Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Release Date: 05/03/2024
Episode 305: The Bible, Part 1
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Why did Charlotte Mason think that the Bible was the most important subject in a child's school lessons? What portions of the Bible are appropriate for children to read? And why should I include Bible as a lesson if our family already does regular Bible reading or devotions? In today's podcast we are tackling these questions and more as we look at the Bible as a school subject in the Charlotte Mason curriculum. Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 () ( - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
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Episode 304: The Curriculum, Part 2
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Are you lacking confidence in choosing your Charlotte Mason curriculum? In today’s podcast we are talking about what a Charlotte Mason curriculum isn't by examining the principles Miss Mason gave us, so we can spread the feast of a living education with confidence. Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 () ( - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!) Episodes on the curriculum:
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Episode 303: The Curriculum, Part 1
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Have you ever wondered what makes a curriculum Charlotte Mason or not? Charlotte Mason herself gave us principles based on her idea that children are born persons. This season of the podcast, we are going to be working our way through chapter 10 of volume six and answering that question: What is a Charlotte Mason curriculum? Join us in this episode as we start to answer that question by exploring points 11-15 of her educational principles. Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 () ( - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
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Episode 302: Introduction to Season 11
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
We're back for season 11 of the podcast! Listen to hear about everything that is new at A Delectable Education along with a unique opportunity to read Charlotte Mason along with us. Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 () ( - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!) (English Literature for Boys & Girls and Age of Fable) (The Young Citizen's Reader and Ourselves) (First weekend in February, access for 3 months following)
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Episode 301: Season 10 Closing Ceremonies
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
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 encourage you to take some time this summer to listen to old episodes as you plan for the upcoming school year. Finally, we have a big announcement to make about the coming season. We close this episode with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead. (First weekend in...
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Episode 300: Balancing Life Outside of School
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
As Charlotte Mason Homeschoolers, we all know the challenge it is to find balance in all the other parts of life besides our school lessons. With so many priorities and responsibilities, it is imperative that we continue to evaluate and seek to find balance in our lives. In this podcast episode Emily, Liz, and Nicole discuss the challenges, mistakes, and tips they have for balancing relationships, home responsibilities, service, and ministry opportunities. Use code "delectable" at check out to receive 10% off your order : ADE's ADE's
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Episode 299: Finding Balance in School with Sarah Potter
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Sarah Potter who made a big change in her homeschool after graduating the first of her six children and enrolling her remaining students in a not-so-local hybrid CM Cottage School. Sarah shares the factors that led her to make this decision, the hard parts as well as the wonderful benefits her family has experienced being a part of Living Education Academy. Use code "delectable" at check out to...
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Episode 298: Balancing Expectations
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Often when we encounter a difficulty in our Charlotte Mason education, the problem lies not in the books and materials, but rather in a mismatch between our expectations and the reality we see before us. In this episode of the podcast, we explore the unbalanced expectations we consciously and unconsciously embrace that are at odds with the outcomes Charlotte Mason expected. In returning to the principles of our educational method, we can find balance, and thereby, peace. "If we realise that the mind and knowledge are like two members of a ball and socket joint, two limbs of a pair of...
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Episode 297: Balance of Educational Philosophy
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Charlotte Mason viewed all educational possibilities as fitting into one or the other of two schools of philosophy: Materialism and Idealism. Instead, she offers a "middle way," a new path that draws on the strengths of both schools. The portion of Parents and Children where she discusses these ideas is dense. In this episode of the podcast, Jessica Becker guides us through what Miss Mason had to say, and, more importantly, why it is essential for parents and teachers to find balance between these two educational extremes. Parents and Children (Volume 2), Charlotte Mason,...
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Episode 296: ADE Book Club--Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 7, 2025, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to what they gleaned from Miss Gaskell's groundbreaking and somewhat controversial novel, Ruth. If you have read the book, you will enjoy listening to what we all gleaned from this story, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it. ...
info_outlineThere 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)
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?
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
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