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Charlotte Mason’s Principle 2: Good & Evil Natur

Charlotte Mason’s Principle 2: Good & Evil Nature of a Child
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Children are not born bad but with possibilities for good and for evil.
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When you first read this statement, it appears to go against Christian principles. What about the sin nature that Adam and Eve passed down? Aren’t we all sinners with the likelihood to be bad? Yes, but this statement is actually referring to choices.
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Children are not born as a blank piece of paper, they have choices. They have a will to make the right one. We, as parents and teachers, can teach and train our children to make good decisions.
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While education alone is not the answer for godly decisions, it’s a vessel to fill the mind with truth and knowledge. The Bible is the perfect place to start — the infallible word! Then, our heart can be nurtured to accept these truths and convince the will to make the right choice.
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As the Bible teaches, “Train up a child in the way they should go, and they will not depart from it”. An important part of training is teaching habit forming techniques.
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As Charlotte herself said, “The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”
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Read all about CM’s second principle here: https://laramolettiere.com/charlotte-mason-principle-2-good-evil-nature/
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And visit our #charlottemasonmondays friends below to learn about their views on the subject of the nature of children:

@beautyof_homeschool
@agentlehomeandschool
@jenniferpepito
@that.whichislovely
@ivonne.v.lopez

Self-education- how are you modeling this remarkab

Self-education- how are you modeling this remarkable and imperative habit?
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We often forego our self-education in this culture that glorifies “busy”, so it has become even more important to be intentional in scheduling our time wisely to ensure we are still learning. Invest time in learning- read, learn new skills, and develop new habits. Give yourself a plate at the table where you teach your children the Feast.
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What we do speaks to our children so much more than what we say. Show them that life made all the more rich when you fill it with intentional investment in Truth, goodness, and beauty.
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#charlottemason #charlottemasonirl #motherculture
#charlottemasoneducation
#learningwell #wildandfreechildren #howwecharlottemason

One way we’ve been able to cater to the needs of

One way we’ve been able to cater to the needs of the boys’ various learning challenges and styles is through field trips. It’s an incredible way to bring history to life, to make great works of art tangible, and to help our children understand the humanity of people they never met.
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Both boys are working on Apologetics for Trail Life so visiting the @creationmuseum and @arkencounter just made sense. Plus their mama and Poppy had both been wanting to go 😁.
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We had an amazing time. We all learned so much and left with many new things to consider. As it always goes with such trips. What a blessing!
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Do you incorporate field trips into your #homeschool learning? I would encourage you to if you haven’t!
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#everydaygraces #charlottemasonirl #homeschoollookslikethis

“Here I raise my Ebenezer; Here by Thy great he

“Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;”
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Ebenezer stones are markers. And there are things that need remembered, if you’ll forgive my Appalachian eloquence.
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I once was lost, but now am found.
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I was blessed to become a mother twice over.
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The Lord redeemed the days when he called our family to homeschool.
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I have no greater joy than to see my children walking in grace as brothers in Christ.
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I am sanctified more each day through the mercies of my God as I parent and lead these precious ones.
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I have the privilege of watching my boys grow into men of valor.
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I have a husband who leads us and shepherds our boys by words and example.
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We have a church family that takes great care of us, loves us, and challenges us.
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There are no small joys, friend. Every moment we see the glory and grace of our amazing God is a moment worth making another Ebenezer marker and proclaiming His goodness to the world.
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I have seen the goodness of God in the broken world in which we live. I have seen the glimpses of glory in the shimmering drops of rain as they collect so many rainbows on the petals of a rose. I have seen the faithfulness of my Lord in answered prayers, especially those that were answered in ways I didn’t want. I have tasted the waters of grief and been thankful that they made me thirst more for Jesus and the world to which I belong. Do you belong there, too, friend?
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My hope is that someday we will meet in Glory, and will know that while we traversed this life as internet strangers but friends there was never a moment we weren’t cheering each other on toward the cry of “Well done!”
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May the peace of the Lord be with you!
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#everydaygraces

But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the

But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face. - C.S. Lewis.
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Sometimes to be courageous requires that we be reminded of whose we are. As you begin this homeschool journey or continue on the path with dedication, dear friend, remember that parenthood is a holy calling. And Christ will always equip us for what He is calling us to. Including the education of the precious souls entrusted to our care.
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May your week be filled with rest in Him, adventures, and stories to make you brave 💖.
With grace, Lara
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Today we’re discussing my favorite of Charlotte’s principles, the primary recognition that children are born persons. This concept has shaped and changed my views of motherhood and education in more ways than I can count. From my musings:
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“ A child as a person includes the capacious nature of their hearts. They have an innate ability to love with all the fierceness and loyalty we imagine in the hearts of the bravest heroes. Where we grownups often struggle, they are so earnest and sincere in prayer and gentleness and forgiveness. They still have a sin nature, just like adults, but they have a conscience and a bit of humility, too, that is exclusive to childhood. Their innocence – perhaps lack of cynicism is more apropos – allows them the freedom to ask any question that comes of what they see or hear.”
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When you recognize your child as a person- created Imago Dei and with a God given purpose- your perspective shifts to a more eternal one and the methods you employ in parenting and in personal life change dramatically. I am not the same person I was before I met Charlotte and I am grateful that the Lord led her to share her passion for children and personal responsibility in writing so that we might benefit from her insight, too.
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You can visit our blog and dig into the idea of children born as persons here: https://www.laramolettiere.com/charlotte-mason-children-born-persons/
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See how #cmmchildrenarebornpersons has benefited our friends:

@beautyof_homeschool
@agentlehomeandschool
@my_four_little_bears
@charlottemasonschoolhouse
@lovingleadinglittles
@that.whichislovely
@delightfullyfeasting
@juiceboxhomeschool
@blessedwithmotherhood
@little_worldwanderers
@alearningwewillgo
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#charlottemason #charlottemasonirl #motherculture #homeschoolcollective #charlottemasonliving #homeschoollookslikethis #homeschoolrocks #homeschooling #living_homeschool #homeeducation #intentionalmotherhood
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#learningwell #wildandfreechildren #honestmotherhood #howwecharlottemason #charlottemasonmondays

It was our first day of summer term today. I went

It was our first day of summer term today. I went against my own advice and started on a Monday. Ripped the Bandaid off, if you will.
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It went about as well as could be expected 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️😭 So I’m putting something pretty here in a little square to remind me and you, dear heart, that blessings and beauty abound even in the difficult days.
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It’s after 5 o’clock and we just finished up for the day so I’m off to make a quick dinner and then Trail Life tonight. Whew.
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Here’s your reminder that what you see online is merely a façade, and that everyone has struggles in real life. Enjoy the sanctification this glorious #homeschool life offers and keep on loving what must be done.
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#everydaygraces

Friendship is such a wondrous gift! I’m wishing

Friendship is such a wondrous gift! I’m wishing I could sit for tea with my dearest friend today, but as she is hundreds of miles away and busy homeschooling too, I’ll say an extra prayer for her and drink an extra cup in her honor.
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Who is a friend you’re thankful to have and can be unabashedly yourself with?
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#everydaygraces

Before you begin home education you must realize t

Before you begin home education you must realize that everything you’ve ever thought about “education” is most likely wrong. Government schools are created in the Prussian model if you are interested in researching the purposes of that, and John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education is a great place to begin.
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Second, almost no person has the patience to homeschool. Only by the grace of God do most of us make it day to day. Be prepared to feel like a failure, to lose your temper, to be humbled, to be sanctified. Also be prepared to feel elated, to feel loved, to find the holiness in the mundane, and to truly understand what it means that our children are created Imago Dei.
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Education is a life, but an excellent education is a life well lived. A well lived life is full of intention, commitment, diligence, mistakes, gratitude, humility, grace, honesty, truth, and beauty. The goal of home education should not be focused solely, or even primarily, on academics.
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Rightly ordered relationships and affections for ourselves, modeled for our children, must come first. The Lord is a kind Father and our submission to His will to homeschool is but the first step. Guiding our children toward rightly ordered lives and praying for the Holy Spirit to grow the seeds we plant is more important than the 3 R’s. If you remember this each morning, regardless of how the day goes, you will be able to rest each night knowing God’s grace and love cover every shortcoming.
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Hold fast to Him and be encouraged- no worthy thing comes easily but through Him we can do everything He calls us to. And our children’s hearts are absolutely worth every tear, gray hair, and heart exploding moment of joy that home education brings.
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See more #cmbeforeyoubegin tips here:

@homewithmytinies
@mylittlerobins
@min.j.hwang
@delightfullyfeasting
@juiceboxhomeschool
@agentlehomeschool
@mightyoaksandarrows
@little_worldwanderers
@learning_to_feast
@kindlingwild
@that.whichislovely
@littlehouselearningco
@jenniferpepito
@my_four_little_bears
@lovingleadinglittles

Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to

Pied Beauty

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
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