#1 Thing Moms Need to Do for 2024 | The Home Librarian Series | Classical Charlotte Mason Education 

Husband just got me a kindle so I can redeem the time I'm spending nursing our newborn. Much better than endlessly scrolling Instagram to keep myself awake at 3am!

I have to say that I call my home life " The Ministry of Interruptions" and this has strangely become more of a reality with grown children and grandchildren. I say it with genuine love of those who interrupt and my 'domestic monastery' and no sarcasm.

Excellent video. So true, I spend so much time curating books for my children but fail to do this for myself. I’m def in a book glutton phase.

This was the encouragement I needed to plan out my reading in a realistic way this year (have a 2 year old and a 1 year old). I really appreciate the content you put out, it has been deeply encouraging to me. You have spurred me on in my faith and desire to home educate. Thank you.

GIIIIRRLLL!!! My husband and I read Brave New World together over the summer, per your recommendation. We can’t even see a commercial without that yucky materialism pit in our stomachs! Especially those commercials for the cars that drive themselves! Can we not even be bothered to drive for ourselves anymore?!? So disturbing, but in an eye opening and necessary way. Anyway, I read it to be able to read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but currently still just sitting with the ideas in Brave New World 🤪

This is why i like Well-Read Mom - I don't have to think about planning what to read, and they introduce me to plenty of new stuff that I would otherwise never read but have gotten plenty of benefit from. And because I pay for it, I'm more motivated to actually read the books - I have to show up prepared for meetings and get my money's worth!

I too have always been a jack-of-all-trades, and thought it was actually a weakness of mine until a few years ago. Now I lean into it and even encourage it in my children! Also - I’m swooning over your green cabinets and I don’t know if it was intentional, but I appreciated the slower pace of this video. My brain can only keep up with so many words per minute!

First! And also, this was pure gold.

I don't know why I watch these types of videos. I'm not even a mom. (Not by my choice.) I'm 50+. I love reading. But I can't get over my relentless guilt about enjoying it. I did not grow up in a reading family. (I don't blame my parents. They're good people.) I'm not even sure if they ever directly said anything about it. But somehow or other, I always got the message that reading was a waste of time - time that could be used for something useful. Something productive. So even now, even after I've done my work, cleaned my apartment, spent time with family, done everything "productive" that I can think to do... I still feel guilty when I sit down to read. Even when it's my Bible. It doesn't help that I have no one in my real life who's much of a reader either. I'm not expecting anyone to solve this. It's my own problem. I just wish I could resolve it. I have SO MANY books piled around my house that I want to get to! But every time I start, so does the guilt. You would think it's getting better as I get older and hopefully wiser? No. If anything, it's getting worse. And now it's mingled with fear/anxiety, because I realize my years on this earth are getting closer to the end.

Just found your channel, which led me to your podcast... Just tell me it's not too late to start with my 8.5 and 5.5 year olds... 😬

Love it! I can tell you went to school by the way you hold your pen... shocked Autumn! 😮 Love you ❤

Everytime I start I stop. I subscribed to common house but got overwhelmed. I am pretty illiterate. I grew up in public school and really just memorized stuff to pass a test and than boom, gone. I’m pretty lost on where to start with reading. Chronicles of Narnia? 🤣 I really want to fulfill myself. I want the good life, and most importantly want it for my children. ❤️

What would be your book suggestion(s) for those lower bandwidth moms? I try to avoid just copying others’ lists, but I also just don’t know where to start sometimes!

Hey Autumn! I’m new here, just fell through the “Classical Wardrobe” about a week or two ago and was wondering where you’d suggest I start so I can learn more about this world. 😍🕯️📚❤

I appreciate all your videos! How do you balance reading new books with old ones you want to reread? Also, what do you do if you can't get into the book?

How do you physically organize the books you plan to read over the next year? For the first time in my life instead of just making lists that never realize I have separated piles of books I would like to read over the next year. But all the other books are still around and calling for my attention. I have definitely been a book glutton my whole life and the most difficult thing about planning a year of reading is not choosing what to read, it`s deciding that I`m probably not going to read this book this year, hundreds of times. I`m not going to give away most of my books just because I don`t plan on reading them this year, but their visual presence in a small apartment does distract me from sticking to the choices I`ve made.

What reading would you recommend during postpartum recovery?

So good, thank you. The link for your book list on Amazon isn’t working.

I spy Glerups slippers from the start of the video! Do you ever take them off, because I have the same ones and I *never take them off*

Hello! What's the name of the painting that appears as the thumbnail? Thank you!!