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Author Archives: Kay Pelham
2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND
This makes me mightily nervous, but there it is. It is an idea I’ve had on my heart for years and years, and after pondering for the last few days about a word for the year, and going back and … Continue reading
Posted in Character, My Personal History
Tagged courage, friendship, honesty, humility, introversion, life is a mist, meaning, my brother James, not your own, resolutions
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On Joy, Heritage, and Community: Folk Songs
Folk songs are an important aspect of a Charlotte Mason education, but often, like music in any school, it gets pushed aside, considered just extra stuff, or forgotten altogether. Wendi Capehart, a member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, who passed away … Continue reading
Posted in History, Home School, Music
Tagged Charlotte Mason, community, connections, culture, fellowship, folk songs, heritage, history
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Trained to See
We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life. Charlotte Mason, “Ourselves”, p. 43 I spend these days … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, Nature, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged attention, caring, Charlotte Mason, Copywork, details, James, narration, nature study, phonics
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To Edna Joyce Ritter Davis on her 90th Birthday
Ethereal is how you must have looked with that snow-white hair as you criedDaddy, please don’t leave me. And your young widowed father took you by the handNever to send you off to live with another family again.And so from … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged commitment, faithfulness, Long Life, Mothering, Wifing
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On “Education is an Atmosphere”
I’ve been taking a Saturday morning class with Karen Glass on In Vital Harmony, a book about Charlotte Mason and her 20 Principles, and which Karen authored. I really need to blog through each chapter of In Vital Harmony, but … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, classroom environment, discipline, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, educational instruments, home environment, honesty, integrity, school environment, wisdom
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Thoughts on Talent on a Sunday Drive
This morning my husband, son, and I drove about 30 minutes to eat breakfast at one of our favorite little cafes. The interior is very log-cabiny, and more than the food (breakfast is my favorite meal to eat out), it … Continue reading
Charlotte Mason: Way Beyond Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips
There is the Courage of our opinions. By opinions I do not mean the loosely taken up catchwords of the moment, those things which ‘everybody says,’ and with which it is rather agreeable than otherwise to startle our less advanced … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, educational philosophy, honesty, humility, integrity, life to the full, made in His image
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