Comments on: Charlotte Mason Was a Wise Woman

By: crystal

crystal — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:45:20 +0000

Oh My! is it wrong that I actually cried I was laughing so hard? I laugh because I’ve been there! who am I joking,, I’m STILL there!

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:43:22 +0000

Dh and I were in stitches over this blog. Sooo funny. Yesterday we were walking across the bridge and I looked up and saw a seagull and thought of your girls looking for the duck and I was off laughing again.

By: DavidofOz

DavidofOz — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:23:48 +0000

This calling for one of the children and just getting a grunt or similar answer annoyed us too. We started the habit that they must answer “Yes Dad (or Mum)” and then come to see us. If we call and they answer “What?” or something similar we stay quiet. Soon we hear “Oh. Yes Dad” and they come to see us. Persevere - it’s worth it!

By: Mary Beth Patnaude

Mary Beth Patnaude — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:30:56 +0000

Lissa:

Maybe you would be willing to do another post at some point on the steps you took to form this good habit. I find the habit of yelling from another room quite difficult to deal with, especially since having an infant and a toddler make it difficult to always go to the child, bend down, and look them in the eye.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:42:36 +0000

This is so funny and ironic as this “habit” of coming when called is SOO what we need to work on here Thanks for the reminder!!

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:31:12 +0000

Rofl! Great writing as usual… and a cool story too.

CM says it takes six weeks to establish a habit but it only takes one lapse to undo it completely. That explains why I am so slow to keep those habits I begin in earnest! LOL

Still, like you, I love that she encourages mothers to see a time of training as necessary to proper “education” and habit development. She is a compassionate yet centered woman, that Ms. Mason.

Julie

By: The LLama Butchers

The LLama Butchers — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:43:23 +0000

DUCK!

Ohhh, is it a Mallard? Someday, there will be a tee-vee show about the Bonny Glenn, and you’ll be dining out on how you used to read the blog before it became big and famous….