Re: Charlotte Mason Principles Discssion Thread
Personhood.
The person you are, in spite of circumstances?
The outgoing, the person who always sees the glass as half full.
Tallents and strengths.
Improvement of weaknesses is always possible, but strengths will always be strengths.
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"Reflections like these lead one to spare the rod ... purely because it is not easy to find a punishment that does not defeat it's own ends." -Charlotte Mason Parents and Children pg. 171
"If punishment were necessarily reformative, and able to cure us all of those 'sins we have a mind to,' why, the world would be a very good world;" -Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children pg. 172
W&C 8/4/06; G 15yo , M 11yo , S 8/29/13 , V 8yo , Baby 2yo
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