Free E-Book - Smooth and Easy days

Simply Charlotte Mason. Com is offering a free download of their new book ' Smooth and easy days' a handbook in helping your child lose the bad habits and replace them with good ones insha Allaah.

“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”

-Charlotte Mason Quote.

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The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children. — Charlotte Mason

Muslim Yahoo group for Charlotte Mason

While doing a search on Yahoo groups I just came across a group called muslimcm I've just signed up to join. This is the description of the group :

Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem
This group is for Muslim families that want to homeschool using a Charlotte Mason approach. Whether you use a packaged curriculum (such as Ambleside Online) or make your own, this is the place for discussing Charlotte Mason in an islamic manner. Non-muslims are welcome to join, but there will be no room for off-topic religious or philosophical debate. Allah subaha wa t'ala is sufficient and in him we trust.

Charlotte Mason on Amazon.com

Here are some books on the Charlotte Mason method, listed on Amazon.com, again I would like to note that any purchases made through these links will insha Allaah generate a small income for me and my family, which will help fund our homeschooling. Any support is much appreciated.

Charlotte Mason Books

Here is a list of Charlotte Mason books from amazon UK, I would like to note that any purchases made through these links will insha Allaah generate a small income for me and my family, which will help fund our homeschooling. Any support is much appreciated.

Quotes from Charlotte Mason 4th Volume

Nobody knows how much is possible to any one person. Many persons go through life without recognizing this. They have no notion of how much they can do and feel, know and be; and so their lives turn out poor, narrow, and disappointing. (p. 9)

Never think of your meals till they come, and, while you are eating, talk and think of something more amusing than your food. (p. 13)

Thirst is a simple fellow; the beverage he likes best is pure cold water. (p. 15)

We should always have something worthwhile to think about, that we may not let our minds dwell upon unworthy matters. (p. 21)

Never knowingly read anything or listen to anything which could suggest unclean imaginations. (p. 52)

Never let us reflect upon small annoyances, and we shall be able to bear great ones sweetly. Never let us think over our small pains, and our great pains will be easily endurable. (p. 90)

The other and surer way of guarding ourselves from this evil possession of self-pity is to think about others. Be quick to discern their pains and sufferings, and be ready to bring help. (p. 90)

To be benevolent is to have good will towards all men. (p. 91)

Kindness is to make everyday life pleasant and comfortable to others. (p. 99)

The essence of acts of Kindness is that they should be unremembered. (p. 101)

A grateful heart rejoices not only in the gift but in the giver. (p. 109)

Formal thanks are proper enough on occasions, but there are other ways of expressing gratitude. A glance, a smile, a word of appreciation and recognition straight from the heart, will fill the person who has done us a kindness with pleasure. (p. 109)

If we would but believe it, we have all courage to face any calamity, any enemy, an death.
(p. 122)

It is a bad thing to think that time is our own to do what we like with. We all have duties, and a certain share of our time must be given to those duties. This power of making oneself work is a fine thing. Every effort makes the next easier. (p. 173)

The child and God

"Children should be taught their duty toward God. It is their duty. That which they owe, to love Him "with all their heart, with all their mind, with all their strength" these things are seldom taught as they should be."

-Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason Quotes

Kindergarten

"In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mothers first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air."

Language arts

“But one who tries this method on himself will find that in the act of narrating every power of his mind comes into play."

Nature Study

"We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things."

"Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life."

Geography

"The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures."

Time for mother.

"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them be."

-Charlotte Mason quote.