful exploration

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• Today on The New Mason Jar podcast, Cindy and Dawn talk with returning guest, Kay Pelham, veteran homeschool mom, piano teacher, and instructor of “Story, Rhyme, and Song”
• How Kay started teaching classes for other homeschool children
• Why it is so important for Kay to pass on the Charlotte Mason principles to other parents
• What Kay’s classes are like and why she incorporates nursery rhymes and folk songs
• What are some of Kay’s favorites from each category of story, rhyme, and song?
• What has been the response to Kay’s classes?

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• This week we are pleased to bring you another remix episode from Season 1, this time with guest Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp, daughter of Lynn Bruce and an AmblesideOnline graduate
• How Caitlin came to embrace Charlotte Mason's methods as an adult and foster parent
• What Caitlin remembers most about her homeschool and growing up experience
• What subjects were Caitlin's nemeses in school
• How narration prepared Caitlin so well for college
• How growing up with a Charlotte Mason education informed Caitlin's family life today
• A few of Caitlin's favorite books of all time

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• This week we bring you a special re-air of an episode from Season 1 with guest Lynn Bruce, a founding member of AmblesideOnline Advisory. Lynn has now gone to be with the Lord, so we share this episode in honor of her memory and with gratitude for her friendship and wisdom.
• How Lynn learned about Charlotte Mason and become interested in her philosophy
• Practical ideas from Lynn about how to have a positive homeschool experience
  • Making the most of working on your own schedule and keeping it in sight
  • Practicing the routine before starting the school year
  • Working on the habit of attention before school started
  • Having mutual respect as a foundation
  • Being more aware of a child’s physical state
  • Doing morning time with prayer, singing, and the “riches”

To view full show notes with all links and books mentioned, as well as how to connect with our hosts, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/090/.

• Welcome to this special Q&A episode recorded live with Cindy's 2024 Summer Discipleship group
• In this episode we hear questions from participants and answers from Cindy Rollins, Dawn Duran, and Jeannette Tulis
• Lisa asks, "What about summers? Should we work hard to give our kids a 'real' summer break?"
• Tanya asks, "What kinds of books are best for the very young and are not considered twaddle?"
• Ellie asks, "How do I know how high is too high of a reading level for reading aloud? What can we do when children seem not to be engaging with a book?"
• Arlene asks, "How can we approach art study with children when the subject in the painting is scantily clad or nude?"
• Gretchen asks, "What advice do you have for those trying to balance pursuing knowledge for ourselves with trying to help our students earn the credits they need to go on to higher education?"

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It is not for nothing that the old painters, however diverse their ideas in other matters, all fixed upon one quality as proper to the pattern Mother. The Madonna, no matter out of whose canvas she looks at you, is always serene. This is a great truth, and we should do well to hang our walls with the Madonnas of all the early Masters if the lesson, taught through the eye, would reach with calming influence to the heart.

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• On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with Charlotte Mason homeschooling mom of three boys, Jess Smith
• How Jess first heard about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy
• How did Jess and her friends come to start a co-op using Mason’s methods?
• Why a small co-op of just two families can still be a great fit
• How Jess kept their focus on the principles
• Some ways to cover many subjects without burdening families
• How to deal with conflict in a group setting

One thesis, which is, perhaps, new, that Education is the Science of Relations, appears to me to solve the question of curricula, as showing that the object of education is to put a child in living touch as much as may be of the life of Nature and of thought. Add to this one or two keys to self knowledge, and the educated youth goes forth with some idea of self management, with some pursuits, and many vital interests.

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Almighty God, Heavenly Father, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love whatever is just and true and good, following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer for the Care of Children, The Book of Common Prayer, p. 829

• We kick off this new season of The New Mason Jar with a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with homeschool friends April Weyland and Anna Whiteside
• How Anna and April first found out about Charlotte Mason
• How the transition to a Charlotte Mason curriculum worked for Anna
• Why April decided it was time for them to leave their old coop and start using CM principles
• How Anna started her own CM coop with a few more like-minded families
• How April tried to keep the curriculum challenging while balancing learning difficulties
• Anna’s tips on carrying over these ideas into a coop setting that isn’t strictly Charlotte Mason

No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it: let us have
courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the
amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal
and digest at his leisure.

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But education should be a science of proportion, and any one
subject that assumes undue importance does so at the expense
of other subjects which a child’s mind should deal with.

• This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with homeschooling mom of 2 about using Morning Time in a local retirement home
• How Tiffany first came to know the Lord and also how she found out about Charlotte Mason
• How Tiffany started taking her children with her to do Morning Time at a local nursing home
• What are some of the fruits Tiffany has seen from this experience?
• What Tiffany includes in her morning time with the residents
• How can other homeschool families start this as a ministry in their own communities?
• What are some other areas in which families could minister to people through morning time?

Shall every man have all the bliss
That is, by right of fitness, his?
Is Vision for all sons of men?
Shall peoples walk with God again?

But, oh, the head is sick, the heart
Too faint to choose the righteous part!
Shall the Messiah purge the whole,
And animate each sinking soul?

And shall He in His power go forth?
From east and west, from south and north,
Shall men flock round Him with desire,
Soliciting His purging fire?

How wonderful Thy counsels, Lord
Thy ways past finding out, Thy word,
Quick and compelling, searcheth out
Just means to bring high ends about!

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The Chief Thing we have to do––To bring the human race, family by family, child by child, out of the savage and inhuman desolation where He is not, into the light and warmth and comfort of the presence of God, is, no doubt, the chief thing we have to do in the world. And this individual work with each child, being the most momentous work in the world, is put into the hands of the wisest, most loving, disciplined, and divinely instructed of human beings. Be ye perfect as your Father is perfect, is the perfection of parenthood, perhaps to be attained in its fulness only through parenthood. There are mistaken parents, ignorant parents, a few indifferent parents; even, as one in a thousand, callous parents; but the good that is done upon the earth is done, under God, by parents, whether directly or indirectly.