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Welcome to episode 15 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education. 

In this episode, he is joined by special guest Karen Kern and together they offer some tips for teaching stories that are essentially "morality tales" (like fables, for example) with moralizing them. 

To submit a question for a future episode go here. https://www.circeinstitute.org/resources-web-features/ask-andrew

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In this episode of The Mason Jar Q&A, Cindy and David answer questions from a LIVE audience at the 2016 CiRCE Conference in Charleston, SC. During this live event, we launched Cindy's new book, Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey Towards Sanctification (MereMotherhood.com). 

Topics include:

  • Whether Charlotte Mason and Classical Education are compatible, featuring special guest, Karen Glass (8:00)
  • What piece of advice Cindy would give to young moms (27:00)
  • What it means to a mom that her children are "born persons" (32:30)
  • What helped Cindy avoid the thought that all her homeschooling efforts are for naught (36:15)
  • What she likes to read to her grandkids (39:20)
  • Why Cindy doesn't like the term "child-centric" in relation to Charlotte Mason or classical education (43:00)
  • And what Cindy hopes people will take away from her book

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On this episode of Close Reads, Tim, Angelina and David discuss and revel in chapters five and six of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. 

Conversations touches on whether this book should actually be referred to a "children's book", why it's such a good book about friendship, the role nostalgia plays in it, and much more. 

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Welcome to episode 13 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education. 

In this episode, he is joined by a special guest and together they contemplate a question about whether calculus and other subjects like it are lost on homemakers. 

To submit a question for a future episode go here. https://www.circeinstitute.org/resources-web-features/ask-andrew

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In this episode of The Mason Jar, Tammy Glaser joins Cindy Rollins to discuss her Charlotte Mason school in South Carolina, the ways a CM education has helped her autistic daughter, her advice for CM schoosl and teachers, and much more. 

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