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A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PODCASTS, WEBSITES, CONFERENCES, AND MORE TO HELP YOU CULTIVATE YOUR OWN RICH FEAST OF IDEAS

“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!”

We often hear that we can't pour from an empty cup, and the idea of "self care" is very trendy right now. But what I love about Miss Mason's concept of mother culture is that it isn't just a superficial prescription for "self care."

Because mothers are born persons, too, it's really a call to continue growing and developing as a mother-teacher, to feast on a steady diet of living ideas, and to learn to do for ourselves what we do for our children. It's a call to fill up our cups with beauty, goodness, & truth, not only for our children, but for ourselves, too.

"Mother must have time to herself. And we must not say 'I cannot.' Can any of us say till we have tried, not for one week, but for one whole year, day after day, that we 'cannot' get one half-hour out of the twenty-four for 'Mother Culture?'--one half-hour in which we can read, think, or 'remember.'" -CM

As a former public school teacher, the concept of "teacher development" wasn't foreign to me, but the term "mother culture" was. It wasn't until I was well into my journey with Charlotte Mason that I encountered this idea of mother culture, and I instantly fell in love!

[Updated Nov. 30, 2024]

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