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Homeschooling Outside the Box


Jun 28, 2019

Are you in the Early Years Stage?

If you have a 0-6-year-old, you are living in what Charlotte Mason referred to as "the early years." In her first volume, Home Education, Miss Mason urged mothers 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." If you think that's a challenge in our hectic postmodern world, you're right. But it's not impossible.

Today I chat with Leah Martin from "My Little Robins" on how to make Charlotte Mason's ideas a reality. We also discuss why the early years should be preserved as a "quiet growing time" instead of relinquishing them to academics as the culture continually calls us to do and some consequences we're seeing as a society because of this unnatural shift.

In this episode you'll hear:

  • the story of a former public school teacher turned Ambleside teacher turned CM homeschool mama
  • why academics in the early years is usually not developmentally appropriate
  • why the Great Outdoors is the best classroom for the early years
  • mental, emotional and physical benefits to holding off on academics
  • how the segregation mindset of home and school is disrupting the early years

Show Notes