HeyJaredCarol Hudson’s Substack
After three decades of home education, my 7 children have graduated. I write about home education, books & looking after our spirits, souls & bodies.
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Some More of my Favourite Victorian Era Novels (opens the original)
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Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859)<img alt="Adam Bede" class="sizing-normal" height="446" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5PoX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
Bringing your horse to the water... (opens the original)
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One of the many reasons I was attracted to Charlotte Mason’s ideas on education was her emphasis on a wide and generous curriculum, that is, setting children in a large room:Our aim in Education is to give a Full Life. - We begin to see what we want. Children make large demands upon us. We wish to place before the child open doors to many avenues of instruction and delight, in each one of which he should find quickening thoughts... We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests…Tho
Poetry & Intellectual Culture (opens the original)
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This article was published in the Common Place Quarterly (CPQ) magazine, Volume 007: Issue 002. ‘CPQ exists to encourage homeschool families in the practical application of the Charlotte Mason Method by creating a place outside of the internet where timeless ideas regarding Mason’s principles can be shared. We offer a quiet growing place for parents in a digitally saturated world.’Poetry takes first rank as a means of intellectual culture. Goethe tells us that we ought to see a good picture, hea
Historical Fiction for Around 12 years of Age & Up (opens the original)
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The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Dale SnedekerThe Forgotten Daughter is an outstanding book by an author who was well-known for her dedication to historical accuracy. Caroline Dale Snedeker (1871-1956) wrote numerous books for children and this book, a Newbery Honor Book in 1934, is a fine example of the research she undertook to produce an historically authentic work of fiction.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sIKF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
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