This is a post I’ve found extremely on www.Secularhomeschool.com helpful written by Shiela that I wanted to keep on my blog as a reference. Charlotte Mason thought that the child was in “danger of receiving much teaching with little education.” I believe this was in part why she started her school and wrote down her [...]
I had written this response on a parenting forum and wanted to save it to later revisit this topic. I’ve been using Tweedlewink off/on now for 1 yr since Ethan was 2 yr.’s old. I never just show him an episode without further explaining things we learned through watching one 7 min. lesson. It usually takes [...]
I regretfully have forgotten which source this was obtained from since I had saved it long ago but I wanted to post it as a reference to CM’s principles. One of the major distinguishing characteristics of a Charlotte Mason curriculum is the time spent on each lesson. Mason stressed that lessons be no longer than [...]
There is a combination of different methods and curriculum I’ve been using with Ethan. Mostly anything that is interesting and is a few minutes in duration. We love a few things among each method from Charlotte Mason, Montessori, Doman, etc. Books I often refer back to & use are “The Well Trained Mind” by S. Bauer, [...]
Andrea H posted this: I use a variety of methods, here is a summary (somewhat ) of what I use as a guideline, but this is not literal: 1. Doman: heavily on the physical development and brain speed 2. Shichida: I recently studied him on line, don´t have the books yet, but I saw that I [...]
Here’s a very brief overview of a handful of Charlotte Mason’s most familiar ideas written by tatianna. TWADDLE: Twaddle is what parents and educators today might call “dumbed down” literature. It is serving your children intellectual happy meals, rather than healthy, substantive mind- and soul-building foods. Charlotte Mason advocated avoiding twaddle and feasting children’s hearts [...]
I’ve obtained this information from a parenting forum gathered/written by pupisek & other contributors and wanted to share it with you. I highly recommend Glenn Doman’s book “HOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR BABY’S INTELIGENCE”. It includes information from his other three books (How to teach your baby to read, How to teach your baby math and [...]
Here is an interesting article about Shichida Method written by Aileen Kawagoe. Shichida Method – What’s it All About? Dr Shichida in case you didn’t know, is the guru of right brain education in Japan, often in the press in the late 1990s and early 2000s, though the press seems to have tired of him [...]
I have not used this method personally but it seems to be good. Here is some information that you may find useful. I found the sequencing of their steps useful to use with Ethan. WHOLE WORD RECOGNITION – FLASH CARDS METHOD Tested & proven as an effective home-teaching programme worldwide. WORDS HAVE MEANING, ALPHABETS DON’T Recognising [...]
