005: January Reads Recap and Series, CM Vol 1 Part 2 Key Concepts, Consider This

Welcome to the Filipino Parent's Review Podcast! 

***Books, TV, Movie, Song, Anything Review***

This episode is packed with a whole lot of book titles as we recap our January reads, talk about book series we love (including Gossip Girl—yes, it was based on a book series just in case you missed that part), and give you a glimpse of the books we have lined up for February.

***Book Club Discussion #TFPR_HomeEducation***

Here we discuss some key concepts from Part 2 of Home Education like nature journaling/nature diary and geography, and celebrate how we got a better understanding of what Charlotte Mason was saying after reading Consider This by Karen Glass.

***Mama Me-Time Plans***

Home rearrangements, more books, and street games—these are our plans for the weekend. Share yours?

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**Wall of Quotes**

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

-C.S. Lewis, *The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes*

Believing a thing (in the theological sense) means embracing it as something you are going to live by. And on the other hand, believing a thing does mean knowing what you are talking about, using your brains over it, not merely shouting it out as a slogan. Belief isn't just a matter of the intellect, isn't just a matter of the will; it is an activity of the whole man.

-Ronald Knox, *The Creed in Slow Motion*

Is it advisable, then, to teach the children the elements of natural science, of biology, botany, zoology? on the whole, no: the dissection even of a flower is painful to a sensitive child, and, during the first six or eight years of life, I would not teach them any botany which should necessitate the pulling of flowers to bits; much less should they be permitted to injure or destroy any (not noxious) form of animal life. Reverence for life, as a wonderful and awful gift, which a ruthless child may destroy but never can restore, is a lesson of first importance to the child—

"Let knowledge grow from more to more;

But more of reverence in us dwell." (Tennyson) 

-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*

"The formation of habits is education, and Education is the formation of habits."

-Charlotte Mason, *Home Education*

**TFPR Booklist**

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America is Not the Heart :[https://amzn.to/2MTEvmP](https://amzn.to/2MTEvmP)

In Five Years: A Novel [https://amzn.to/3jkYUx8](https://amzn.to/3jkYUx8)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel [https://amzn.to/2N14RDu](https://amzn.to/2N14RDu) 

Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition [https://amzn.to/3oOIT3B](https://amzn.to/3oOIT3B) 

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind [https://amzn.to/39LKl2p](https://amzn.to/39LKl2p) 

The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes [https://amzn.to/3rp0z7y](https://amzn.to/3rp0z7y) 

Jane Eyre (AmazonClassics Edition) [https://amzn.to/3azHLvI](https://amzn.to/3azHLvI)

Little Women [https://amzn.to/36H9wkE](https://amzn.to/36H9wkE) 

The Rosie Project Series:

The Rosie Project [https://amzn.to/2LprxwG](https://amzn.to/2LprxwG)

The Rosie Effect [https://amzn.to/3jk5Ev6](https://amzn.to/3jk5Ev6)

The Rosie Result [https://amzn.to/3q3uke9](https://amzn.to/3q3uke9)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection: [https://amzn.to/3jluE5](https://amzn.to/3jluE5h)

The Creed in Slow Motion [https://amzn.to/3pLfJ6N](https://amzn.to/3pLfJ6N) 

Home Education by Charlotte Mason [https://amzn.to/2MrAfLt](https://amzn.to/2MrAfLt) 

Mythos [https://amzn.to/3rnRGLt](https://amzn.to/3rnRGLt)