Troubleshooting at home

LOVED this quote today from a Charlotte Mason themed blog on troubleshooting CM-style.


"Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life."


This past week, our CM reading group discussed the above, which is Charlotte Mason's fifth principle of her philosophy of education. She says we are limited to these three. That's it. There's nothing else, because she believed everything else was a form of manipulation, or it was preying upon the child's sinful tendencies. If we bribe them, we appeal to their greed; if we hold up prizes, we appeal to their avarice; if we threaten them, we appeal to their fears, and so on.