There are perhaps few things more frustrating in our day as a homeschooling parent than a child who seems to have completely forgotten material you thought was already mastered. What are we to do when our questions are met with blank stares or narrations consist of glazed-over expressions? Mason had a lot to say about memory and even went so far as to call it a “habit,” one of the many habits her lessons instill in children. She even goes so far to say that “the children learn in order that they may remember” (1/154). This session explores Mason’s thoughts on memory and the practices that help strengthen it, alongside modern brain science’s findings into the mysterious realm of remembering, not just temporarily, but as a lifelong possession.

(45 minute video)