007: Choose to Challenge: Women’s Month, CM principles, #WeReadWomen
Welcome to the Filipino Parent's Review Podcast! It's Women's Month and this year's IWD theme is #ChooseToChallenge and that is what we are bringing in this episode.
***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***
We talk about empowered females in books and shows. Jumie talks about Chanel Miller's groundbreaking memoir, Know My Name and opened the conversation about gendered boundaries. Angel talks about Veronica Mars and its parallelism to what she experienced as a young female expert in a male-dominated industry.
***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***
We discuss more about habits as we try to dig into what Charlotte Mason means when she said that it is the parents' job to initiate thoughts, desires, and feelings. Jumie shares her inhibitions as Angel offers a possible angle thus resulting to a very interesting conversation which may have birthed a new project sometime soon.
***Mama Me-Time Plans***
#WeReadWomen for the whole month of March and here we share our TBR titles plus our ongoing struggle to finish reading Jane Eyre.
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**Wall of Quotes**
Men had lines other men didn't cross, an unspoken respected space. I imagine a thick line drawn like a perimeter around Lucas. Men would speak to me as if no line existed, everyday I was forced to redraw it as quickly as I could. Why weren't my boundaries inherent?
-Chanel Miller, *Know My Name*
The situation it produces for us, however, is brilliantly clear. We are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction. Therefore the primary task in living, for any human being, is to find and do the work for which he or she was created.
-Mary McDermott Shideler, Introduction. Dorothy Sayers, *Are Women Human?*
[The child is still] immature of will, feeble in moral power, unused to the weapons of the spiritual warfare... He depends upon his parents; it rests with them to initiate the thoughts he shall think, the desires he shall cherish, the feelings he shall allow.
Children depend on their parents to initiate the thoughts and desires that fill their minds. Parents initiate these thoughts, but that's all. Once a thought is begun in a child's mind, it takes hold and develops itself, resulting in habits that become his character into adulthood. (modern paraphrase)
-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*
Understanding who we are, how we relate to the world, how we view others, and the issues of power and control is critical to creating change in ourselves and ultimately broader social change for all children.
-Teresa Graham Brett, *Parenting for Social Change*
Two primary principles—children are born persons and education is the science of relations—influence the ways in which we motivate our students. Persons have a natural desire—curiosity—to form relationships with knowledge of all kinds. If our teaching invokes motives that hinder the natural development of those relations, we are infringing on their personhood.
-Karen Glass, *In Vital Harmony*
The most important of which is that children are born persons. Because each child is a person, our authority should not be arbitrary but should be tempered by the respect due a person. No authority gives us the right to trespass upon the personhood of a child. The fourth principle says we must remember that the personality of a child “must not be encroached upon, whether by the direct use of fear or love, suggestion or influence, or by undue play upon any one natural desire” (Philosophy of Education, xxix).
-Karen Glass, *In Vital Harmony*
**TFPR Booklist**
Know My Name by: Chanel Miller (https://amzn.to/3biWrRk)
Are Women Human? by: Dorothy Sayers (https://amzn.to/30j2gba)
Home Education by: Charlotte Mason (https://amzn.to/3rlv6DS)
Parenting for Social Change by: Teresa Graham Brett (https://amzn.to/3blHSwl)
In Vital Harmony by: Karen Glass (https://amzn.to/3kRp8bu)
Jane Eyre by: Charlotte Bronte (https://amzn.to/3qo1STr)
The Vanishing Half by: Brit Bennett (https://amzn.to/2Ow1Nj6)
The Authenticity Project by: Clare Pooley (https://amzn.to/3rnP9S6)
Trick Mirror by: Jia Tolentino (https://amzn.to/3rqh7MX)
Hood Feminism by: Mikki Kendall (https://amzn.to/30epP54)
The Conscious Parent by: Shefali Tsabary (https://amzn.to/3bmDkWC)
The Psychopath by: Mary Turner Thompson (https://amzn.to/3uYmBAO)
The Bigamist by: Mary Turner Thompson (https://amzn.to/3biAx0H)
Longbourn by: Jo Baker (https://amzn.to/3qmOFtS)
Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen (https://amzn.to/3kNkafN)
