EP 35: How She Learns: My Personal Continuing Education Journey
Today is the FINAL installment of this Learning How to Live Series -- which makes this the END of Season 4! What I tried to do, and hope I a...
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For many years now, Afterthoughts has been a sort of intellectual watering hole for all of you classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas out there – I like to call you Afterthinkers. Yo...
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20 of 38 episodesEP 34: A Mama's Continuing Education: Oh, the Endless Possibilities!
Today is NOT just a review. Yes, we walk through everything we've learned over this huge series and remind ourselves of the amazingly numero...
EP 33: Becoming a Charlotte Mason Teacher in a Utilitarian World
Today we begin to end our Learning How to Live series. We're heading toward application. Before we get too practical, we need to discuss the...
EP 32: Local Group Meetings and Conferences for Continuing Education
Today we continue with our Learning How to Live series. Up until this point, we've mostly talked about things that can be done privately – r...
EP 31: Magazines as Continuing Education
Today we continue with our Learning How to Live series by discussing magazines and the part they played in the education of Charlotte Mason'...
EP 30: On Mother Culture
Today, we take a look at something called Mother Culture. If you found the idea of a Mothers' Education Course, which we talked about in Epi...
EP 29: The Mother's Compass
Today, I'm interrupting our Charlotte Mason series to bring you this season's special conversation. Brittney McGann is back with me today; I...
EP 28: Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course: The Content
Today's episode is our second on Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course. If you recall, last episode we talked about the HISTORY of the...
EP 27: A Brief History of Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course
Are you ready to take a look at Charlotte Mason's Mothers' Education Course? Before we talk content, we need to know our history, and I thin...
EP 26: A Note on Lectures at the Ambleside Teachers' College
Today's episode is super short, but still worth hearing. We briefly speculate on what lectures at Miss mason's college might have contained,...
EP 25: At College with Charlotte Mason
In today's installment of our Learning How To Live series, we take a close look at what it was like for the students who went to Ambleside a...
EP 24: The Self-Education of Miss Charlotte Mason
Today, we're taking a look at Charlotte Mason's personal habits. She was quite the well-read lady, and it turns out this didn't happen by ac...
EP 23: Learning How to Live
Welcome to Season 4 of AfterCast! I'm so glad you're here! Today, we're kicking off a new series of episodes. This whole season is going to...
EP 22: A Living Reproduction of the Past
For this final episode of the season, we're tackling some tough questions: why are names like classical education and great conversation so...
EP 21: How Education Is Like Sandpaper
In a Charlotte Mason education, there is no specialization. All students are to study all subjects. The question is WHY? Today, we're going...
EP 20: Christian Conflict with the Inklings
Today's episode is a crossover episode with the Charlotte Mason Poetry Podcast , and I'm chatting with CMP's very own Brittney McGann! Britt...
EP 19: How to Move Forward
So, you figured out something is wrong with your homeschool. Good. The question is what to do next. A lot of us find it paralyzing to discov...
EP 18: Putting the Generosity Back in Generous Education
Charlotte Mason prescribe a "broad and generous education" for her students. For a variety of reasons, this can be a daunting task. Today, w...
EP 17: What Did Charlotte Mason Mean by "Short Lessons?"
If you're thinking that because Charlotte Mason prescribed short lessons, this means your high schooler should only do 20 minutes of math, y...
EP 16: How to Help Your Children with Hard Books
It's easy to say that our children should read hard books, but what does that look like in practice? Do we just throw them into the deep end...