Opportunities at Home
June 13, 2019
Last time, we heard from Essex Cholmondeley about opportunities, the opportunities parents have at home “to bring children up to be or to do” to be the kind of persons who have the power to live the life God has given them in exactly the way God intends, complete in mind, heart and soul with “the needs of something to love, something to do and something to think about.” It’s a lofty work indeed, to bring children up in these varied relationships. In truth, each parent and each teacher are a part of this work already, consciously or unconsciously. more
Parenting in a Digital Age Part 3 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr
June 6, 2019
Modern technologies propagate a value system. Winners win and losers lose but is that a true statement?
Is the purpose of life. To make it to the one percent? Or would I or which would I rather have my child be? A neurotic performance-oriented performance driven member of the one percent. Or totally average in lifestyle but knows how to love his spouse and care for his children enjoys that which is good true and beautiful has a rich relationship with ideas and books as many friends and is a blessing to everyone in the neighborhood a quote winner one rich in the relation of life to set different value systems. Which do you want for your child?
Parenting in a Digital Age Part 2 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr
May 30, 2019
What's the most formative influence in that child's life. Is it parents? Is it teachers? I promise you it's the screens that's what's shaping the child's character. Every child is born knowing there are things worth having and things worth avoiding but they're absolutely clueless what those are. Their affections are set first by the parents, then by the tribe. What do you desire? Child What do you want? Those desire we're not random events. They were cultivated. And they were cultivated by somebody or some thing.And. It's a function of quality time. Whoever has the most quality time with the child gets to do the most shaping of the affections.
Parenting in a Digital Age Part 1 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr
May 23, 2019
Silicon Valley tech executives and engineers enroll their kids in no tech Waldorf schools. Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page went to no tech Montessori schools as did Amazon creator Jeff Bezos and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales many parents intuitively understand that the ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids.
What is Education?
May 9, 2019
Cholmondeley, Essex, What is Education? An address given to a meeting of the Women’s Institute. 1925.
Children as Persons and Parents in Authority
March 14, 2019
"The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine, to him that has a sense for the godlike.
The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 3.4
March 7, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 3.3
February 28, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 3.2
February 21, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 3.1
February 14, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 2.2
February 7, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 2.1
January 31, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 1.3
January 24, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 1.2
January 17, 2019
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The Pursuit of Maturity with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Part 1.1
January 10, 2019
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The Art of Narration - Defined and Demonstrated with Maryellen St. Cyr
June 7, 2018
Charlotte Mason called narration the ground-plan of education. Maryellen St.Cyr instructs in this art of telling back with students of varied ages. See how students exhibit the power of narration as they have read/listened to a single reading with attention and concentration and "have in every case reproduced what they have read in narration"
This is a series of Videos demonstrating Narration the videos demonstrations are located here.
