October 7, 2014

Adeline Bell: Pondering Charlotte Mason and Early Childhood by Dr. Donna Johnson

Grandparents have to be careful. Not everyone is as interested in their grandchildren as they are. Cute grandchild pictures and instances of clever grandchild behavior must […]
September 28, 2014

Listening with the Eyes by Rebekah Brown Hierholzer

My daughter, 3 years old, is crazy about favorites. I mean crazy in the sense that she walks around endlessly asking me what my favorites are […]
August 31, 2014

For The Children’s Sake-Please Stand Aside! by Shannon Whiteside

Implementing Charlotte Mason’s principles into my homeschool in the past several years has been a journey of releasing educational ideas that I once held dear. As […]
August 10, 2014

My First Year at Gillingham Charter School by Olivia Groody

Life is a strange, unpredictable thing. It took me longer to figure this out than it should have. Even so, by the time I was seven […]
July 27, 2014

Business vs. Desire by Maura Timko

The following blog appeared originally on the Great River Facebook page as part of a discussion about the use of digital tools in the family. It […]
July 19, 2014

Living Math…Is it Possible? – On Purpose and Intentional Living-Including Mathematics by Christina Pittman

In an effort to make this applicable to the greater audience, I won’t insert much of my own personal journey with math, but you should know […]
June 17, 2014

Celebrating the Centenary of the PNEU Liberal Education For All Movement 1914-2014 by Margaret Coombs

What was the Liberal Education for All Movement of 1914? It was the introduction of the Mason Method of educating children mainly by books of literary […]
May 25, 2014

A Tale of Two Galleries by Dr. Jennifer Spencer

Monet’s Garden at Argenteuil A lady walks in to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with a group of high school students. She is confident because, […]
May 11, 2014

Mining in the Archives by Kerri Forney

Several years ago at the national Charlotte Mason conference, Deani and Meghan Van Pelt presented a wonderful plenary session on the L’Umile Pianta, the magazine published […]