Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

by Sarah Mackenzie

Morning Time Moms as the “daily collection of little grains

It means that we are doing one thing at a time, and we do that thing with all our heart.

Nancy Kelly, a Charlotte Mason Consultant and blogger at Sage Parnassus.

If education is in part an atmosphere, then creating an atmosphere of peace should be of utmost importance.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

A peaceful and happy mother is the real key to successful homeschooling.

To become peaceful and happy, you’ve got to figure out what’s true about you.

Just be yourself. Embrace who you are. You

figure out what drives you and then let your kids shine within the atmosphere you create.

The most important thing every teacher should understand is that teaching is the art of being imitated.

Rest is not the opposite of work, but rather work of a different order.

Rest, then, is not the absence of work or toil. It is the absence of anxiety or frenzy.

We care about our relationships more than about our accomplishments. That’s the way God made us.

do we yell over a math lesson or lose our temper over a writing assignment?

We forget that we are dealing with a soul, a precious child bearing the image of God,

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

We like to feed our egos. When our children perform well, we can puff up with satisfaction and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done.

it is far more important that we love them well.

Take a moment. Take ten.

Look deep into your child’s eyes. Listen, even when you’re bored. Break out a game or an old picture book you haven’t read in ages.

Your children are not ordinary kids or ordinary people, because there are no ordinary kids or ordinary people. They are little reflections of the Almighty.

It’s what happens after death that really counts.

“Teachers shall teach less and scholars shall learn more.”

Meaningful learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas—not

We fill up when we read a good book, take a long hike, listen and learn, and connect with others.

Choose a literary mentor.

find it helpful to choose one particular author each year to focus on.

C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Elizabeth Goudge, Flannery O’Connor,

Wendell Barry, P.D. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte Mason, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Esolen, James Sire, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot—just

Take a class.

Keep a commonplace book.

They can be words from a novel,

This is the heart of my commonplace and what really makes it a treasure.

amongstlovelythings.com/commonplace-book.

Start a Scholé Sisters Group.

something new I’ve learned, I really want to connect with someone about it.

We were made for community!

If teaching is the art of imitation, then we ought to make ourselves worthy of imitation.

By our very nature, as mothers we are saying “imitate me.”

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