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The Family is the Unit of the World
A generation ago, a great teacher amongst us never wearied of reiterating that in the Divine plan “the family is the unit of the nation“: not the individual, but the family. There is a great deal of...
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A Prince(ss) Raised by Peasants
A child in the midst — Charlotte Mason reiterates the child’s estate by alluding to Jesus’ words to his disciples. “And He took a child and set Him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him...
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Hindering the Children
Charlotte Mason says the most fatal way someone can despise a child is to overlook and make light of his natural relationship with the Almighty God. Suffer the little children to come unto Me, says...
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Conditions of Healthy Brain Activity
Nowhere does Charlotte Mason show her love and respect for children more than in her careful and studious instructions on how to create conditions for healthy brain activity. She begins with exercise,...
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Work, Rest, and Play
Charlotte Mason says it is just as important to give the brain periods of rest as well as good, hard work for it to do. She tells of how blood rushes to the organ(s) being used. While exercising or...
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The Brain
… the brain, or some portion of the brain, becomes exhausted when any given function has been exercised too long. The child has been doing sums for some time, and is getting unaccountably stupid: take...
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