Episode 279: Trusting the Method with Sandra Johnson
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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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 Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need.
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| 0:00.0 | Join a delectable education in 2024 as we travel to Indiana, Michigan, and Florida for |
| 0:07.6 | Awaken Living Books Educational Conferences. |
| 0:11.5 | Gather with us and a few friends as we refresh hearts, renew minds, and encourage. differences. workshops, inspiring relatable speakers, fellowship with like-minded parents, a nourishing Whole Foods |
| 0:27.8 | menu, Charlotte Mason inspired vendors, as well as a used book sale to benefit the local living books library. |
| 0:35.0 | An opportunity to tour that living books library will be available as well as a tour of a Charlotte Mason hybrid school at the Indiana location. |
| 0:44.8 | Visit Living Books Conference.com for more information on dates, tickets, and locations. |
| 0:52.0 | That's Living Books locations.com. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the |
| 0:58.2 | Charlotte Mason method. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Kottrell. Today we're also |
| 1:04.8 | joined by Sandy Johnson. Welcome Sandy. Thank you. It's great to be with you. |
| 1:10.5 | The theme of season nine of our podcast has been trust the method. It's 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? |
| 1:24.4 | So today's episode is part of our season-long series where we sit down with |
| 1:28.6 | experienced Charlotte Mason teachers and parents and hear their thoughts on what it has meant for them to trust the method. |
| 1:35.0 | And as she said, we have our friend Sandy Johnson here with us today. |
| 1:42.0 | So Sandy, why don't you just start us off by telling us a little bit about your family and how you decided to follow Charlotte Mason into homeschooling. |
| 1:53.7 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:56.6 | Yes, well my husband and I have three kids. |
| 1:59.8 | They are, my daughter is 18, soon to be be 19 and I have two sons 16 and 11 and I actually was one of those kids that fell through the cracks of the public education system, my siblings also. |
| 2:15.0 | So I remember being in junior high and thinking, |
| 2:18.1 | I will never send my kids to a place like this. |
| 2:21.4 | I will never do this to them. So because of that reason I thought I'm going to |
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