For a peaceful home, for a peaceful world
“In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it spent for the most part out in the fresh air.“ Charlotte Mason wrote this over 100…
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I am delighted to bring you this interview with Rachel Stevens who runs Little Gulls Beach and Forest School in Kent, UK. Rachel is a creative, warm, driven mama who is bringing some really inspiring projects to life, and I am so pleased to share this conversation with you. Can you introduce yourself and your…
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We have recently started using the Exploring Nature With Children curriculum. It’s a brilliant resource with weekly nature walk inspiration, extension activity ideas, and a list of secondary materials including poems, art works, fiction and non-fiction book lists, and classification information. We are unlikely to follow it strictly every week, but it’s a brilliant source…
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I always find that it gets to a certain point in February – crocuses and snowdrops are popping up everywhere, daffodils are appearing in gardens and by supermarket checkouts, the days are suddenly feeling longer and lighter – when I start to really crave spring. Do you feel it too? Unfortunately, the weather man tells…
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“We spread an abundant and delicate feast… and each small guest assimilates what he can.” – Charlotte Mason Charlotte Mason was writing here about the need to provide our children with a rich, diverse, interesting, tempting, beautiful education. An education which invites them to consume diverse ideas and stories and concepts, tempting them in with…
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June is here! And so (although I’m currently looking out of the window at rain) I’m declaring it summer in our home. To celebrate summer over the next few weeks and months we will be: Spending time outside. Hanging out in parks, exploring woods, running through commons, dipping in ponds, paddling in streams and pools,…
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