Modern Miss Mason, Leah Boden
Modern Miss Mason, Leah Boden
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Modern Miss Mason

Author: Leah Boden

Narrator: Leah Boden

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/10/2023


Synopsis

This book is your invitation to an adventure, a call to turn a corner on your already incredible journey of parenting and let Leah Boden show you the fresh face of an age-old perspective on motherhood, childhood, and education. As a young mother and new home educator, Leah was overwhelmed by the breadth of available resources. How to know which to choose? What would best guide and inspire her children? Whose voices should she trust? That’s when she discovered the timeless work and words of Charlotte Mason. A ground-breaking and revolutionary voice in education, Charlotte breathed life and beauty back into childhood in a stiff, archaic age, opening the eyes of parent-teachers and the hearts of students?and changing the future of home education. Let Leah Boden show you how Charlotte Mason’s ideas can transform your homeschooling experience. She will help you do the following: find methods that you and your children can explore by learning through books, by being outdoors, and through living experiences; recognize that each child is unique and discover how to plan their learning journey accordingly; and learn how to practically incorporate Charlotte’s timeless philosophy into your home every day. In an overwhelming digital age that can distract and divert our attention from the past, turn back to Charlotte Mason’s educational ideas that started it all?and discover what they can do for you and your family.

About Leah Boden

Leah Boden is a long-time home educator with over two decades of experience in church leadership. Currently, her life and education focuses on the practice and pedagogy of early 20th century educator Charlotte Mason. She leads the Charlotte Mason Conversations UK online community and founded Modern Miss Mason, an international initiative to help parents and children find their freedom within Mason’s philosophy. She lives with her husband and four children in the West Midlands, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

One of the ways in which Charlotte Mason's Philosophy of Education is used today is by mixing her ideas with contemporary ideas. Leah Boden is in this camp, and this book represents that. If that is what you are looking for, then this book is for you. If like me, you wish to see an accurate portraya......more

Goodreads review by Bridget

So, if you were a new homeschooler or someone thinking about this lifestyle, I can see how this book would be helpful. As a veteran homeschooler, though, I feel like this information has been shared over and over again in books recently published (basically by a lot of those in the Wild + Free homes......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

If you are new to homeschooling then you might really enjoy this book. I am a big fan of Charlotte Mason but I found this book incredibly repetitive. It also rubbed me the wrong way how the author tried to take credit for various common homeschool things which were not the authors original idea. If......more

Goodreads review by Haley

A good primer on Charlotte Mason's (increasingly popular & widely appreciated) philosophies behind childhood, education, and motherhood. Still worthwhile if you've gleaned a general idea of this philosophy from the innumerable other Charlotte Mason resources. The accessible & generous way each secti......more