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{Michele, as Dolores Umbridge with her children} 
{Michele’s Family in their historic Cafe}
“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would be able to hold herself in ‘wise passiveness,’ and would not fret her children by continual interference, even of hand or eye––she would let them be.” (3/33-34)
For the Children’s Sake, Macaulay
A Charlotte Mason Companion, Andreola
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This was helpful. I don’t work, but our first year of school has me feeling very swamped. During our first term, my Grandma died, and there has been an ongoing relationship strain in the extended family that I have been trying to mediate. Just this morning I had to give up on doing school because of talking on the phone and packing for the funeral. I have hardly found any time for my own reading.
Ashley,
We have all had these seasons. Try to guard the three morning hours as
much as possible, entrust your days to the Lord, and if the morning
lessons are lost, it is God’s concern.
-Liz
Thank you for another very good and helpful podcast! Michele did such a good job! Thank you, Michele!
ADE podcasts are fabulous! I’m so thankful for them. How I long for all your podcasts to be put in book form, word by word, so we will have them in print form to refer to…It’s more difficult to go back to an audio version/podcast and find what is wanted to refer to for help. And there is so much with all these podcasts to refer to that I don’t have in written form.
Sheila,
Thanks for your kind words. May I commend written narration to you. It is a terrifying prospect for us to think of our every word being written!–and there is no goal for that, sorry to say. If you keep teaching and reading Mason, I guarantee you will know more all the time because that is how we all have learned what we know–and we’re still learning!
Thank you for your reply and encouraging words that I do written narration of your podcasts. I wanted to think this over more before I replied. Your suggestion is a wonderful one, but it also surprised me for a few reasons. First of all, Charlotte Mason encouraged much more actual reading of living books than lectures (but I love the ADE podcasts!!!). Charlotte Mason and several others involved with the P.N.E.U. gave lectures, as we well know. It was lectures Charlotte Mason gave to help raise funds for a good cause that led to her putting her lectures in book form so we have her education philosophy preserved for generations after her. The Parents’ Review magazine she published often had the lectures of others put in writing and published in that publication now being preserved for our benefit today. It is the published works that have helped preserve her work for the generations after Miss Mason. The work that ADE is doing as well as the work of CMI, Dean and Karen Andreola, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and her husband Ranald, Sage Parnassus and the Living Education Retreats, Charlotte Mason Poetry, and the newer work of many others who are being faithful to Miss Mason’s amazing work and educational philosophy are such a blessing to us today and so much needed. But I long for all this work to be preserved. The best way to preserve it is through written form. We today need help to apply Miss Mason’s philosophy, and I hope and pray the work being done today through ADE and other faithful teachers of Miss Mason will be preserved for generations to come. I’m so thankful for all the research and work that you ladies are doing at ADE, Nicole, Emily, and Liz. I do so long for your podcasts to be preserved in written form, and preserved in audio form as well as you have it with your amazing podcasts. It is very much needed. I understand why you feel terrified about that, but please, think of the blessing that would be to so many and to future generations.
With love and gratefulness,
Sheila