Written by a homeschooling mother and qualified teacher, who has walked the talk and understands how to work with children at home, you will learn about the practicalities of homeschooling. Things like creating timetables, lesson plans, organisation, and scheduling are easy once you know-how. You’ll even learn how to run a sane and tidy household while homeschooling, how to choose the best curriculum for your children, how to make extracurricular activities work with your family, and so much more.

By working through this book you will be homeschooling successfully in no time, while also saving time and money as you learn how to avoid all the overwhelming information, unsuitable homeschooling curriculum, and events.

What people are saying about Successful Homeschooling Made Easy:

• I now feel confident in my own ability to homeschool my children and to not get too stressed about doing it all right. – M S
• I really liked the way you gently walked me through the process of establishing what suits our family and how we want to work. Planning and homeschooling are so enjoyable now. Thank you. – B S
• I can’t explain how invaluable this has been and still is. In the everyday bustle of life it is easy to forget why you set out on this particular journey so now, every time I look at our Homeschool Goals, which is on our fridge, I am reminded why we are homeschooling and exactly what we want to achieve. It provides that hope and inspiration and excitement that we felt when we first decided to homeschool. It keeps us going when things get tough. I also love the variety of templates for lesson planning and scheduling. – A G
• This has been a wonderful experience for me. I loved reading the stories and getting organization ideas. You have really got me thinking about my values and helped me to work out why I want to homeschool. Thanks. – H E

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In her memoir, Missy Andrews reflects on over 25 years in the trenches of homeschooling. She recalls her idealistic pursuit of an education for her children, the devastation she experienced upon confusing success with identity, and the transformative grace she found in the midst of failure. Weaving a literary education into the fabric of her experience, she relies on the Great Books as a great cloud of witnesses, demonstrating the universal nature of a homeschooling mother’s suffering and the scandalous Gospel available to us all.

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“THE FOUNDATIONAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL EDUCATION AND MODERN EDUCATION IS THAT THE ANCIENTS BELIEVED THAT EDUCATION WAS FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT SHAPING LOVES.”

The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education introduces readers to a paradigm for understanding a classical education that transcends the familiar 3-stage pattern of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Instead, this book describes the liberal arts as a central part of a larger and more robust paradigm of classical education that should consist of piety, gymnastic, music, liberal arts, philosophy, and theology. The Liberal Arts Tradition also recovers the means by which classical educators developed more than just intellectual virtue (by means of the 7 liberal arts) but holistically cultivated the mind, body, will, and affections. This is a must-read for educators who want to take a second big step toward recovering the tradition of classical education.

What’s NEW in the Revised Edition

Now in hardcover, the revised edition of The Liberal Arts Tradition has been expanded and updated throughout to reflect the most recent understandings and philosophies of classical education. It also includes 40 percent new content, featuring:

• Expanded Trivium pieces
• Expanded “Moral Philosophy” piece, with more nuanced discussions of virtue and the role of the Church
• Completely new “Calling, Culture, and Curriculum” section addressing (1) biblical foundations for classical Christian education, (2) the relationship of classical Christian education to the Church and other cultures, and (3) the relationship between the liberal, common, and fine arts
• Revised “Natural Philosophy” piece
• Updated paradigm of the liberal arts tradition
• Glossary
• New appendices, including one on reading and one entitled “A New Natural Philosophy”

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Our popular workshop on the power of good habits in your home school. In just an hour you will be up and running with the basic principles and practical tips of instilling good habits. Couple this workshop with the Laying Down the Rails complete reference book to get the whole picture.

• Based on our Best-selling Book—Receive a quick overview of the basic concepts from Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook.
• Quick—In an hour Sonya will walk you through the basic principles of habit training, lots of real-life examples, an overview of Charlotte Mason habits, and practical how-tos for the top three habits.
• Encouraging—Find out how cultivating good habits now will benefit both you and your child.
• Practical—Learn why nagging doesn’t work and how to use effective techniques to motivate your child to develop a good habit.
• Motivating—Discover The Top Three habits (attention, obedience, truthfulness) and walk away with the keys to instilling them.

Additional Products:

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD

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Our popular workshop on the power of good habits in your home school. In just an hour you will be up and running with the basic principles and practical tips of instilling good habits. Couple this workshop with the Laying Down the Rails complete reference book to get the whole picture.

• Based on our Best-selling Book—Receive a quick overview of the basic concepts from Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook.
• Quick—In an hour Sonya will walk you through the basic principles of habit training, lots of real-life examples, an overview of Charlotte Mason habits, and practical how-tos for the top three habits.
• Encouraging—Find out how cultivating good habits now will benefit both you and your child.
• Practical—Learn why nagging doesn’t work and how to use effective techniques to motivate your child to develop a good habit.
• Motivating—Discover The Top Three habits (attention, obedience, truthfulness) and walk away with the keys to instilling them.

Books in Series

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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This companion to the award-winning book, Laying Down the Rails, expands on the principles of good habits with a practical how-to guide and action plan to use with your children. It is filled with more than 400 pages of classic stories and Bible passages, beautiful poems, life activities, inspiring quotations—living ideas that will nestle into your children’s minds and motivate them toward the habits of good character.

With Laying Down the Rails for Children, you will

• Feed minds—Enjoy classic stories, poems, Bible passages, and powerful quotations that feed the mind with wonderful ideas centered around each habit. All of the 60+ habits explained in Laying Down the Rails are covered.
• Inspire hearts—Discuss and practice practical ways to apply those motivating ideas in everyday life. The gentle lessons include ideas for all ages.
• Encourage action—Outline a personal plan for your family in the Parent Prep section of each habit. Cross references, guiding thoughts, and helpful reminders are provided along with lots of room to jot notes.
• Build habits—Give focus and motivation to the whole family as you work on your selected habit. Laying Down the Rails for Children offers enough companion material for many years of habit training!

Start laying down the rails of good habits in your home today and see what a difference it can make!

Note: The printed version of Laying Down the Rails for Children comes as a two-book set for easier handling.

Additional Products:

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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Here, compiled into one volume, are all the habits Charlotte mentioned in her writings with her thoughts and suggestions for cultivating each one. This work also includes Charlotte’s help for breaking bad habits, hundreds of inspiring quotes, and lots of practical tips.

• Complete—Details more than fifty CM habits with their corresponding passages from Charlotte’s writings, as well as her thoughts on the importance of habits.
• Practical—Presents Charlotte’s writings in bite-size chunks with summary statements and quick personal review questions. Modern-day examples offer additional insight into applying CM principles today.
• Organized—Arranges all the habits into five main categories: decency and propriety habits, mental habits, moral habits, physical habits, and religious habits.
• Handy—Provides a Habits Checklist to help you track your child’s and your own progress in developing good habits.
• Encouraging—Motivates and inspires you with wonderful quotes from Charlotte Mason and many other great men and women of history, like Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Edison, and more!
• Easy to Use—Acts as a quick and easy reference book with an Index that lists all the habits and the pages on which they are mentioned.

Books in Series:

Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“We all stir out minds into action the better if there is an implied ‘must’ in the background; for children in class the ‘must’ acts through the certainty that they will be required to narrate or write from what they have read with no opportunity of ‘looking up,’ or other devices of the idle.” —Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character

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Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Education in morals the young people must get at home, or not at all. The chief of their duties is the duty they owe to their parents: from this stem, all other duties, to kindred, commonwealth, and neighbours, branch out.” —Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

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Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Humility is perhaps one with Simplicity, and does not allow us to think of ourselves at all, ill or well. That is why a child is humble. The thought of self does not come to him at all; when it does, he falls from his child estate and becomes what we call self-conscious.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

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Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships . . . try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

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