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The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsReading Dante’s “Divine Comedy” with Dr. Jason Baxter This week on The New Mason Jar, Dr. Jason Baxter returns to the podcast to talk with Cindy and Dawn about Dante as part of a new series of Mothers Education Course episodes When Dr. Baxter was first introduced to Dante’s Divine Comedy Why Dr. Baxter thinks Dante wrote this work in the form of epic poetry? How this translation is different than other modern English translations Does the language and mood of Inferno feel different from that in the Purgatorio? Why Jason chose the artwork he did for the covers of his translations Jason’s encouragement for the busy...2025-06-051h 04The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms, Part 7, with Anne White On The New Mason Jar Podcast this week, Cindy and Dawn talk with Anne White, AmblesideOnline Advisory member, about how she continues her own education as a veteran homeschool mom A little more background on how Anne learned about Charlotte Mason What kinds of books Anne remembers reading as a child How Anne realized she needed to continue her own education as an adult What ways Anne seeks to grow in knowledge now and keeps her curiosity alive What Anne’s reading life looks like these days How can busy moms use the little pockets of time in their day to...2025-05-2947 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason in the Early Years with Jeannette Tullis In this week's episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with Jeannette Tullis about implementing Kindergarten in harmony with Charlotte Mason's methods What was Charlotte Mason's approach to early childhood education? Is the idea of modern early education a myth? What do you do about writing or narration during the kindergarten years? How Jeannette makes reading aloud interactive Do parents need a curriculum to guide them through the early years? How do you choose good quality picture books? What can parents do to keep records in states where it is required? Plus: a sidebar about...2025-05-1551 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsRemix of Spring Nature Study with Jeannette On The New Mason Jar this week, we bring you a replay of a great conversation all about spring nature study with Cindy, Dawn and Cindy’s friend Jeannette Tulis How can moms begin nature study when they have never done it before? How to find spring ephemeral wildflowers, and other things to look for at this time of year Ideas for stepping up your nature study game What are some tips for nature journaling? To view the full show notes for this episode, please visit our website at https://thenewmasonjar.com/108. 2025-04-0337 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsUsing Math Journals and Games with Denise Gaskins On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn are joined by Denise Gaskins, veteran homeschool mom and math coach and tutor What are math logbooks, and why are they a helpful learning tool? Would Charlotte Mason have encouraged math games? How can math games progress as students gain proficiency with them? What is wrong with traditional math curricula, and do we need to change it? Denise gives Cindy and Dawn a math game prompt to show how these practices can work What are some ideas for students with math anxiety? To view the full sh...2025-03-1344 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMisrepresentations of a Charlotte Mason Education with Karen Glass This week we are delighted to bring you another conversation between Cindy Rollins and guest Karen Glass, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Karen and Cindy tackle the subject of Charlotte Mason and classical education, refuting some misrepresentations of a Charlotte Mason education Cindy explains why she has a problem with the current neo-classical education movement Karen explains how this conversation even came about in the first place Karen discusses the value of spending time reading and re-reading Charlotte Mason's work Cindy asks Karen to explain why she believes Charlotte Mason is in the classical...2025-02-1353 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsComposition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass Today on The New Mason Jar podcast, Dawn moderates a discussion between host Cindy Rollins and guest Karen Glass, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Karen and Cindy talk about narration and composition in the Charlotte Mason paradigm, beginning with a little background on Karen’s new book, The Art of Composition Why Cindy has always said that parents don’t need a writing program and Karen’s response Cindy’s concern for parents to remember to focus on ideas in narration over the form of composition Karen’s thoughts on the building blocks of narration as the founda...2025-01-3053 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A NO. 9 WITH CINDY AND DAWN This week on The New Mason Jar, we bring you another special Q&A episode with Cindy’s Patreon members What is the approach to reading a book with a high school student in the Charlotte Mason paradigm? How do you deal with “imperfect” narrations, and how can you make stopping for narrations mid-read less distracting? Should we have students narrate poetry regularly? How can we start out narrations with young children, and what are some tips for helping students in the beginning? What can we do about teens who are affected by the fear of missing out on opportunities in pub...2025-01-0246 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins25 Books of Christmas with Jeannette Tulis On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy Rollins and Jeannette Tulis chat about ways to incorporate books into your Advent and Christmas traditions. This was a special video recording for Cindy's Patreon members, with the audio shared here for all our podcast listeners. You can download the full list of books Jeannette and Cindy talk about for your own book buying or borrowing during the holiday season on our website at https://thenewmasonjar.com/099/. 2024-12-051h 03The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsAdvent Art Study and Devotions with Rebecca Zipp Today on The New Mason Jar, we bring you a special episode just in time for Advent Cindy and Dawn chat with their friend and homeschooling mom of 2, Rebecca Zipp, who writes at ahumbleplace.com How Rebecca first came to learn about Charlotte Mason's philosophy What Rebecca's website A Humble Place is all about What is Advent, and why did Rebecca develop this Advent Art Devotions resource? What other Advent traditions have Dawn, Rebecca, and Cindy had over the years? Please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/098/ to get the full show notes with links to resources mentioned and...2024-11-2842 min
Homeschooling Outside the BoxBeyond Morning Time: A Conversation with Cindy RollinsCindy Rollins homeschooled her nine children for over thirty years. She is the host of The New Mason Jar podcast and a co-host with Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks of the popular Literary Life Podcast. She also curates the “Over the Back Fence Newsletter” at MorningTimeForMoms.com. She is the author of Mere Motherhood; Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love; Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah; The Literary Life Commonplace books, and Mere Motherhood Newsletters. I had the privilege of meeting Cindy at a conference here in north Alabama this past spring and I’m thrilled...2024-09-0353 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A No. 8, LIVE with Cindy and Dawn Welcome to this special Q&A episode recorded live with Cindy's 2024 Summer Discipleship group In this episode we hear questions from participants and answers from Cindy Rollins, Dawn Duran, and Jeannette Tulis Lisa asks, "What about summers? Should we work hard to give our kids a 'real' summer break?" Tanya asks, "What kinds of books are best for the very young and are not considered twaddle?" Ellie asks, "How do I know how high is too high of a reading level for reading aloud? What can we do when children seem not to be engaging with a book?"...2024-08-0137 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCo-ops and Charlotte Mason with April and Anna We kick off this new season of The New Mason Jar with a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with homeschool friends April Weyland and Anna Whiteside How Anna and April first found out about Charlotte Mason How the transition to a Charlotte Mason curriculum worked for Anna Why April decided it was time for them to leave their old coop and start using CM principles How Anna started her own CM coop with a few more like-minded families How April tried to keep the curriculum challenging while balancing learning difficulties Anna’s tips on carrying over these ideas into a co...2024-07-0453 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time with the Aging with Tiffany Mai 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...2024-06-2045 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms, Part 4, with Christina BaehrShow 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 Christina got back into writing What Christ...2024-06-061h 10The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms, Part 4, with Christina BaehrShow 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 Christina got back into writing What Christ...2024-06-061h 10The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms Part 3 with Elissa Kroeger 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 impressi...2024-05-2355 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms (and Dads!), Part 2, with Summer and Mike Smith 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 Smit...2024-04-251h 08The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“Joy in the Morning” Summer Discipleship 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, “Joy in the Morning” Gretchen Neisler tells about her own experience with past summer discipleship and why she keeps coming back for more...2024-04-1838 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsSpring Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis 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 stu...2024-04-1137 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“A Bit of the World’s Work” with Anne White 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 ap...2024-03-2841 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMorning Time for Moms, Part 1, with Jami Marstall 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...2024-03-1442 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsSeeing the Big Picture with Heather Martin 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 ...2024-02-2953 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“Beyond Mere Motherhood” with Cindy and Dawn No one knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education… Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 26 Show Summary: On The New Mason Jar this week, Cindy and Dawn sit down to chat about Cindy’s newest book, Beyond Mere Motherhood How this book came to be What Cindy hopes this book to be and who it is for What you can expect from each chapter of the book How this book is helping launch a new podcast series coming soon...2024-02-1535 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Sacred Sacrifice with Hannah Paris and Amy Edwards Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting. Johann Sebastian Bach Show Summary: Today on The New Mason Jar, Cindy talks with Hannah Paris and Amy Edwards about the new Lenten companion book to Hallelujah, A Sacred Sacrifice How this book came to be through the years Some thoughts on why St. Matthew’s Passion is such an appropriate piece fo...2024-02-0154 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Lives of Charlotte Mason Moms and Military Wives As a matter of fact, we do not realise children, we under-estimate them; in the divine words, we “despise” them, with the best intentions in the world, because we confound the immaturity of their frames, and their absolute ignorance as to the relations of things, with spiritual impotence: whereas the fact probably is, that never is intellectual power so keen, the moral sense so strong, spiritual perception so piercing, as in those days of childhood which we regard with a supercilious, if kindly, smile. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children, p. 260 Show Summary: Today on The New Maso...2024-01-1856 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMusic and Group Singing with Bethany Stuard Few things could be more disastrous (as, alas, few are more imminent) than a sudden break with the traditions of the past; wherefore, let us gently knit the bonds that bind us to the generation all too rapidly dying out. It is well that we gather up, with tender reverence, such fragments of their insight and experience as come in our way; for we would fain, each, be as an householder, bringing forth out of his treasures things new and old. Charlotte Mason, Formation of Character, p. 156-157 Show Summary: On The New Mason Jar this...2024-01-0454 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“Six Voices, One Story” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge It is not the friends of our election who have exclusive claims upon us; the friends brought to us here and there by the circumstances of life all claim our loyalty, and from these we get…kindness for kindness, service for service, loyalty for loyalty, full measure, heaped together and running over. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 2, p. 32 Show Summary: Today on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome back Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Donna-Jean shares a little about how the Advisory met and went on to work to...2023-12-2155 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsReprise of "Christmas Memories with Lynn and Donna-Jean", Ep. 47Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us, And we beheld His glory, as, of God, The only-begotten Son: we who believed Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs— Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings— But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him; And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple, His glory saw we—full of grace and truth. Charlotte Mason, from “Savior of the World,” Prologue to the Gospel according to St. John Show Summary: On this episode of...2023-12-071h 10The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Casual Chat with Cindy and Dawn Education is a life. That life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God has made us so that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth, written page, Scripture word, musical symphony; but we must sustain a child’s inner life with ideas as we sustain his body with food. Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Cindy and Dawn take some time for a more informal chat about some ideas that have been on their minds and hearts lately The danger of...2023-11-2333 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Question of Culture with Erin Kunkle Mentally he must be developed so that as he grows older he may have the capacity to grasp the true meaning of social and political questions of the day. His mind should be so trained that he will be able to detect and reject fallacious statements, and quick to discover the claptrap of which our newspapers are so full. E. A. Smith, “Citizenship: Our Responsibility as Teachers”, June 1911 L’Umile Pianta Show Summary: Today’s guest on The New Mason Jar is Erin Kunkle, a veteran homeschool mom, speaker and co-host of the MAVEN parent podcast How Erin...2023-11-091h 00The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Beauty of Mathematics with Melissa Bair We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great thing to be brought into the presence of a law, of a whole system of laws, that exist without our concurrence,––that two straight lines cannot enclose a space is a fact which we can perceive, state, and act upon but cannot in any wise alter, should give to children the sense of limitation which is wholesome for all of us, and insp...2023-10-1950 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsScience in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Jeanne Webb Again, we have made a rather strange discovery, that the mind refuses to know anything except what reaches it in more or less literary form. Persons can ‘get up’ the driest of pulverised text-books and enough mathematics for some public examination; but these attainments do not appear to touch the region of mind. Of Natural Science, too, we have to learn that the way into the secrets of nature is not through the barbed wire entanglements of science as she is taught but through field work or other immediate channel, illustrated and illuminated by books of literary value...2023-10-051h 06The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A No. 7, On the Building Blocks of Story “There can be no great art without great fable. Great art can only exist where great men brood intensely on something upon which all men brood a little. Without a popular body of fable there can be no unselfish art in any country. Shakespeare’s art was selfish till he turned to the great tales in the four most popular books of his time…” James Masefield, as Quoted by Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Toward a Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today on the New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome back previous guests Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey t...2023-09-211h 02The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Charlotte Mason Sunday School with Emily Raible and Tracy Fast All our teaching of children should be given reverently, with the humble sense that we are invited in this matter to co-operate with the Holy Spirit; but it should be given dutifully and diligently. Charlotte Mason, Vol. 2, Parents and Children Show Summary: Our guests on The New Mason Jar podcast this week are Emily Raible and Tracy Fast How Tracy was homeschooled and came to learn about Charlotte Mason How Emily first heard about Charlotte Mason How Tracy got started using Charlotte Mason’s principles in teaching Sunday school How Emily began creating a Sunday school cu...2023-08-1752 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsSinging in the Homeschool with Heather Bunting In teaching music, again, let him once perceive the beautiful laws of harmony, the personality, so to speak, of Music, looking out upon him from among the queer little black notes… Charlotte Mason, Vol. 2, Parents and Children, p. 278-279 Show Summary: On the New Mason Jar today, Cindy is joined by Heather Bunting, homeschooling mother of 4 and former public school music teacher How Heather first came to learn about Charlotte Mason and her philosophy What is solfege or solfa, and why it is helpful to learn? Why Heather started making videos teaching solfege on her channel Ch...2023-08-0336 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Role of a Homeschool Dad with Dan Bunting Without knowledge, Reason carries a man into the wilderness and Rebellion joins company. The man is not to be blamed: it is a glorious thing to perceive your mind, your reasoning power, acting of its own accord as it were and producing argument after argument in support of any initial notion; how is a man to be persuaded, when he wakes up to this tremendous power he has of involuntary reasoning, that his conclusions are not necessarily right, but rather that he who reasons without knowledge is like a child playing with edged tools? Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy...2023-07-2044 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Great Recognition with Camille Malucci In the things of science, in the things of art, in the things of practical everyday life, his God doth instruct him and doth teach him, her God doth instruct her and doth teach her. Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is infinite, the whole world is not too great a school for this indefatigable Teacher, and because He is infinite, He is able to gi...2023-07-0648 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey Commonplace Tales: Tales of Imagination––Stories, again, of the Christmas holidays, of George and Lucy, of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impo...2023-06-221h 33The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Reasoned Patriotism with Dawn Duran The honor due to our country…is not to be confounded with the ignorant and impertinent attitude of the Englishman or the Chinese who believes that to be born an Englishman or a Chinese puts him on a higher level than the people of all other countries; that his own country and his own government are right in all circumstances, and other countries and other governments always wrong. But, on the other hand, still more to be guarded against, is the caitiff spirit of him who holds his own country and his own government always in the wrong and al...2023-06-0831 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Uphill Road – Summer Discipleship with Cindy and Friends After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and a limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it matters not whether our years be twenty of eighty. Anna Botsford Comstock, The Handbook of Nature Study Show Summary: Cindy and Dawn share a little about the upcoming 2023 discipleship course at Morning Time for Moms, The Uphill Road Dawn asks...2023-05-1919 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS4E58: An Orthodox Jewish Approach to Charlotte Mason with Bethany Mandel Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Bethany Mandel, Orthodox Jewish homeschooling mother of 6, co-author of the new book Stolen Youth, and conservative political commentator How Bethany first heard of Charlotte Mason education How Bethany juggled home educating and writing a book at the same time What a typical day looks like in Bethany’s homeschool How Bethany...2023-05-181h 02The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS4E57: The Mater Amabilis Curriculum with Ella Rice But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent evil, the preparation of the child to take his place in the world at his best… Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: This week’s guest on The New Mason Jar is Ella Rice, is a homeschooling mom of 5 who uses the Mater Amabilis curriculum with her children How Ella first learned about Charlotte Mason Is Mater Amabilis only for Catholics? What made...2023-05-0438 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsPrioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of education based upon Natural Law. Does the child eat or drink, does he come, or go, or play––all the time he is being educated, though he is as little aware of it as he is of the act of breathing. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today on The New Mason Jar, Alanna Hendon...2023-04-2053 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ & A No. 6 with Cindy and Dawn …of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3 Show Summary: Cindy and Dawn tackle another round of listener questions on this episode of The New Mason Jar How can a mom of several school age children keep up with pre-reading? How do you implement use of a Book of Centuries? What can be done about children complaining about morning time? Books and Links Mentioned:2023-04-0640 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White ...to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1 Show Summary: Today’s returning guest is Anne White, veteran homeschool mom, author, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Anne’s history with Lent and how she and her family started observing the seasons of the church year What is different about Charlotte Mason’s book Ourselves than her other volumes? How might Ourselves be used in the homeschool? How Anne w...2023-03-3038 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsHigh School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him? Charlotte Mason, School Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Melissa McMahan, veteran homeschool mom of 2 graduates and 3 still at home, and long-time follower of AmblesideOnline How Melissa first heard about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy How Melissa...2023-03-2340 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMusic Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt …what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating, summarising, doing all those things for children which they are born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of...2023-03-0942 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsHomeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children Show Summary: Today’s guest is Alanna Hendon, homeschooling mom of 6, 5 of whom are boys How Alanna came to learn about the Charlotte Mason philosophy The lasting and eternal value of a Charlotte Mason education How would you respond to the criticism that Charlotte Mason is too feminine for educating boys? Approaching poetry with boys What other elements of a CM education have had the mo...2023-02-231h 05The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsPublic School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible––even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe. Charlo...2023-02-0946 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guests are Anna Hornstra and two of her three daughters, Addison and Ella How Anna came to homeschooling early on What happened when Anna let doubts and systems set the tone of their homeschool How Charlotte Mason’s principles have played out in Anna’s home Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlot...2023-01-261h 03The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsMath in the Charlotte Mason Model with Richele Baburina Miss Mason taught us that ‘Education is the science of relations’ and that a child should feel from the very beginning that his relations with number are opening up to him yet another realm of beautiful and wonderful things for his enjoyment and delight. Number: A Figure and a Step Onward, Mrs. W.A. Stephens, The Parents’ Review Show Summary: Today’s guest is Richele Baburina, a veteran homeschooling mother of 2 and author of The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series, and Brush Drawing: A Basic Course How Richele first heard about Charlotte Mason How Richele began research...2023-01-1237 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsChristmas Memories with Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us, And we beheld His glory, as, of God, The only-begotten Son: we who believed Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs— Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings— But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him; And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple, His glory saw we—full of grace and truth. Charlotte Mason, from “Savior of the World,” Prologue to the Gospel according to St. John Show Summary: Today’s guests are Lynn Bruce a...2022-12-151h 07The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. The Story of Charlotte Mason Show Summary: This week Dawn and Cindy tackle some more listener questions with their personal opinions based on their experience and their reading Why is it incorrect to say that the right homeschooling philosophy is the one that works for your children? How do we seek to follow Charlotte Mason’s ph...2022-12-0842 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. Here men do not begin to reason with a notion which causes them to lean to this side or to that. By degrees, absolute truth unfolds itself. We are so made that truth, absolute and certain truth, is a perfect joy to us; and that is the joy that mathematics afford. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guests are Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges of Climbing Higher Math How Julie and Tabitha each first learned about Charlotte Mason How do you ap...2022-11-2445 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS2E44: Reprise of A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and Mary, not knowing what all this might mean to her, cried ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it to me according to Thy word.’ Charlotte Mason, Parents Review Article, “The Nativity” Show Summary: Today’s show is a special replay of last year’s popular Advent episode with Cindy and Dawn. To start off, Cindy shares how...2022-11-171h 22The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsHomeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guests are Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong Kay is a veteran homeschooling mom to one son, as well as a piano teacher and literary enthusiast Christy is also a veteran homeschooling mom of one boy, and teaches at a local Charlotte Mason cottage school How did each of our guests learn about Charlotte Ma...2022-11-1050 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsSimply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer Children learn to grow. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Sonya Shafer is a veteran homeschool mom of 4 daughters as well as a popular author and speaker and co-founder of Simply Charlotte Mason How Sonya first discovered Charlotte Mason How Sonya and her friend Karen Smith started Simply Charlotte Mason How Simply Charlotte Mason grew over time to cover a complete curriculum Why it is important for parents to have encouragement and support in home educating How people can pick and choose SCM resources that work together for a full course of st...2022-10-2745 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsHomeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason Today’s guest is Yolanda Mason, wife and homeschooling mother of 4, founder of the Heritage Learning Center in Charlotte, NC How Yolanda first heard about Charlotte Mason Why and how she started the Heritage Learning Center What is the value of a homeschool community like this? How narration can be improved in a group What the learning goals look like in community What a typical day looks like in Yolanda’s homeschool If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, should have happier households. Let the mother go out to p...2022-10-1331 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours” Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on which our curriculum turns. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 273 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Before getting to main the subject matter, Donna-Jean gives homeschooling moms a little encouragement and exhortation How This Country of Ours was chosen as a history spine for AmblesideOnline Why Donna-Jean decided to expand and update the book How Donna-Jean annotated, expanded and updated This Country of Ours What she hopes this new version accomplishes It...2022-09-2954 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsSwedish Drill with Dawn Duran This week Dawn Duran joins Cindy to discuss the value and practice of Swedish Drill How Dawn first learned about Charlotte Mason What exactly is Swedish Drill? What is the connection between Swedish Drill and Charlotte Mason? What are the benefits of Swedish Drill in the school day? How did you develop your Swedish Drill Revisited materials? What ages can do Swedish Drill? Can this be done in groups or at home with just one or two children? I will only add, that to give the child pleasure in light and easy motion–the sort of delight in the ma...2022-09-1540 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Tribute to Wendi Capehart Our aim in education is to give a full life…. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests…. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking – the strain would be too great – but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest. Charlotte Mason, School Education, pg. 170 Show Summary: Today’s episode is dedicated to remembering Wendi Capehart with special memorial messages f...2022-09-0153 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsOvercoming Fear in Homeschooling with Jennifer Pepito It is only in so far as Knowledge is dear to us and delights us for herself that she yields us lifelong joy and contentment. He who delights in her, not for the sake of showing off, and not for the sake of excelling others, but just because she is so worthy to be loved, cannot be unhappy. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book I Show Summary: Today’s guest is Jennifer Pepito, veteran homeschool mom, author, podcast host and creator of The Peaceful Press How Jennifer first heard about Charlotte Mason Some of the hightlights of Jennifer’s ho...2022-07-2840 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsAdapting Charlotte Mason Methods for the Dyslexic Student with Marcela Best God the Holy Spirit is himself, personally, the imparter of knowledge, the instructor of youth, the inspirer of genius…. every fruitful idea, every original conception whether in Euclid or grammar or music was a direct inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Charlotte Mason, Parents and children, Vol. 2 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Marcela Best, homeschooling mother of 5 children How Marcela started learning about Charlotte Mason The types of special needs Marcela’s children have How Marcela adapted the process of written narration for her dyslexic son The technology solutions that Marcela found helpful What aspects of the Ch...2022-07-2144 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsLarge Family Life and Charlotte Mason with Heather Tully Today’s guest is Heather Tully, wife, homeschooling mother of 10 children, and photographer of everyday life How Heather first came to hear about Charlotte Mason and made the transition from a neo-classical model How Heather manages many different ages of children by combining into forms What Heather’s family gathering time has looked like over the years How group narrations work in Heather’s family What a typical school day looks like in the Tully household Heather’s take on transitioning kids to college Heather’s words of encouragement for all mothers Books and Links Mentioned: Gather: Exploring...2022-07-0751 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsExams in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Celeste Cruz Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is infinite, the whole world is not too great a school for this indefatigable Teacher, and because He is infinite, He is able to give the whole of his infinite attention for the whole time to each one of his multitudinous pupils. We do not sufficiently rejoice in the wealth that the infinite nature of our God brings to ea...2022-06-1649 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS2E33: The Alveary Curriculum with Stephanie Russell It is the duty of the nation to maintain relations of brotherly kindness with other nations; therefore it is the duty of every family, as an integral part of the nation, to be able to hold brotherly speech with the families of other nations as opportunities arise; therefore to acquire the speech of neighbouring nations is not only to secure an inlet of knowledge and a means of culture, but is a duty of that higher morality (the morality of the family) which aims at universal brotherhood; therefore every family would do well to cultivate two languages besides the...2022-06-0438 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Gentle Feast Curriculum with Brittney McGann Is the distinction between being free to choose the right at one’s own option, and not free to do the wrong, too subtle to be grasped, too elusive to be practical? It may be so, but it is precisely the distinction which we are aware of in our own lives so far as we keep ourselves consciously under the divine governance. We are free to go in the ways of right living, and have the happy sense of liberty of choice, but the ways of transgressors are hard. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3 Show Summary: To...2022-06-0331 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Charlotte Mason Educational Center with Camille Malucci Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is infinite, the whole world is not too great a school for this indefatigable Teacher, and because He is infinite, He is able to give the whole of his infinite attention for the whole time to each one of his multitudinous pupils. We do not sufficiently rejoice in the wealth that the infinite nature of our God brings to ea...2022-06-0229 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe AmblesideOnline Curriculum with Emily Tallent The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character––the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of his life is a-preparing––is original disposition, modified, directed, expanded by education; by circumstances; later, by self-control and self-culture; above all, by the supreme agency of the Holy Ghost, even where that agency is little suspected, and as little solicited. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children, Vol. 2 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Emily Tallent, homeschooling mother of 6 who uses t...2022-06-0139 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA Charlotte Mason Approach to Language Arts with Amy Snell Today’s guest is Amy Snell, a homeschooling mother of 5, as well as a speaker, teacher and encourager to fellow Charlotte Mason homeschoolers How did you first hear about Charlotte Mason? What do you think are the elements of language arts in a Charlotte Mason paradigm? What are some of the early steps in teaching language arts at home? What are some other tools we can use besides narration to strengthen a child’s composition skills? What are the differences between transcription and dictation and their purposes? How can parents implement these practices into their daily and weekly schedules? Ideas for...2022-05-1949 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Value of Teaching Plutarch with Tom Cox …the one achievement possible and necessary for every man is character; and character is as finely wrought metal beaten into shape and beauty by the repeated and accustomed action of will. We who teach should make it clear to ourselves that our aim in education is less conduct than character;… Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Tom Cox, husband and homeschool father, classical educator, and Plutarch podcaster How Tom and his wife learned about Charlotte Mason How Tom became so interested in Plutarch The value of Plutarch in the classroom and ho...2022-05-0956 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsS2E28: Q&A Number 4 with Cindy and Dawn What if parents and teachers in their zeal misread the schedule of their duties, magnified their office unduly and encroached upon the personality of children? It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial relations carefully, constructed, but an atmosphere which nobody has been at pains to constitute. Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Toward A Philosophy of Education Show Summary: This week Dawn and Cindy are back with another session answering listener questions Find out about Cindy’s Summer Discipleship for 2022 What is the “ideal” Charlotte Mason atmosphere? How can we add multiculturalism to a Charlo...2022-05-0548 min
The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Value of Teaching Plutarch with Tom Cox …the one achievement possible and necessary for every man is character; and character is as finely wrought metal beaten into shape and beauty by the repeated and accustomed action of will. We who teach should make it clear to ourselves that our aim in education is less conduct than character;… Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Tom Cox, husband and homeschool father, classical educator, and Plutarch podcaster How Tom and his wife learned about Charlotte Mason How Tom became so interested in Plutarch The value of Plutarch in the classroom and ho...2022-04-2156 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsPicturing Charlotte Mason with Lanaya Gore and Twila Farmer Let me repeat that I venture to suggest, not what is practicable in any household but what seems to me absolutely best for the children; and that, in the faith that mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders are demanded of them. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guests are the author and illustrator of a new picture book on the life of Charlotte Mason, Lanaya Gore and Twila Farmer How did this book come to be? How did Lanaya and Twila come to work together on this project? What was th...2022-04-0735 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A No. 3 with Cindy and Dawn Today’s episode is another Q & A session with Cindy and Dawn How do you incorporate narration later on in a child’s schooling? Can you talk more about the importance of written narrations? How do you check all your students’ work and juggle different levels of students? How do you combine subjects for multiple ages of students? What are your thoughts on using the Charlotte Mason method without an understanding of Christian theology? Some closing thoughts and encouragement from Cindy Books Mentioned: School Education by Charlotte Mason How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer AO f...2022-03-1744 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsTeaching to Special Needs with Charlotte Mason Methods with Karla Areas The average child studies with delight. We do not say he will remember all he knows, but, to use a phrase of Jane Austen’s, he will have had his “imagination warmed” in many regions of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Vol. 3 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karla Areas, homeschool mother of 2 children and co-founder of the Charlotte Mason Memphis support group How Karla first came to know about Charlotte Mason What kinds of adaptations Karla made to narration, short lessons and other CM methods to work with her special needs child What are some of the f...2022-03-0329 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsTransitioning to a Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Dawn Garrett Today’s guest is Dawn Garrett, homeschooling mother of 3, and Community Manager at PamBarnhill.com How Dawn came to hear about Charlotte Mason after being a neo-Classical home educator What did your transition look like when you started using more Charlotte Mason methods? Did you have any concerns or challenges as you made that transition? How did your children respond to the change? What is your advice for parents wanting to make the shift? Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline In Memoriam by the Parents’ National Education Union Find Cindy and Dawn: Morni...2022-02-1044 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason Through High School with Jami Marstall We as teachers depreciate ourselves and our office; we do not realize that in the nature of things the teacher has a prophetic power of appeal and inspiration, that his part is not the weariful task of spoon-feeding with pap-meat, but the delightful commerce of equal minds where his is the part of guide, philosopher and friend. The friction of wills which makes school work harassing ceases to a surprising degree when we deal with the children, mind to mind, through the medium of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: Today’s guest is...2022-02-0349 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason and Special Education with Tammy GlaserS2E21: Charlotte Mason and Special Education with Tammy Glaser Today’s guest is Tammy Glaser, mother of 2 adult children, one with special needs, as well as a founder of a Charlotte Mason private school How Tammy discovered Charlotte Mason and decided it would work well for her family Why Tammy’s school integrates special needs, gifted and neuro-typical children in the same classroom What parts of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy are particularly suited for working with special needs students? What advice do you have for homeschooling children with special needs? Looking back now, do you still think it was the right decision to use Charlotte Mason methods with your daught...2022-01-2746 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCross-Cultural Education and Folk Songs with Wendi Capehart It is by the aid of imagination that a child comes to love people who do not belong to his own country, and as he learns the history of their great deeds and noble efforts, he is eager to learn something of the country in which they lived….of the causes that made the people what they are. E. A. Parish, Parents’ Review, VOl. 25, No. 5, 1914 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Wendi Capehart, veteran homeschool mom, world-traveler, and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How Wendi first found out about Charlotte Mason What would you say to people...2022-01-2047 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“However Imperfectly” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge But, once more, “This kind cometh forth only by prayer.” Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How did Donna-Jean first hear about Charlotte Mason? Where did the phrase “however imperfectly” come from? The value of small things done faithfully. Why Donna-Jean views homeschooling her grandchildren now as a gift. What to do when you are tempted to compare or to change everything up. What Donna-Jean is doing these days besides homeschooling. Books and Links Mentioned: For the Childr...2022-01-1357 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A No. 2, On Classical Education with Cindy and Karen“Sound principles that are old may easily be laid on the shelf and forgotten, unless in each successive generation a few industrious people can be found who will take the trouble to draw them forth from the storehouse.” Thomas Godolphin Rooper Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, author and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory Why do people think that Charlotte Mason and Classical education are different things? What is the basis for “neo-classical” pedagogy? Do we know what Charlotte Mason herself thought of classical education? Is there a particular version of historical classical...2021-12-0952 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason Methods in a School Setting with Adrienne Freas And what a barren and dry land should we dwell in if our spirits were narrowed to the limits of that which we can comprehend! Where we err is in supposing that mystery is confined to our religion, that everything else is obvious and open to our understanding: whereas the great things of life, birth, death, hope, love, patriotism, why a leaf is green, and why a bird is clothed in feathers–all such things as these are mysteries; and it is only as we can receive that which we cannot understand, and can discern the truth of that wh...2021-12-0241 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsA “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and Mary, not knowing what all this might mean to her, cried ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it to me according to Thy word.’ Charlotte Mason, Parents Review Article, “The Nativity” Show Summary: Today’s show is a special Advent episode with Cindy and Dawn. To start off, Cindy shares how she started using Handel’s orato...2021-11-181h 22The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsRecitation Gatherings with Dawn Duran and Maria Bell I think all that I have written is still true, but I would emphasize habit and so-on less; child-mind, no, because a child has as much mind as the rest of us. Charlotte Mason, In a letter to Henrietta Franklin Show Summary: Today’s guest is Maria Bell, homeschool mother of 4 What is your story of coming to discover Charlotte Mason? What was Charlotte Mason’s idea of recitation? What does the Dawn and Maria’s recitation gathering look like? What Cindy’s own recitation gatherings were like when her children were growing up How do you keep...2021-11-1149 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsOn Studying Plutarch’s Lives with Anne White Insofar we are laying ourselves out to secure that each shall “live his life”; and that, not at his neighbor’s expense; because, so wonderful is the economy of the world that when a man really lives his life he benefits his neighbor as well as himself; we all thrive in the well-being of each. Charlotte Mason, a Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Anne White, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How Anne first came to know about Charlotte Mason How Anne started creating study gu...2021-11-0433 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason Co-ops with Liz Wetzel Today’s guest is Liz Wetzel, mother of 5 and Charlotte Mason co-op leader How Liz found the need for a learning community that was sustainable How Liz came to know about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy Why Liz’s family left Classical Conversations for something else What happened when Liz started a Charlotte Mason reading group How Liz structured their CM community with a focus on older students What subjects Liz’s co-op usually does together regularly What Liz suggests for trying to start a CM community of your own Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason2021-10-2153 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason Study Groups with Jeannette Tulis “It is no arbitrary reward which is attached to the assembling of two or three together; we warm ourselves at each others’ fires, and glow with the heat we get. Let but the heads of two or three families meet together to talk over the bringing up of their children, and the best and wisest parents will go home with new insight, renewed purpose, and warmer zeal. ‘We shall learn by degrees that education is, like religion, a social principle as well as an individual duty; and, meeting on this higher ground, we shall find out the best of one an...2021-10-1438 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsQ&A with Cindy and Dawn, No. 1“It may be that the souls of all children are waiting for the call of knowledge to awaken them to delightful living.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s episode is our first Charlotte Mason Q&A with Cindy and Dawn What volume should a mother of young children start with first? What does Charlotte say about asking children questions after their readings? AmblesideOnline Exam question examples Charlotte Mason Digital Collection What criteria would you use to decide on a curriculum that will best suite your family? How do you keep up a c...2021-10-0742 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Immeasurable Benefits of Nature Study with Naomi Goegan “How delicious it is to sit down with a twig.” A Student, as quoted by Charlotte Mason Show Summary: Today’s guest is Naomi Goegan, an Auxiliary member of AmblesideOnline How Naomi discovered Charlotte Mason’s philosophy What would you say to new moms about starting nature study and going on nature walks? Why does nature study get so closely associated with Charlotte Mason? How is nature study foundational to the study of science? Some thoughts on the posture of a student coming to the study of nature What nature study elements are the most important in your...2021-09-2342 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsExploring Nature with Children with Lynn Seddon “Consider, too, what an unequaled mental training the child-naturalist is getting for any study or calling under the sun -the powers of attention, of discrimination, of patient pursuit, growing with his growth, what will they not fit him for?” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Lynn Seddon, author of the nature study resource Exploring Nature with Children How Lynn first stumbled upon Charlotte Mason home education What are we talking about when we say “nature study”? How Lynn became interested in nature study What about living in places where it seems challengin...2021-09-1633 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsGrowing Up in a Charlotte Mason Home with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp “Love, and the service of love, are the only things that count.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guest is Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp, daughter of Lynn Bruce and an AmblesideOnline graduate How Caitlin came to embrace Charlotte Mason’s methods as an adult and foster parent What Caitlin remembers most about her homeschool and growing up experience What subjects were Caitlin’s nemeses in school How narration prepared Caitlin so well for college How growing up with a Charlotte Mason education informed Caitlin’s family life today A few of Caitlin’s favorite books of all time 2021-09-0945 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsThe Foundation of Narration with Karen Glass “The method is as old as the mind of man, the distressful fact is that it has been made so little use of in general education.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, author and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory What is narration? How does narration work in the homeschool setting? Does a child have to narrate every lesson? When and how should children begin oral and written narration? Is narration really enough? When and how should we evaluate narrations? Books Mentioned: Toward a Philosophy of Educat...2021-09-021h 00The New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsAmy Edwards and Tina Mugglin on Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love “Even for their earliest reading lessons, it is unnecessary to put twaddle into the hands of children.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guests are Amy Edwards and Tina Mugglin of Blue Sky Daisies Publishing How Amy and Tina started Blue Sky Daisies How Cindy started publishing new editions of her books with Blue Sky Daisies A little more information about Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love Other communities in which morning time concepts can be used Why Amy and Tina feel this is such a perfect time for this book Coming in 2022, Blue S...2021-08-1935 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsHave a Happier Homeschool with Lynn Bruce “The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character––the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of his life is a preparing––is original disposition, modified, directed, expanded by education; by circumstances; later, by self-control and self-culture; above all, by the supreme agency of the Holy Ghost, even where that agency is little suspected, and as little solicited.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 2, Parents and Children Show Summary: Today’s guest is Lynn Bruce, a founding mem...2021-08-1244 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsWelcome to The New Mason Jar Podcast! “The question is not, — how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education — but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 3, School Education Show Summary: Welcome to the New Mason Jar Podcast from Cindy and Dawn! Who was Charlotte Mason? Who are Cindy Rollins and Dawn Duran? How did Cindy and Dawn come to know about Charlotte Mason? W...2021-07-3137 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsCharlotte Mason’s 20 Principles with Brandy Vencel “[T]he fact is, that a few broad essential principles cover the whole field, and these once fully laid hold of, it is as easy and natural to act upon them as it is to act upon our knowledge of such facts as that fire burns and water flows.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Brandy Vencel of Afterthoughtsblog.net How Brandy first came to know about Charlotte Mason Brandy’s perspective on the 20 Principles and why they are so important When to quit and why to persevere with challenging books How do C...2021-07-3144 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins“In Vital Harmony” with Karen Glass “The message for our age is, Believe in mind, and let education go straight as a bolt to the mind of the pupil.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, author and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory What, as a whole, are Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles? What exactly is a principle anyway? What prompted Karen to help homeschooling moms understand the “why” behind Charlotte Mason’s methods instead of just the “how” The crucial importance of the overarching principles of person-hood and the science of relations Why a Charlotte Mason education is...2021-07-3140 minThe New Mason Jar with Cindy RollinsFreedom Within the Philosophy with Leah Boden “There are few joys in life greater and more consistent than our joy in Beauty ” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guest is Leah Boden of Modern Miss Mason How Leah found out about the Charlotte Mason philosophy How Leah learned about and implemented the philosophy with freedom Who was Charlotte Mason anyway? What Leah’s book Modern Miss Mason is going to be all about The principles Leah thinks are key to understanding a Charlotte Mason education A few thoughts on narration Links Mentioned: Charlotte Mason Unboxed C...2021-07-3135 min