Each year, the new year offers both celebration and renewal. We come together in communities with family and friends to celebrate the old year’s passing and to welcome the new.
This Christmas may the torrent that is His Spirit flow in us and through us, advancing the restoration of humanity that began on the first Christmas.
Kaleb recounts how he and Sarah discovered Ambleside and fell in love with its transformative approach to education and life.
During our search for a nurturing environment for our daughter, we discovered an Ambleside school and its unique educational philosophy.
Charlotte Mason was an intensely private person, and some aspects of her life have only come to light over the last ten years. Here are some lesser-known facts about Charlotte.
Thania described a Charlotte Mason education as rich, inspiring, and life-changing. Not only did it change the way she viewed learning as a homeschool mother, but it truly instilled a joy of learning and the desire to become lifelong learners in herself and in her children.
Before Ambleside, I attended traditional Christian schools. In third grade, I was depressed, acting out, behind in math, trailing in reading, and I hated school. I was deeply convinced that I was stupid. My parents were fearful for my future, questioning if I would even graduate high school.
In considering their children’s education, parents often ask themselves “what kind of person do I want my child to be like when he or she turns 18?”
In the five years since graduating from Ambleside, I have held close the loves that it shaped in me. I love peaceful learning; Ambleside formed in me a diligence and deep interest which outlasts and supersedes the bribery of grades, the perfectionism that drives procrastination, and the harshness of hurry.
When a child whose relational guidance system is malformed, such that he doesn’t recognize certain behaviors as being inappropriate or hurtful, it is important to make the distinction between two different kinds of disobedience: Defiant Disobedience and Supra-conscious Disobedience.
