A Case for the Early Years with Leah Martin from My Little Robins

Are you in the Early Years Stage? If you have a 0-6-year-old, you are living in what Charlotte Mason referred to as "the early years." In her first volume, Home Education, Miss Mason urged mothers to "secure for them a quiet growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it spent for the most part out in the fresh air." If you think that's a challenge in our hectic postmodern world, you're right. But it's not impossible. Today I chat with Leah Martin from "My Little Robins" on how to make Charlotte Mason's ideas a reality. We also discuss why the early years should be preserved as a "quiet growing time" instead of relinquishing them to academics as the culture continually calls us to do and some consequences we're seeing as a society because of this unnatural shift. In this episode you'll hear: the story of a former public school teacher turned Ambleside teacher turned CM homeschool mama why academics in the early years is usually not developmentally appropriate why the Great Outdoors is the best classroom for the early years mental, emotional and physical benefits to holding off on academics how the segregation mindset of home and school is disrupting the early years Show Notes My Little Robins Blog Home Education by Charlotte M. Mason (affiliate link) Balanced and Barefoot by Angela J. Hanscom (affiliate link) Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (affiliate link) List of Attainments Maestro Classics The quote I fumbled through about children learning naturally at home (under Natural, Everyday Situations heading) A Thomas Locker picture book (affiliate link) What is Twaddle? Leah's Podcast: Thinking Love Leah's Facebook group