This website is dedicated to the educational philosophies of Charlotte Mason, a British educator from the last century. Her methods and philosophies have recently experienced a resurgence, especially among American homeschooling families. Her emphasis on children developing a lifetime love of learning was in stark contrast to the nearly anti-child climate of her time period.
Articles on this site — unless otherwise noted — are written by Deborah Taylor-Hough. Debi is the long-time editor of The Charlotte Mason Monthly eNewsletter and author of several bestselling books including Frugal Living for Dummies, the Frozen Assets cookbook series, and A Simple Choice: A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanity.
Be sure to visit Debi’s personal website for ordering information for her books and articles about simplifying daily life: TheSimpleMom.com
The Charlotte Mason Monthly email newsletter is currently on hiatus but will be returning to an email box near you in early September 2011. You can subscribe by sending an email to: join-cm-monthly@hub.thedollarstretcher.com
Regular updates are now being sent via this webpage’s Facebook page. Be sure to stop by and “Like” us! :-)
Note: Although no longer submitting new material to this website, a number of the founding articles were generously provided by popular CM author and speaker, Catherine Levison. Catherine now has her own website so you can still find her online. :-)
Good Morning!
I am also amazed to find sites like yours is out here, I love the concept of learning through literature! I was surprised to hear about the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling, I have been homeschooling my boys for 3+ years now. And I am always looking for new and more natural ways to teach them.
I also have a site that I was hoping that you could add to your resource page, it is called HomeschoolLiterature.com. HomeschoolLiterature.com is a website/blog for homeschoolers ABOUT homeschoolers. It focuses on children’s fiction with homeschoolers as the protagonist or at least in key roles in the story. Not only are there reviews of each of these books, but many of the pages include lessons plans and teaching supplements for creating a whole teaching “unit” out of the literature. In addition to the books and teaching resources, the site also includes author interviews and information about books written BY homeschoolers, too.
Michelle
HomeschoolLiterature.com – literature about homeschoolers.
Just because I started out as an “accidental homeschooler”, doesn’t mean I stayed that way!
Hi Ladies! I wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your site. I visit often and always find something I can use. I highlighted you two, and your site on my blog today in a post about bloggers I’m thankful for. So, THANK YOU!
Hi, Mary! Thanks so much for the kind posting on your blog. I think it’s important to express gratitude … it’s such a blessing to both parties (the one giving and the one receiving).
~Debi
Pingback: Charlotte Mason Blogs | Home School Toolbox