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Masterly Inactivity
Do you ever feel like you’re on the Mommy See-saw? “I must teach my child to obey, yet I don’t want to be a dictator.” “I want my child to enjoy his childhood, but I can’t just allow him to run wild and do anything he wants to do.”
Welcome to the Mommy See-saw. Up and down, back and forth we teeter, wishing we knew the secret to keeping a happy balance. Charlotte Mason called that happy balanced state Masterly Inactivity.
Welcome to the Mommy See-saw. Up and down, back and forth we teeter, wishing we knew the secret to keeping a happy balance. Charlotte Mason called that happy balanced state Masterly Inactivity.
45 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2007
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Sonya Shafer
105 books102 followersSonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte’s gentle and effective methods of education. Her passion for homeschooling her own four daughters grew into helping others and then into Simply Charlotte Mason, which publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at https://simplycharlottemason.com/.
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September 6, 2024
Short quick read with reminders on how to encourage my children without over micro managing them.
- “As Charlotte explained, “They are free under authority, which is liberty; to be free without authority is license.” They are free to run about and explore within the secure boundaries of our fence. But they are not free to tear down the fence and run wild.”
- “You see, the parent whose authority is not securely in place thinks of this type of situation more as “giving in” than as granting a favor. A parent whose authority is secure knows that granting a favor will not affect her authority. She is still in charge. And she gets a little joy from being able to please her small ones in this way as a special treat.”
- “The mere blessed fact of the parental relationship and of that authority which belongs to it, by right and by nature, acts upon the children as do sunshine and shower on a seed in good soil. But the fussy parent, the anxious parent, the parent who explains overmuch, who commands overmuch, who excuses overmuch, who restrains overmuch, who interferes overmuch, even the parent who is with the children overmuch, does away with the dignity and simplicity of that relationship.”
- “Every waking moment is filled with their needs, their ambitions, their faults, their strengths, their victories, their stomach aches, their macaroni and cheese. If we’re not careful, we end up so focused on them that they start focusing on themselves too.”
- “As Charlotte explained, “They are free under authority, which is liberty; to be free without authority is license.” They are free to run about and explore within the secure boundaries of our fence. But they are not free to tear down the fence and run wild.”
- “You see, the parent whose authority is not securely in place thinks of this type of situation more as “giving in” than as granting a favor. A parent whose authority is secure knows that granting a favor will not affect her authority. She is still in charge. And she gets a little joy from being able to please her small ones in this way as a special treat.”
- “The mere blessed fact of the parental relationship and of that authority which belongs to it, by right and by nature, acts upon the children as do sunshine and shower on a seed in good soil. But the fussy parent, the anxious parent, the parent who explains overmuch, who commands overmuch, who excuses overmuch, who restrains overmuch, who interferes overmuch, even the parent who is with the children overmuch, does away with the dignity and simplicity of that relationship.”
- “Every waking moment is filled with their needs, their ambitions, their faults, their strengths, their victories, their stomach aches, their macaroni and cheese. If we’re not careful, we end up so focused on them that they start focusing on themselves too.”
March 13, 2018
Short and sweet, available for free on the Simply Charlotte Mason website. This lovely little ebook is encouraging, inspiring and peppered with wonderful quotes from Miss.Mason herself on parenting.
January 13, 2011
Brief, to the point, full of good quotable quotes from Charlotte Mason, this was a good refresher on the type of mother (and especially homeschool mother) I am striving to be.
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