Thank you for a more loose definition of living book and twaddle!!! I am not a pure Charlotte Masonite so it is hard finding helpful information regarding the method! I want my child(ren) to love to read and if that means she want's to read "twaddle" then SO BE IT!!! I am a scifi/fantasy buff and don't find I am hindered at all by my book selection. Creativity is important. Thank you, thank you for representing!
I have gleaned from Charlotte Mason over the years but never knew about living books vs twaddle. Love it! One of my favorite untwaddle books of all time is Amos & Boris by William Seig
I’m still watching in 2020!!!👏👏👏🌹 My favorite living book when I was a child was a book about Paleontology. It was so fascinating but I lost that one copy. I ended up studying something completely different and I’m not passionated about that topic that much anymore but thinking about the book bring beautiful memories back about what a curious child I was🌸
Im interested in the living book method, however I have some questions...! If you start in the first grade with ancient history, Im assuming a 6 year old can only learn a certain amount about it. Would you then revisit ancient history when the kids were older? It seems as though they would learn more about the topics they cover in 6th grade than the ones they cover in 1st grade..? Its quite a linear method if you see what i mean..? I'm not being negative at all, I am just curious as to how it works....! I think you would be a good person to answer this question as your videos are very informative :)
+Nicola Cusack Yes - you would definitely want to revisit those time periods at a later age. I have probably done ancients 3 or 4 times over the years with my kids and so on. Right now I'm doing a History of Science with my 8th grade twins and that covers a sort of crash course in world history - so we're sort of reviewing everything they've learned over the years. I'm surprised at the things that they did actually remember from when they were much younger though. Some people do the 4 year rotation - where they cover Ancients, Middle Ages - Renaissance, Early Modern and Modern for 4 years in elementary, 4 years in middle school and 4 years in high school. I don't quite go that route - because I want to cover both American History and World Geography in depth in the middle grades. In the early years it's about exposure - just showing them that there is a big wide world out there with tons of interesting things in it.
