Is this book, "Our Neighbors, Their Stories" only available in volume 1?

Hallelujah!!! I’m blessed and favored with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and support the work of God and the church. For Your glory, LORD! HALLELUJAH!

Overeating is bad, just as malnutrition is. Short regular meals are important. Scientifically, the longer a lesson is, the less of it our brains are able to store

You nailed it!

Best video yet! I had to write this down. Wonderful advice! Thank you Sonya!

Thank you so much for this video as this will be my first year homeschooling starting next week year-round! Originally I planned for six weeks on and one week off but that quickly changed after I learned about the three weeks on and one week off you mentioned. I must admit I did use ChatGPT to help me decide which one to pick (3 vs 6 weeks on) I let it know my MBTI personality type as well as my OCEAN results and asked it which one would be better for me as a teacher and for my children’s ages and and the pros and cons for each, and it gave me a great rationale for which one would likely be best which was three weeks on one week off and then I asked to actually write out the schedule after I gave the weeks off that I’d like to have off in the year and how many hours total per day of schooling we’ll do over six days a week and it drafted the calendar for the year for us and with that we have so much cushion space outside of the week offs and the vacation weeks I selected for potentially other events or (surprises in our schedule). All to say thank you so much.

WOW! Sonya I never imagined a homeschool program done by lunch time! THANK YOU very very much for sending these different program schedules. Truly truly helpful!

Step 1 - Pick a Good Living Book Step 2 - Look Ahead and Behind Step 3 - Read the Passage Step 4 - Have Your Student Retell the Passage Step 5 - Discuss Any related Questions or Ideas

This is great! Thank you for the practical steps and examples. I will have 1st, 4th, 6th and 8th graders this fall. Along with a preschooler and a 1 yr old! Woooo!!! Yes, all prayers welcome. 😅

I was a beginner homeschooling mother in the early 1990’s and a lady named Sally Clarkson was trying desperately to introduce us to the Charlotte Mason educational methods. Unfortunately, many of us at that time were still too indoctrinated into the governmental forms of education and couldn’t truly comprehend what incredible information we were discarding. Despite that, two of our children are homeschooling their own children and I can’t wait to share your channel with them!!

How about for a Kindergarten who doesn’t narrate yet? 2 books are enough too?

Flexibility! Excellent! One size never fits all.

I love this, I'm looking for advice though, do I stop my children from picking up our read aloud before our read aloud time? I battle with my kids on this, they really love to read but I would have my bascuit and they would go through it and I feel it spoils our chapter time and I don't how to address it with discouraging them, any advice will be appreciated please🙏

For individual subjects while I'm working on math with my 1st grader what would my 2nd grader be doing and then would you let the 1st take a break while you work with math with 2nd grader and bring 1st grader back for reading after (even with changing subjects my kids don't do well back to back subjects) also I have a 4th grader who's less independent than I'd like so I'm not sure what he should do while I'm working with the first 2 kids. (Maybe I need to look into less teacher led curriculum)

That's if everyone cooperates & we don't get interrupted 5 bazillion times 😅

This is wonderful! I'm a homeschooling mom to 8, and simplifying our kids' rythyms is always my goal. This will help so much.❤

Oh thank you!! I was getting so overwhelmed with so much reading. Now I can be confident in only doing 2-3 books a day.

I need to hear these reminders daily. Thank you❤

What if we did it all wrong and our children are not so small any more? Where do we begin to change things? It feels so overwhelming..

I needed this. With nine children and 6 of them being boys, our house is anything but quite. 😂 Thank you for this video!

Thanks

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Hi there... is there a way to do this with a cottage school? Im a high school maths teacher, homeschooled my own kids (one year left to go) and already excited about doing Simply Charlotte Mason with other children.

I think I'd remember the facts better from the second account anyhow. The first is good for reference, not motivation or retention.

This is a lovely and helpful video. Thank you! So inspiring and Spirit-filled.

The color coded tree!!! Yes!!!

How do I reconcile a Classical style of education that is giving kids a foundation of information that uses facts as a launching off point?

I just watched and wooooow! Amazing recommendations, thanks

We hear ya Charlotte

Insightful ❤ Thank you😊

Another excellent video. Thank you! Love the CM approach.

I have someone with a particular interest and am having trouble finding good books one easier than the other and would appreciate any help, advice, suggestions. The topics are (1) color -- how we see them, what creates them, theories and much harder (2) latest info on how the brain works, i.e neuroscience

Thanks SO much for this!!

Praying for you!!!!!

Such good gems

This was spot on&I agree wholeheartedly!👍💯Thanku!😍Prayers for you,Ms Sonya.🙏💝

Love it! I will say that the facts only version is important to learn too….facts only is how the legal world works so it may be important for children to hang on to facts and remember them quickly as well.

So so helpful! Excellent. Thank you!

This was excellent!

Unfortunately not all adhd have the h part and can mask and cope and even do well in school until adults without treatment, and then they can’t anymore. I have two who have adult dx and one (the girl) who always struck me as adhd but no one else agreed with me, she calmed down, developed all the comorbidities by internalizing everything. The other, my son, never was hyperactive but has always internalized it, developed the comorbidities and is still struggling with those and is very angry with us for our failures. I tried to not remind, etc. nothing worked it just made him anxious if he thought something important would be forgotten and anxious if he was reminded. We couldn’t win. And neither could he. Both kids grades never suffered.

Thank you SCM for sharing these podcasts! 🥰

My oldest really wants an ant farm. I might get her one now. Lol

This is the best explanation of living books so far that I’ve heard. Glad I can share this with my family so they can understand the difference and benefit of homeschooling.

Wow those two stories revealed so much to me about learning. Thank you

Very practical. I so appreciate the stress on everyone is not the same. One of the things I that stands out to me about this program is that you are not “dogmatic” about how education should be. The framework is given, help and resources are provided, and support is available to the parents, but not a “my way or the highway” approach. It is refreshing.

Oh my goodness, this is a treasure trove of help! I took notes with my dual processor ADHD brain, listening and typing simultaneously or sorting laundry because my brain can't be processing while I'm doing a task with my hands. But in the hour it took to get through it, I had a paradigm shift regarding the practice of habits. I thought I was just terrible at it. I have the three Laying Down the Rails books and they are wonderful, and they work for so many people. I worked through 'Ourselves' in the SCM Book Study FB group, and my Kingdom of Man-Soul seemed to not work as linearly as Charlotte explained. She would have honored and relished the expert knowledge about the brain had she been alive today, but she worked with what she had very well. When it comes to habits in my own life and building them in my children, the daily showing up and getting it done seemed like a far-off mountain that I'd never be able to get to. (Much like the mountain of laundry that paralyzes me as it laughs at me from my couch every day.) I've known the five steps to mentor a new skill but it didn't seem really achievable in the big picture because I overthought it. I can do those things mentioned in the tidying a bedroom walkthrough. I can do that with each of my kids without getting overwhelmed a lot of days. That's a method, rather than a formula and that's the secret sauce; formulas make sense to ADHD brains but as we know people aren't formulas! People are persons with a vast individual neuro-verse within. See, every member of our family has some sort of neurodiversity. We are a bowl of fruit loops all shoved up against one another in a little house, while the house is also a school, and striving to be a haven of rest. I personally gleaned edification for my own self here, and for my children. I have a plan written out, or at least one thing to implement today. After I get through this pile of laundry. Of course, that's why I'm listening to Sonya. I find I'm always listening to Sonya while I'm doing laundry. ;-) I am going to start thinking of 'Laying Down the Rails' for my children and I as 'Laying Down the Rails: Taking the Scenic Route'.

My oldest has special education needs, and short lessons and helping attention span is what attracted me to CM in the first place. I can only get around 10 minutes before my son gets brain fatigue and won’t give any more attention to his lesson. If he knows he only has a short lesson to work with he’ll happily give me his full attention (to the best of his ability- and yes snacks as motivation are often involved) and over the past year I’ve noticed a huge improvement in his work. I’ve found patience, diligence and consistency with his short lessons and simply sticking to his curriculum, even if the penny didn’t seem to drop yet, has been the gentlest method. He eventually always gets it and is improving one short lesson at a time, one day at a time! When I pulled him out of school he could barely write and had absolutely no understanding of elementary maths like addition or subtraction. Thank God he’s coming along in leaps and bounds, and in his own time, not being pressured and compared to other students by an anxious and overworked teacher of 25 pupils who needs all students to work at the same pace in order to keep things going! Homeschooling, especially this CM’s beautifully simple, stress-free and effective method, has been so much help to us.

Very true!!!

Absolutely ❤

This was so helpful. I am looking forward to making my way through the other videos on this topic. We are starting formal lessons in the fall and I am looking for a math curriculum that suits my son and I. I have looked at abeka, math u see, singapore, saxon, montessori, the good and the beautiful, and Simply Charlotte Mason. I keep coming back to SCM because it seems to be the most comprehensive that will lay the foundation for understanding the principles, go at my son's pace (which is faster than mine), and help me teach even though I struggled with math as a child. How would this compare to a Montessori approach?- Kat