[mommychem]

I’m Charlotte Mason inspired and have used My Father’s World for my oldest and/or Ambleside for years 0 to 2 (DD2 listened in though she wasn’t formally required to narrate until this year). This year has been interesting in that I was given Abeka curriculum and tried to make it work, but put it aside and went back to learning through living books. I’d like to go back to Ambleside Online since dd2 is 7 and I want her to know the formidable lists of attainments by age six.

I’ve only read parts of Karen Andreola’s A Charlotte Mason Companion.

With respect to children already being persons, for me, I try to pay close attention to my children and the characteristics they exhibit from babyhood, not assuming or requiring that any of them be exactly like the other or like any other person. My first child has always been very different than me so I learned early on to allow her to be the person that she already is. I believe that they are influenced by their surroundings, but I think their response will be unique and influenced by who they already are. I hope that makes sense. “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you....” Jeremiah 1:5