The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also provide a great number of helpful episodes and resources as you plan for the upcoming school year. The episode closes with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead.

“Every mother, especially, should keep a diary in which to note the successive phases of her child’s physical, mental, and moral growth, with particular attention to the moral.” (2/105-106)

Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections

Seasonal Reflection Questions

Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method

Episodes by Topic

ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following)

Teacher Training Videos

ADE's Patreon Community

Parents' Educational Course

Episode 232: Forecasting Lessons -- How to plan

Forecasting Teacher Training Video

Form Overviews:

• Form IB Overview
• Form IA Overview
• Form IIB Overview
• Form IIA Overview
• Form III Overview
• Forms IV-VI Overview

Subjects By Form

Episode 162: Creating Your Own CM Curriculum

Curriculum Templates

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Your Curriculum

Schedule Cards

Episode 264: The Time-Table

Episode 33: Scheduling a CM Education

Awaken: Living Books Conference July 26-27, 2024

There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.

"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)

"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)

"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)

Beauty & Truth Math

Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?

Episode 182: Visualization

Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum

Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books

ADE's Patreon Community

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need.

Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series (Audiobook)

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard

Awaken Living Books Conference

Episode 276: ADE Book Discussion: Vanity Fair

ADE's Patreon Community