Episode 267: Trusting the Method with Celeste Cruz
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, Celeste Cruz, mom of eleven children, from infant to seniors in High School, joins us to reflect on her Charlotte Mason Journey.
"Not only confidence in themselves, but confidence in their children, is an element of the masterly inactivity, which I venture to propose to parents as a 'blue teapot' for them 'to live up to.' Believe in the relation of parent and child, and trust the children to believe in it and fulfil it on their part. They will do so if they are not worried." (3/30)
"People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think..." (6/31)
Awaken: Living Books Conference
Celeste's blog: Joyous Lessons
ADE's Patreon Community
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Join a delectable education in 2024 as we travel to Indiana, Michigan, and Florida for |
| 0:08.0 | Awaken Living Books Educational Conferences. |
| 0:11.9 | Gather with us and a few friends as we refresh hearts, renew minds. conferences. interactive workshops, inspiring relatable speakers, fellowship with like-minded parents, a nourishing |
| 0:27.6 | Whole Foods menu, Charlotte Mason inspired vendors, as well as a used book sale to benefit the local living books |
| 0:34.9 | library. An opportunity to tour that living books library will be |
| 0:39.2 | available as well as a tour of a Charlotte Mason hybrid school at the Indiana location. |
| 0:45.2 | Visit living books conference.com for more information on dates, tickets and locations. |
| 0:52.3 | That's living books Conference.com. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome back to a delectable education, |
| 0:58.0 | the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here today with Liz Kittrell and |
| 1:05.0 | Nicole Williams. And today we're also joined by Celeste Cruz. Welcome |
| 1:08.6 | Celeste. Thanks. The theme of season nine of the podcast is trust the method and this is a refrain that is commonly heard in Charlotte Mason circles, but one that can leave you wondering what does that actually look like in real life. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, today's episode is part of our season long series |
| 1:26.0 | where we sit down with experienced Charlotte Mason teachers and parents |
| 1:30.0 | and hear their thoughts on what it has meant for them to trust the method. |
| 1:35.0 | So let's begin, Celeste, would you tell us a little bit about your family |
| 1:40.0 | and how you decided to start using the Charlotte Mason method or when that happened? |
| 1:45.0 | I know it's been a long time for you. |
| 1:47.2 | Yeah, it's starting to feel that way. |
| 1:51.2 | So, well, my husband and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 1:55.0 | Both of us were born and raised here and now we are here with our 11 children. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -483 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nicole Williams, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nicole Williams and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.