Home is where you start from: From my reading and thinking

Monday, March 19, 2007

From my reading and thinking

thoughts I am pondering from my reading...

From The Organized Home Schooler:
"...If we're too busy to consider the consequences of how we spend our time, then we're too busy.
There's a time to be busy, and there's a time to be still. Being still is required before being busy. "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). Without the stillness, we don't know how to be busy, when or where to be busy, or with what to be busy. When we're not still, we can't hear God or know His will. When we're too busy, we're about our own business and not His." page 51

From Real Learning: education in the heart of the home:
"A nature notebook, filled with drawings and descriptions of discoveries becomes a personal diary of growth for a child. Looking back upon what he has encountered, what he has learned, and what touched him, he begins to understand himself a little better and he is drawn ever closer to his Creator.
...Don't look on nature study as something to cross off your "to do" list, look at it as food for your soul-and your child's...A nature walk will offer you endless opportunities for lively discussion and equal opportunities for reverent silence." page 97

From A Charlotte Mason Companion:
..." I think Charlotte was very clever to encourage a child's further study into the things he naturally "takes to". Most children want to learn more about the world around them. The best way to do this is to give them opportunities for direct contact with nature where they live.
...As Charlotte said, "There is no kind of knowledge to be had in these early years so valuable to children as that which they get for themselves, of the world they live in, let them at once get into touch with nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life. We are all meant to be naturalists, each to his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things." page 255

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posted at 10:37 PM
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At 6:37 AM, Mrs. Darling said...: Good thoughts Jenny. Charlotte Mason is full of this kind of logic. It all makes so much sense but applying it is so hard sometimes.
At 10:22 PM, Anonymous said...: Hi Jenny. I stumbled upon your blog today through, umm, oh I am not sure. Maybe it was Shannon over at Rocks...maybe not.
I just wanted to say that today I felt exraordinarily encouraged by you!!

I will be back often for I feel like this has been a salve to my aching mamma's heart. The heart that aches to give my children the best of me and yet being so beat down by so many negative people and thoughts.

Thank you for your simple encouraging nuggets of wisdom - pertaining to the proper education and rearing of our sweet lovelies!! (And by proper, I mean an attitude, not even necessarily a practice!!)
At 12:09 PM, Hen Jen said...: Mrs. Darling, so glad you stopped by!
I enjoy your blog.

Stacey, so glad you stopped by. Your comment really encouraged me, thanks.
I enjoyed my visit over at your blog, congratulations on your upcoming adoption, how exciting!

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