For the Children’s Sake
This is the book that gave me my start in applying Charlotte Mason’s principles. I wrote about my experience with this book here. I highly recommend reading this book whether you’re just beginning to homeschool or you have been homeschooling for a while, and you’re starting to experience burnout. I have loved our mode of homeschooling for all of these years. Anyone who only uses textbooks and workbooks should really check this out to see if you and your children would enjoy some of the methods that CM suggested and the concepts that Susan Schaeffer Macaulay lays out in this book. You might just adapt a few things in your homeschool day and find that the burnout is gone and delight has come to your homeschool.
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
