S6E85: Morning Time for Moms, Part 4, with Christina Baehr
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
Release Date: 06/06/2024
S6E86: Morning Time with the Aging with Tiffany Mai
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with homeschooling mom of 2 about using Morning Time in a local retirement home How Tiffany first came to know the Lord and also how she found out about Charlotte Mason How Tiffany started taking her children with her to do Morning Time at a local nursing home What are some of the fruits Tiffany has seen from this experience? What Tiffany includes in her morning time with the residents How can other homeschool families start this as a ministry in their own communities? What are some other areas in which families could minister to people...
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S6E85: Morning Time for Moms, Part 4, with Christina Baehr
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
Show Summary: In today’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy shares a chat she had with Christina Baehr, a second generation homeschooling mom in Tasmania, Australia A little about Christina’s background and various creative pursuits, including music and writing What is Pilgrim Hill, and why did Christina and her husband start it? How Christina’s own self-education was deeply influenced by her mother How Christina home educates her own children Why Christina never really stopped self-educating How Christina gets through difficult seasons Evaluating expectations as a homeschool mom How...
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S6E84: Morning Time for Moms Part 3 with Elissa Kroeger
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn sit down to talk with veteran homeschool mom Elissa Kroeger about her own journey of self-education How Elissa first heard about Charlotte Mason Elissa’s own history with reading and self-education through her school years How Elissa’s early homeschooling community grew organically How was a Charlotte Mason lifestyle a catalyst for wholeness in Elissa’s life? How has life changed since most of Elissa’s children have grown and are no longer in her homeschool? What Elissa does now for self-education Who were the women who made the biggest...
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S6E83: A Heart to Heart with the AmblesideOnline Advisory
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
On The New Mason Jar today, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with the AmblesideOnline Advisory members Anne White, Donna-Jean Breckenridge, Karen Glass and Leslie Laurio. How the friendship of the AO Advisory developed and has been a gift for each member throughout the years Did the Advisory members use the whole AO curriculum as written? What about those fears about missing out on something if a family doesn’t do everything in the curriculum perfectly? The simplicity of the Charlotte Mason approach to language arts Do any of the Advisory doubt Charlotte Mason’s methods now...
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S6E82: Morning Time for Moms (and Dads!), Part 2, with Summer and Mike Smith
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
Every plant bears fruit, ‘fruit and seed after his kind.’ All this is stale knowledge to older people, but one of the secrets of the educator is to present nothing as stale knowledge, but to put himself in the position of the child, and wonder and admire with him; for every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 54 Show Summary: On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn continue their Morning Time for Moms series with guests Summer and Mike Smith How Summer and Mike first learned about...
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S6E81: “Joy in the Morning” Summer Discipleship
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
If mankind had not been organized into families, it would never have had the organic power to be organized into commonwealths. Human culture is handed down in the customs of countless households. It is the only way in which human culture can remain human. G. K. Chesterton, Marriage and the Modern Mind Show Summary: For this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn share about this year’s summer discipleship course, Gretchen Neisler tells about her own experience with past summer discipleship and why she keeps coming back for more What you can expect from this year’s...
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S6E80: Spring Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
They notice for themselves, and the teacher gives a name and other information as it is asked for… In this way they lay up that store of “common information”… and what is more important, they learn to know and delight in natural objects as in the familiar faces of friends. Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 237 Show Summary: On The New Mason Jar this week, we bring you a conversation all about spring nature study with Cindy, Dawn and Cindy’s friend Jeannette Tulis, who has been a previous guest on the podcast How can moms begin nature study when they have never done it before?...
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S6E79: “A Bit of the World’s Work” with Anne White
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies is much used in the P.U.S., as I know of no other attempt to present such a ground plan of human nature as should enable the young student to know where he is in his efforts to ‘be good’ as the children say. The point of view taken in this volume is, that all beautiful and noble possibilities are present in every one; but that each person is subject to assaults and hindrances in various ways of which he should be aware in order that he may watch and pray. Hortatory teaching is apt to bore both young people and their elders; but an ordered presentation...
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S6E78: Morning Time for Moms, Part 1, with Jami Marstall
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of that which under the actions of the mind itself becomes knowledge. Nothing can stale its infinite variety; the heavens and the earth, the past, the present, and future, things great and things minute, nations and men, the universe, all are within the scope of the human intelligence. Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 330 Show Summary: On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn kick off a new series of the podcast, Morning Time for Moms, with our first guest in the...
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S6E77: Seeing the Big Picture with Heather Martin
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
Three Questions for the Mother…She must ask herself Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? And, How should they learn it? If she takes the trouble to find a definite and thoughtful answer to each of these three queries, she will be in a position to direct her children’s studies; and will, at the same time, be surprised to find that three-fourths of the time and labour ordinarily spent by the child at his lessons is lost time and wasted energy. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 171 Show Summary: On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn sit...
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- In today’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy shares a chat she had with Christina Baehr, a second generation homeschooling mom in Tasmania, Australia
- A little about Christina’s background and various creative pursuits, including music and writing
- What is Pilgrim Hill, and why did Christina and her husband start it?
- How Christina’s own self-education was deeply influenced by her mother
- How Christina home educates her own children
- Why Christina never really stopped self-educating
- How Christina gets through difficult seasons
- Evaluating expectations as a homeschool mom
- How Christina got back into writing
- What Christina is reading right now
That each thing is a word
Requiring us to speak it;
From the ant to the quasar,
From clouds to ocean floor-
The meaning not ours, but found
In the mind deeply submissive
To the grammar of existence,
The syntax of the real;
So that alien is changed
To human, thing into thinking:
For the world’s bare tokens
We pay golden coin,
Stamped with the king’s image;
And poems are prophecy
Of a new heaven and earth,
A rumour of resurrection
“Credo” by James Phillip McAuley
Books and Links Mentioned:
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Secrets of Ormdale Series by Christina Baehr
Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
Beyond Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
The Mabinogion by Anonymous
How We Might Live by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Find Cindy and Christina:
Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
“It is no small part of education to have seen much beauty, to recognize it when we see it, and to keep ourselves humble in its presence.”
Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education