“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children.”
― The Original Home School Series
― The Original Home School Series
“The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.”
― Home Education
― Home Education
“I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.”
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations, much questioning, if we over-moralize, depend on the work book to work the mind, what thinking is left for the child to do?”
― A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
― A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
“Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is a wonderful way to disarm it.”
― Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood
― Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood
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