The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

On this episode of The New Mason Jar Podcast, Cindy and Dawn are joined by Cassie Detwiler, homeschooling mother of 5 and Communications Director for the CMEC to talk about managing a homeschool with young children in the mix
How Cassie first discovered Charlotte Mason's philosophy
How Cassie makes the most of the time she has
Ways Cassie implements a Charlotte Mason education in the early years
Some favorite occupations of Cassie's younger children during older children's lesson times
Ways to keep your perspective when facing challenges
For the full show notes on this episode, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/150.

On The New Mason Jar this week, Dawn and Cindy have a litte Q&A chat, including more information about their upcoming trip to Europe
How this trip even came about
What are some of the highlights of this trip going to be?
What is the idea of scaffolding, and was it a practice of Charlotte Mason?
To view the full show notes for this episode, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/149.

This episode of The New Mason Jar features a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Erin Daly, homeschool mom of two daughters, director of a local CM school program, and owner of Riverbend Press
Erin outlines the importance of Mason's principles and the consideration of how we spend our time
The value of different types of planning for time management
How to implement a block schedule in the Charlotte Mason paradigm
What is a logbook, and how is it used?
How this planning method works in Erin's own homeschool
When should parents begin introducing some of these planning tools to their children?
To get the full show notes for this episode, complete with quote and links to resources mentioned, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/148.

Today on The New Mason Jar Podcast, Cindy and Dawn are joined by Grace Russo, homeschool alum and homeschooling mother of 4 to talk about her new endeavor, Pennyworth Publishing
How did Grace hear about Charlotte Mason?
How Grace began illustrating books and started Pennyworth
What kinds of books does Pennyworth publish?
A little about Grace's background with poetry
What is the value of oral storytelling?
How can books be used to preserve the oral tradition?
What is Grace's vision for the future of Pennyworth?
To see the full show notes for this episode, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/147.

On The New Mason Jar Podcast this week, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Sarah Stonestreet of the Colson Center all about homeschooling girls
What is Sarah's family like, and how has she started to see differences between her girls and her boy?
A little about Sarah's special read-aloud times with her daughters
How to help girls navigate puberty and the plethora of choices they must make in the current culture
How Sarah helps her children understand their purpose and place in this particular time through relationships at home and out in the community
How can we raise strong, confident girls who have good relationships with their moms?
Learning to let go as daughters grow up
Embracing the "interruptions" of life as blessings