• This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome Summer Smith back to the podcast with a fun discussion about her USA's 250th Birthday Book List
• What Cindy remembers about the celebrations surrounding America's bicentennial when she was young
• How Summer first came up with the idea for creating this book list
• Why Summer tried to include a greater number of positive books than those that highlighted negative parts of America's history
• Some examples of the types of books that made it onto the list
• How Dawn is adding American patriotism resources across Cindy's Patreon and on her own Substack

For the full show notes of this episode, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/130.

• On the first episode of Season 10 of The New Mason Jar, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Lani Siciliano, veteran homeschool mom and a member of the AmblesideOnline Auxiliary
• How Lani first learned about homeschooling and Charlotte Mason
• What is the difference between the AO Advisory and the Auxiliary?
• How did you prepare transcripts for your students to get into the military and college?
• Did Lani feel like she had to change a lot of things when she started homeschooling high school?
• How the practice of narration prepared Lani's students for higher education
• Did Lani encounter any hiccups along the way or have any regrets?
• How Lani applies a Charlotte Mason education to her own life as she has graduated most of her children
• A few more words of wisdom from moms farther down the road

• On The New Mason Jar Podcast this week, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Sheila Carroll, founder of Living Books Press
• How Sheila first heard about Charlotte Mason's philosophy
• How Sheila started developing the curriculum and resources that became Living Books Press
• What is narration, and what makes it such a powerful practice?
• How do we keep the idea of a child's personhood from steering us toward a child-centered education?
• Sheila's advice for beginning narration and dealing with pushback from your child
• How to prepare young children who are not yet school age for narrating later
• Why is nature study so important for today's children?
• How do nature study and living books work together for a full education?
• How is composition taught in the Charlotte Mason paradigm?

To view the full show notes for this episode, including resources mentioned, please visit our website at https://thenewmasonjar.com/128.