Homeschool High School the Charlotte Mason Way

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  • čas přidán 16. 02. 2022
  • In this video we will explore realistic ways to incorporate the basic principles of the Charlotte Mason method into the teen years.
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Komentáře • 93

  • @As-fk1rb
    @As-fk1rb Před rokem +6

    My son has a good grasp on what is going on in the world he is 15 , and has decided he does not want to go to collage. He is really good at self teaching so I have faith he will be successful in what ever he chooses to do . All I care about is he's healthy happy ,and has solid life skills and also follows the good lord!

  • @makerofahome
    @makerofahome Před 2 lety +9

    I am always blessed by your videos! Whenever I get distracted with all the things I “should be doing” for school with my elementary age son, I come back to your blog & videos to remind me of the things that are important. Helps me also not be wasteful by spending money on unnecessary things!

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +3

      I think we've all been trained to think that we can solve our problems by spending money, something I have fallen for too many times to mention :P

    • @creeksidehomeacademy4511
      @creeksidehomeacademy4511 Před 2 lety +1

      @@MomDelights That is so true, I'm dealing with that now, the packaged curriculum looks so pretty and takes the work out of it yet it also removes the personal touch, I mean some of them actually have direct dialog that you read to them telling you how to speak to your kids, that runs me insane and I don't wanna go that route again!

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      That's "material-only," LOL?

  • @kimsims952
    @kimsims952 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for this video, it was so informative! It seems most CZcams homeschooling high school videos all focus on college and not on how to become an adult.

  • @JenSchell27
    @JenSchell27 Před 4 měsíci

    Always appreciate your perspective and encouragement. Thankful always you carve out this time from your busy household to encourage us along the way.

  • @ThisEnchantedHour
    @ThisEnchantedHour Před 2 lety +5

    Sherry, I always appreciate how much godly wisdom you share for homeschooling and not just what’s trendy. Everything you said in this video is so so important for our children. Even though mine are years away from high school, I always find what you share so helpful. -Allison (formerly Little Paper Crown 😉)

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      So good to hear from you, Allison :). I love your new name!

  • @avalle05
    @avalle05 Před rokem +1

    Hello! I have two littles, 8 and 10 year old and am thinking of switching my homeschool from traditional to Charlotte mason. This was my first video of you and I Ioved it. I've been watching so many simply Charlotte mason videos and I can't wait to watch so many of yours. Thank you for your time, wonderful encouragement and wisdom.

  • @jenniferschell1474
    @jenniferschell1474 Před 2 lety +6

    Oh I’m so thankful you posted this. I was going back and forth on messaging you and asking about high school. My oldest is 13 and a boy. I would love to see your recommendations. This was very encouraging.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +11

      There is so much out there for young men. I hope to have that video up soon.

  • @allyh193
    @allyh193 Před 2 lety +1

    Ok I was laughing at the filth bucket comment 🤣 I grew up with my brother and dad and I can tell you cleanliness was not exemplified well. It is so hard to have to learn all of those skills on my own. I don’t want my kids to not know how to do their laundry, clean up after dinner, create a comforting space for themselves and others, etc.
    Thank you so much for this!!

  • @kathrynfriedlund3280
    @kathrynfriedlund3280 Před rokem +1

    You are such a breath of fresh air! This was such a huge encouragement. Thank you for validating the things I felt deep in my heart, and giving me fresh perspective to focus on the important things and not get bogged down with worry about having perfect transcripts. THANK YOU so much!!!! I am hoping you will share (or have shared) more regarding high school. You are a wealth of information and wisdom! Thank you a million :)

  • @fernforest5295
    @fernforest5295 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you. 😊 My oldest will be beginning High School later this year, so I am grateful for you sharing on how to do it. I so much agree with your assessment and perspective about public school, higher education and preparing our kids for real life.❣️

    • @ashleypelton
      @ashleypelton Před rokem

      How did your year go? I'm homeschool high school for the first time starting in July as we school year round. I feel the pressure from peers, socially, and ect to go back to what public school does even though that's exactly why we chose to homeschool in the first place. To break away from a system that didn't work for me or my husband. I feel this push inside to just read great books for his high school years and talk about them. He still isn't should what he wants to do in life beside work and have a family. But I'm just concerned about all the writing essays incase he does want or need to go to college at some point. I really could care less about the science lab stuff. Oh btw we're in Texas so technically we chose our own graduation requirements, but if your college bound then most go by what a college wants them to have. That route just isn't bringing much peace or joy to even think about much less put my son through. Thanks for you help!

  • @learningwithboys7431
    @learningwithboys7431 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for these truths - I like the thought of giving them truths but encouraging them with biographies that ingrain those truths. My second is graduating this year.
    Yes video for teen boys books and on infinity. Thanks!!

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks for the input--it gives me direction and encouragement :)

  • @ViolinMom
    @ViolinMom Před 2 lety +1

    Love listening to your video! We are also in Massachusetts here. I have 6 children and my oldest will be high school age this year. We are switching from CC to Charlotte Mason, so I stumbled across your video. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      Charlotte Mason should be much less stressful for you, especially with six children to teach :) I hope you find something useful here!

  • @laurenr1689
    @laurenr1689 Před 2 lety +1

    Your videos are always so timely :) Thanks be to God

  • @MoniqueAduSustainableLiving

    Mrs. Sherry, Your so very wise. Thank you so much for your words, and heart to share these very important Biblical and life principles. There are not many who do. May God bless you.

  • @ambererazo6218
    @ambererazo6218 Před 2 lety +1

    I would love to see a video of how you use the affinity! Thank you for all your time and efforts I find them so encouraging.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      I'm still in the learning stages, but I like what I am seeing. It's so much like InDesign. I hope it turns out to be as good as I think it is.

  • @jacobjohannes7123
    @jacobjohannes7123 Před 2 lety +1

    I love the Daily Connoisseur channel. I just read one of her books too

  • @meganbladine2175
    @meganbladine2175 Před 2 lety

    I always get excited when you post a new video. Thanks for blessing us this way.

  • @liztefft5312
    @liztefft5312 Před 11 měsíci

    This is good encouragement. Thank you!

  • @amyr7784
    @amyr7784 Před 2 lety +4

    I have younger kids but I'm soaking up your videos for the future. Thank you so much! Please show us more books! :) I'm creating a family library and have been using your suggestions already.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      I'll see what I can do about that!

    • @LampWaters
      @LampWaters Před 2 lety +2

      I have kids of all ages and currently love love pathway readers. We do lots of daily reading from pathway readers and copywork from mcguffeys or pathway. Overall we use Robinson Curriculum and approach writing and language arts as suggested on this channel. I supplement with writing skills programs when they ate ready to start writing paragraphs and essays and do an overall of different writing styles. I've built a collection of writing and English resources as needed. I love the gentle approach to 3Rs

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      @@LampWaters the Pathway readers are very sweet for early readers, but I have found the upper readers not to be as quality as the McG's

  • @jcav7
    @jcav7 Před 2 lety

    This is such a timely video. I’ve been preparing for high school for a few months. My oldest is going into ninth grade next year, and it’s an exciting time!

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      It certainly is! Young people can be so much fun :)

  • @crazychicken4063
    @crazychicken4063 Před 2 lety +1

    What is the name of that book, the one that told how to carve meats?

  • @jazzgreen749
    @jazzgreen749 Před 2 lety

    You nailed this. Much respect.

  • @StephanieMT
    @StephanieMT Před 7 měsíci

    some colleges offer free courses that dont give your college credit but i bet you can use them for highschoo credit. hillsdale and mit i think does. duke university has some free novel studies

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 7 měsíci

      So true! I heard about these years ago, and I believe a lot of people use them.

  • @samanthagraveswalters8443

    I think it’s awesome you mentioned the Robinson curriculum. What do you think about the Robinson curriculum? We will be doing it soon. (Also adding CM principles )

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      I think the basic ideas of the Robinson curriculum are genius and really work. I am not a purist, however, and have taken these ideas and tweaked them to fit our family and our ideals. Have you heard of Karen Rodriguez (Our House)? Her videos are terrific.

    • @samanthagraveswalters8443
      @samanthagraveswalters8443 Před 2 lety

      @@MomDelights yes I have. I am considering of getting and I always tweak things. I love the self teaching methodology. I am purchasing the book the 3 Rs to get started. We have always used Masterbooks curriculum but I am tired of feelings the pressures of finishing school books and feeling trapped in them. So that’s why I have been watching your videos and Karen’s. Y’all are both a breath of fresh air for as a mom with 5 kids. ❤️

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      @@samanthagraveswalters8443 Ruth Beechick is a great way to start :)

    • @berrypatch5583
      @berrypatch5583 Před 2 lety +2

      @@samanthagraveswalters8443 Robinson style is wonderful and Karen has great thoughts on implementation. Love her to! I find Robinson is a man, who lost his wife...thus had to have it work a certain way. In most of our circumstances we are women whom want to add the maternal gentle side to it, but keep the bones of the program while adding a little gravy. Reading aloud periods or poetry time once a month, or adding the fun things on rainy days for art. I love the vocabulary program as it allows you to see your children's abilities a little clearer.

    • @samanthagraveswalters8443
      @samanthagraveswalters8443 Před 2 lety

      @@berrypatch5583 can you explain how you use Robinson curriculum? I have 5 kids 4 boys 1 girl. Ages 10-2. My girl is in the middle and is 5. . I want to combine Sherrys version of CM with RC :)

  • @juliewright1895
    @juliewright1895 Před 2 lety

    What a great video!!! Thank you!!

  • @lighthousesunshine1206

    All of this.😊 I so agree 100%

  • @audreymcnair350
    @audreymcnair350 Před 2 lety

    This is is helpful. I'm really struggling to figure out next school year. I have 5 boys. My oldest will be in 10th and as I see the years with him at home dwindling away, I want to do things differently with him. I need to check out your blog because I wish I could have a face to face conversation with you 🤣 Also, looking forward to the books for boys video!!

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      It would be fun to sit down together! I am hoping to do the boys' books video next :)

  • @tess04231211
    @tess04231211 Před 2 lety

    Thank you !!!!!!!!
    Need all the help I can get 😂
    High school coming soon

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +1

      With God's help, it will be an amazing ride!

  • @crazychicken4063
    @crazychicken4063 Před 2 lety

    How do you do Bible in highschool?
    What can I use for Grammar in highschool?
    We're in highschool but not up to the typical highschool level, 15 year old daughter.

  • @jennifermcleod8176
    @jennifermcleod8176 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video. Suggestions for a 15 year old that has always struggled with learning?

    • @ASmith-jn7kf
      @ASmith-jn7kf Před 2 lety +1

      Can I ask, if you are the teacher and they have a problem learning, couldn't that be a learning style issue?? How does one know someone has a learning issue?? I think of learning like a language and we all speak different languages?? Being in school we learn one type of learning style, memory basically. So how does one determine it's the child and not the method??

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety +4

      We have a son that is on the autistic spectrum, although he is very affectionate and in many ways super intelligent. He wasn't yet reading at the age of 15, but soon after learned to read and then proceeded to work through most of our library at home. He has a host of different issues, such as not being able to handle the input of things like church, not having a great grasp of numbers and money, etc., yet he can talk for hours about things such as history and quantum theory. He is growing and maturing, just at a slower rate than what others would consider "normal." But we are patient and allowing him to go at his own pace. He may end up being the most successful out of all of our children. I think it is a point of faith where we deal with character issues, but then let God work in a person's life and give them the support and encouragement they need to be as successful as they can without allowing outside expectations to shape what that may look like.

    • @juliewright1895
      @juliewright1895 Před 2 lety +1

      I have a child (now 28 year old adult) who is on the spectrum. He learned differently than other kids. We started homeschooling him after 3rd grade. We kept trying different methods and curriculums until we found what worked for him. Living books and a hands on, delight directed approach was what worked mostly for him. We took things slow and repeated concepts often if needed. He didn't fluently read until he was about 11 years old even though he was in a very good private school until age 9 and we tried so many methods including a year of tutoring at a private learning center (didn't help at all). We did a lot of hands on learning and read alouds all through his schooling. We followed his interests. We worked on life skills. We taught him about his Lord and savior. We did the basics. We did do science and history but we didn't dive really deep into those subjects. We did what we felt would serve him well in life. His biggest struggle was reading when he was young then once he could read, he read VERY slowly. His other difficulty was memory. He could remember facts about classic trucks but could not memorize other facts. Math was very hard for him. We didn't require him to go past basic math and finances/economics. We focused on his strengths. He was very mechanically minded, loved classic trucks and could solve problems by thinking outside the box. Some of his high school classes were Auto Mechanics (1, 2, and 3), Employment and Computer Skills, Construction and Carpentry, Home and Life Management Skills (he had to learn to cook, do laundry, care for our home, etc.), and more along with all of the core subjects. He learned many of these skills with his dad, grandpa, friends and a couple of uncles. He was almost 20 when he graduated from high school (our homeschool). He has always wanted to be a truck driver and he's pursuing that dream right now. He lived on our property and started working at 19 (odd jobs long before that). He bought his own home by the time he was 22 or 23 years old. I felt like it got easier when we let go of trying to put him in that box that he just didn't fit into also, once we let go of our expectations and just focused on what he needed. It didn't matter that it didn't fit what all of the other high schoolers were doing. Once we were able to do this, he thrived. It was still a lot of work, but it was SOOO worth it. He's a solid man of God now who is pursuing his dream job AND getting married this summer to a precious girl who thinks the world of him (it's mutual). I hope this gives you hope. Sherry is awesome and she has such great ideas!!!! I'm sure you'll get MANY more ideas by following her!!

    • @jennifermcleod8176
      @jennifermcleod8176 Před 2 lety

      @@ASmith-jn7kf he has been homeschooled his entire life. We’ve tried multiple methods. He’s a great reader but no comprehension.

    • @jennifermcleod8176
      @jennifermcleod8176 Před 2 lety

      @@MomDelights thanks for your reply. I’ve considered having him tested, but just never have. He’s a great reader, but almost no comprehension. Forget the 8 parts of speech. Nouns and verbs are it for him. He’s got basic math skills. He is anywhere from about a fourth grade to sixth grade level in general. He doesn’t understand common sense type things and takes everything literal and I mean everything and that can be quite funny at times. He has great difficulty speaking to people even his siblings. So, I just don’t know. ❤️

  • @thegoodschool4601
    @thegoodschool4601 Před 2 lety

    I appreciate this so much. And it is so timely. My eldest is in 9th ans I’ve really been contemplating the RC lately. And really you hit the mail on the head, “how much do we need to be focusing on college prep?”
    I appreciate your educational style and have learned a lot over the last few week as I’ve been subscribed. Gentle grammar is a hit with my middles!

    • @berrypatch5583
      @berrypatch5583 Před 2 lety

      We do Robinson style, except we only do one hour of math not two, one hour of reading in the morning plus more for high school in the afternoon, and either an English lesson or a writing assignment. Our afternoon reading period is content areas and this has worked so well for us. I read aloud to littles and middles during the time. The rest of time is real life.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      So glad Gentle Grammar is a hit with your kids !

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      @@berrypatch5583 Love your schedule :)

    • @berrypatch5583
      @berrypatch5583 Před 2 lety

      @@MomDelights thank you! Simplifying has made life allow time for enjoying and working in the home more. I also read before bed to my littles for story hour. I love the RC flashcard system.

    • @crazychicken4063
      @crazychicken4063 Před 2 lety

      @@berrypatch5583 can you explain what you mean by 'content areas'? It's probably obvious but I'm not getting it. Lol my youngest is 9th-ish. She's interested in nursing. She's currently working at a 6th grade level Math. It's very difficult for her. I'm so torn what method over all to do. I want simple. I bought RC. We're not using it. I also like the Charlotte Mason method.

  • @sugarspice7768
    @sugarspice7768 Před 2 lety

    Our most succesful family member had a 6th grade education. He is now a millionaire with two successful business and real estate investments. My grandma raised 14 children successfully with a 4th grade education. My family ranges from little to college educated. The GEDs in our family make just as much as the graduates from state universities. I would say it took the college educated much longer to gain financial stability.

    • @MomDelights
      @MomDelights  Před 2 lety

      Absolutely! It takes a while to gain momentum for those without college education, but there is no debt (slavery) afterwards, either :)