• Welcome to this special Q&A episode recorded live with Cindy's 2024 Summer Discipleship group
• In this episode we hear questions from participants and answers from Cindy Rollins, Dawn Duran, and Jeannette Tulis
• Lisa asks, "What about summers? Should we work hard to give our kids a 'real' summer break?"
• Tanya asks, "What kinds of books are best for the very young and are not considered twaddle?"
• Ellie asks, "How do I know how high is too high of a reading level for reading aloud? What can we do when children seem not to be engaging with a book?"
• Arlene asks, "How can we approach art study with children when the subject in the painting is scantily clad or nude?"
• Gretchen asks, "What advice do you have for those trying to balance pursuing knowledge for ourselves with trying to help our students earn the credits they need to go on to higher education?"

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It’s not too late to join the The 2024 Back to School Conference: Heart to Heart which is happening this week! Recordings of past sessions are all available after they have gone live. Sign up today at MorningTimeforMoms.com.

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It is not for nothing that the old painters, however diverse their ideas in other matters, all fixed upon one quality as proper to the pattern Mother. The Madonna, no matter out of whose canvas she looks at you, is always serene. This is a great truth, and we should do well to hang our walls with the Madonnas of all the early Masters if the lesson, taught through the eye, would reach with calming influence to the heart.

Charlotte Mason, School Education, p. 33

…knowledge…is no longer sacred and secular, great and trivial, practical and theoretical. All knowledge, dealt out to us in such portions as we are ready for, is sacred; knowledge is, perhaps, a beautiful whole, a great unity, embracing God and man and the universe, but having many parts which are not comparable with one another in the sense of less or more, because all are necessary and each has its functions.        Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, p. 324

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