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Help! My Child Wants to Read Twaddle!
What should you do if your child wants to read twaddle? Sonya and Laura share some ideas for steering your child toward the good stuff.
Category Living Books
Posts and articles about identifying and using good living books that teem with ideas, not twaddle.
What Is Twaddle?
How did Charlotte herself define twaddle, and what was she warning us about?
Organizing a Large Home Library
Sonya talks with Karen Smith about how she organizes her large home library.
Pre-Reading Your Students’ Books
Sonya chats with Amber O'Neal Johnston about why it's important to pre-read and strategies for staying ahead.
Organizing Your Home Library
Sonya and Laura discuss how they organize their home libraries.
Favorite Living Books about Europe
Here's how to take a trip to Europe through some great living books.
Favorite Living Books about North America
Sonya shares her favorite living books about North America.
Favorite Living Books About Asia
Sonya shares some great living books about the continent of Asia.
Favorite Living Books about Africa
Sonya shares some of her favorite living books to help your children learn about the people who live on the continent of Africa.
Favorite Living Science Books for Grades 4–6
Karen Smith shares some of her favorite living science books for grades 4–6.
Favorite Living Books about the Middle East
Sonya shares her favorite living books about the Middle East.
What a Living Book Sounds Like
It seems like one of the hardest concepts to wrap your head around when you’re homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method is the concept of living ideas versus dry facts. Now, we give our children living ideas in several ways;…
Favorite Living History Books on Ancient Rome
Today we’re wrapping up our favorite history books series. We’ve covered five history time periods so far: Middle Ages and Renaissance, Early Modern, Modern Times, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece. Today we’ll share our top living books for studying Ancient…
Books as Windows
In the last post, we looked at how books can help our children form relations with themselves, and we talked about those books as mirrors. Today, we want to expand on another aspect of that and how books can help…
Books as Mirrors
The books that we give to our children help them form relations, those important relations that Charlotte Mason talked about so much, relating with God, relating with the universe around us, and relating with people, and that’s the aspect that…