The following is excerpted and adapted with permission from A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason’s Timeless Educational Ideas (Simple Pleasures Press, 2015).

Over the years, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had newbie homeschooling moms cry on my shoulder about all the myriads of choices available for home education curriculum and supplies.

“We’re just a struggling single income family! We can’t afford all this awesome sounding stuff! But I want to give my children a rich and wonderful educational experience! What do I do?” Continue reading →

Excerpt from Habits: The Mother’s Secret to Success, by Charlotte Mason

July 1, 2015August 5, 2016Leave a comment

The following excerpt is from the book, Habits: The Mother’s Secret to Success, by Charlotte Mason: a compilation of Mason’s writings on the topic of habit formation in children.

We Think as We are Accustomed to Think

How does this bear on the practical work of bringing up children? In this way. We think, as we are accustomed to think; ideas come and go and carry on a ceaseless traffic in the rut— let us call it—you have made for them in the very nerve substance of the brain. You do not deliberately intend to think these thoughts; you may, indeed, object strongly to the line they are taking (two ‘trains’ of thought going on at one and the same time!), and objecting, you may be able to barricade the way, to put up ‘No Road’ in big letters, and to compel the busy populace of the brain-world to take another route. Continue reading →

Excerpt from His Dominion (Vol. 2 – The Saviour of the World)

June 27, 2015August 5, 2016Leave a comment

The following is excerpted from The Saviour of the World – Volume Two – His Dominion, by Charlotte Mason.

“Our Father”

Hallow in my vain heart Thy holy Name,
Hallow in my dear home Thy tender Name,
Hallow in all Thy church Thy blessed Name,
Hallow throughout the world Thy mighty Name,
Our Father! Continue reading →

Excerpt from The Holy Infancy

June 18, 2015August 5, 2016Leave a comment

Excerpted from The Holy Infancy (The Saviour of the World – Vol. 1)
by Charlotte M. Mason
Part of an epic six volume set of poetry on the life of Christ.

Jesus in the Wilderness

Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned
From Jordan, and straightway the Spirit driveth
Him forth to the wilderness. For forty days
There was he tempted of Satan, and nothing ate:
And He was with the wild beasts all the nights. Continue reading →

NEW RELEASE! The Saviour of the World – Vol. 1 – The Holy Infancy

June 16, 2015July 11, 2015Leave a comment

The Saviour of the World – Vol. 1 – The Holy Infancy

Author: Charlotte Mason
Released: June 16, 2015
Paperback: 150 pages
ISBN-10: 1514359790
ISBN-13: 978-1514359792
List Price: $7.99

(Reprint of a title originally published in 1907.)

To order your copy of The Holy Infancy via Amazon.com, simply click on the book cover’s image or click here.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Charlotte Mason is known today as a British educationalist from the early 1900’s whose ideas and philosophies are currently being rediscovered by modern day home schools and private schools throughout the world. Many of Mason’s modern readers may be unaware of her devout spiritual life and her deeply moving poetry. This is the first volume of a six-volume set of Mason’s poetic writings on the life of Christ.

This volume will appeal to Mason’s current fans, to Christians of many persuasions, and to anyone who enjoys reading epic and/or religious poetry. Continue reading →