AfterCast: An Audio Companion for the Classical, Charlotte Mason Mama
For many years now, Afterthoughts has been a sort of intellectual watering hole for classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas. At Afterthoughts, we have spent over a decade nourishing our minds on theology, educational philosophy, and a million other books and subjects thrown in – all the while bringing these ideas into a direct collision course with our daily lives. As an audio companion, this podcast is a chance to hear Afterthoughts blog posts rather than read them. Couple that with some bonus content focused on books and interviews, and you've got AfterCast. Go to afterthoughtsblog.net to learn more.
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Today is the FINAL installment of this Learning How to Live Series -- which makes this the END of Season 4! What I tried to do, and hope I accomplished, was take the categories we've been discussing these past few weeks and show how they play out in my own life – not because the way I do it is the one right way, but simply because it's always useful to have an example of how this might work. I hope you find it helpful as we look at...
Today is NOT just a review. Yes, we walk through everything we've learned over this huge series and remind ourselves of the amazingly numerous possibilities. But the point isn't the review – the point is to think of these as categories and then discover what similar options exist for us today. I think you'll find some real gems to help keep you learning in the midst of your busy days.
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Today we begin to end our Learning How to Live series. We're heading toward application. Before we get too practical, we need to discuss the WHY. Why keep learning? There are some good reasons to learn and some bad or insufficient reasons to learn, and it takes wisdom to know the difference. Listen up for an exploration of the heart of self-education.
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Today we continue with our Learning How to Live series. Up until this point, we've mostly talked about things that can be done privately – reading books and magazines and such. This time, we take a look at communal activities like meetings and conferences. There's some information here that you won't want to miss!
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Today we continue with our Learning How to Live series by discussing magazines and the part they played in the education of Charlotte Mason's parents and teachers. Do you think magazines can play a part today? Is there anything else that might be similar? Listen up to find out!
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Today, we take a look at something called Mother Culture. If you found the idea of a Mothers' Education Course, which we talked about in Episodes 27 and 28, overwhelming, this is the solution for you. Make sure you listen to the end so you hear all about the freebie tracker I offer that makes Mother Culture even more fun.
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To get your Mother Culture Habit Tracker, ...
Today, I'm interrupting our Charlotte Mason series to bring you this season's special conversation. Brittney McGann is back with me today; I hope you recognize her from last season. Brittney has been studying Charlotte Mason for over seven years. Mason's philosophy embodies all the things Brittney loved about her own upbringing and everything she would have wished for in her education, had she known it was possible. Brittney hoste...
Today's episode is our second on Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course. If you recall, last episode we talked about the HISTORY of the course. This time, we're looking at the content of the course and also asking a few questions about what it'd look like to build a course for today's mothers.
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Are you ready to take a look at Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course? Before we talk content, we need to know our history, and I think you'll find this lesson particularly interesting.
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Today's episode is super short, but still worth hearing. We briefly speculate on what lectures at Miss mason's college might have contained, and generally take one last look around at life at Ambleside.
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In today's installment of our Learning How To Live series, we take a close look at what it was like for the students who went to Ambleside and studied under Charlotte Mason. Have you ever wondered what it was like for a governess at the training school? Stay tuned to find out!
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Today, we're taking a look at Charlotte Mason's personal habits. She was quite the well-read lady, and it turns out this didn't happen by accident. Let's check out what Miss Mason did and think about how we can make better choices with our time.
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Welcome to Season 4 of AfterCast! I'm so glad you're here! Today, we're kicking off a new series of episodes. This whole season is going to have one focus: continuing our education as homeschool teachers. To think about that, we're going to discuss all the ways Charlotte Mason and her comrades continued their educations.
But first, we need to start at the beginning: what does it mean to have the heart of Charlotte Mason teacher? Ho...
For this final episode of the season, we're tackling some tough questions: why are names like classical education and great conversation so difficult to define? Is Charlotte Mason for everyone? And what does it mean to duplicate a tradition in a living way?
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In a Charlotte Mason education, there is no specialization. All students are to study all subjects. The question is WHY? Today, we're going to take a look at some possible reasons using Socrates, Aristotle, MBTI, and some lesson Miss Mason teaches us in her book Formation of Character.
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Today's episode is a crossover episode with the Charlotte Mason Poetry Podcast, and I'm chatting with CMP's very own Brittney McGann! Brittney and I read the book Bandersnatch together – it was an excellent read (I highly recommend it) and a great place to start for a conversation about conflict in community.
Join us today as we learn lessons from how the Inklings succeeded … and also failed ... and learn from them about building a...
So, you figured out something is wrong with your homeschool. Good. The question is what to do next. A lot of us find it paralyzing to discover our imperfections. Today, we're devising an action plan to get moving.
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Charlotte Mason prescribe a "broad and generous education" for her students. For a variety of reasons, this can be a daunting task. Today, we're taking a look at one of the biggest obstacles to implementing this sort of education: OURSELVES.
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If you're thinking that because Charlotte Mason prescribed short lessons, this means your high schooler should only do 20 minutes of math, you're thinking wrong! Today, we're doing a deep dive into what we mean when we say "short lessons."
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It's easy to say that our children should read hard books, but what does that look like in practice? Do we just throw them into the deep end and hope for the best? No! There's actually a lot we can do to help, which is our topic for today.
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