I’m new to CM this year. We had Andreola’s Companion in the homeschool
library and I was the librarian this year. I was fascinated enough to
try to get a set of CM’s volumes. I only got 3 of them so far but it was
enough to intrigue me with her methods. We are putting it into practice
as much as we can every day.

Allen and I have been married since January 1, 1980 and we have nine
living children. They are 20, 18, 13, 11, 9 -10 tomorrow, 7, just turned
6, 3 and 8 months. [We had a birthday Friday and one tomorrow.] Five
girls and four boys.

We have been using Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum modified to fit our
lifestyle. This is also a literature based program but very rigid. I
liked the methods for teaching children to be autodidactic and they
correlate well with CM. I agree heartily with her views on allowing
children to play and have free time to express themselves and use their
imaginations. I also believe CM hit the nail on the head in wishing to
create life-time lovers of learning.

I hope to create this joy of learning in my children by demonstrating it
in my own life. I have discovered that they find many things fascinating
not the least of which is whatever I myself am exploring, whether that
is great paintings by Monet or gardening in my own backyard. I
especially like to try to encourage my children in whatever talents or
interests they display, which has included inventing, cartooning,
drawing, cooking, acting and paper curling.

We are going to create a Book of Centuries for history and social
studies this year and a Household Almanac for science and nature
studies. I’m trying to create a list of books to read but we are
starting with all the books on our own shelves. I look forward to
forming closer and encouraging relationships with the members of this
list.

[Written to my email group.]

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