I usually put off my Charlotte Mason study group reading until a day or two before the meeting. Yes, I’m a procrastinator, but I do like having it fresh in my mind for the discussion. However I realized today in looking at the required reading (we’re using Brandy Vencel’s Start Here study guide) that we had to read the entire long chapter, Education: A Science of Relations, in Susan Schaeffer Macaulay’s For the Children’s Sake. So I decided I’d better get a head start. 😉 This quote stood out to me as a much better response to our children’s queries of “Why do I have to do this?” than answers like “You’ll need it for a job” or worse, “Because it’s on the test.”
Also read this week:
- Hubby: still reading MacArthur’s The Glory of Heaven
- Me: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge – our new lunchtime read-aloud! I loved it when I read it several years ago, and I’m looking forward to reading it again. 🙂
- Miss A: The Dragon’s Tooth (she’s rereading N.D. Wilson’s Ashtown Burials series)
- Mr. D: Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt by George Grant
- Mr. E: The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Little L: ‘Busy Timmy’ and ‘We Help Mommy’ from Eloise Wilken Stories (he loves this book)
- Little R: Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle
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