Modern Miss Mason

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 259 ratings

Price: 17.5

Last update: 12-20-2024


About this item

This book is your invitation to an adventure, a call to turn a corner on your already incredible journey of parenting and let Leah Boden show you the fresh face of an age-old perspective on motherhood, childhood, and education.

As a young mother and new home educator, Leah was overwhelmed by the breadth of available resources. How to know which to choose? What would best guide and inspire her children? Whose voices should she trust? That’s when she discovered the timeless work and words of Charlotte Mason. A groundbreaking and revolutionary voice in education, Charlotte breathed life and beauty back into childhood in a stiff archaic age, opening the eyes of parent-teachers and the hearts of students—and changing the future of home education.

Let Leah Boden show you how Charlotte Mason’s ideas can transform your homeschooling experience. She will help you do the following: find methods that you and your children can explore by learning through books, by being outdoors, and through living experiences; recognize that each child is unique and discover how to plan their learning journey accordingly; and learn how to practically incorporate Charlotte’s timeless philosophy into your home every day. In an overwhelming digital age that can distract and divert our attention from the past, turn back to Charlotte Mason’s educational ideas that started it all—and discover what they can do for you and your family.


Top reviews from the United States

  • Rebecca Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2024
    Definitely an encouraging book for all the moms out there trying to sift though the tons of material choice and way to school our kids.

    Defiantly worth a second read!
  • Mpeters
    5.0 out of 5 stars Charlotte Mason for the Modern Mom
    Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2024
    Leah has taken her extensive knowledge of the beloved work of Charlotte Mason and in this book shows us how to be practitioners of the philosophy in our modern world. Modern Miss Mason is both approachable and practical for homeschoolers in any stage of home education.
  • Larkin
    5.0 out of 5 stars A new favorite
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024
    Leah is one of my favorite homeschool mentors and this book is wonderful. It’s even better if you get the audible version and listen to her reading it to you with her lovely accent. :o)
  • R. Pope
    5.0 out of 5 stars A necessary read for all homeschoolers
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
    I’ve been homeschooling for 12 years and following the Charlotte Mason method for 6 of those years.

    I honestly didn’t expect to get that much out of this book because, frankly, I thought that I was pretty informed about the subject. I’ve read other homeschooling books that are aimed more exclusively towards beginning homeschoolers, and I assumed this would be the same.

    How wrong I was! Yes, this book is absolutely indispensable for new homeschoolers, but it also contained so much day to day practical wisdom that will help even the most experienced homeschoolers.

    Many of us understand the why of CM, but the how can be a bit trickier. This book willl help you implement CM principles in your home and will especially help you embrace the parts of the “feast” that you may have set aside because they seemed too complicated.

    Leah explains everything so well and so kindly that you’ll leave feeling perfectly equipped to tackle those educational mountains.

    A must buy
  • Christopher Stites
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's a good one.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2024
    First, the audio book is wonderful.
    Second, this book is a top recommendation I give to others.
    Third, Lead Boden leads a Substack group that really goes deep into Charlotte Mason.
    Forth, homeschooling is intimidating and what you find about Charlotte Mason online is overwhelming, so much so I completely disregarded it for 5 years. Leah takes a huge and important educational philosophy and gives us an entry point into understanding and to be inspired at what Home education could look like.
  • Elizabeth Lawrence
    5.0 out of 5 stars Encouragement for the intimidated!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2024
    The Modern Miss Mason gave me hope…that I could actually implement the CM philosophy despite my imperfect understanding and ability to “Do it all.” I’ve referred back to it often when I feel stuck or overwhelmed and she provides a simple next right step to help me keep going!
  • Rebekah
    3.0 out of 5 stars Apologetically “Christian”
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2023
    I will start off by saying that this book was pretty good. It is an easy ready and gives enough information or thoughts that keep you reading until the end.

    My biggest gripe is that this book is in the Christian category and reading the description and authors background I thought for sure there would be a Christian theme throughout. Especially since Charlotte was a Christian and her foundation for understanding children and education is routed in the truths she knew to be true i.e. all people are born persons. That assumption is based on the understanding that all humans are created by God in His image as the Bible teaches (imago dei is not a “god spark” as the author has stated).

    The author of this book has seemingly tried to strip Christianity from the Charlotte mason method in order to make it accessible to all and in doing so has created a new method of her own. Every time she mentions the fact that she is a “Christian” or that Charlotte was she does so while seemingly apologizing for it and says repeatedly that you can have no faith or a different faith and it doesn’t matter this method can be for you too. Yes. You can use the method and it will work but that is because it is rooted in truth and that truth never changes and is a firm solid foundation to build anything on whether you believe it or not.

    Not what I would be looking for in a Christian homeschooling book from a professing Christian author about another Christian who developed a method of education rooted in that Christian faith. If you are a secular homeschooler interested in CM you will probably love this but for a fellow Christian I would just pass on this one.
  • ryan p
    5.0 out of 5 stars True, Good, and Beautiful
    Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
    Holy highlights. I loved this book. I highlighted so many things. This book opened my eyes to doing Charlotte Mason in an effortless kind of way. Some resources are just daunting, but not this one. I recommend this to everyone starting out. I came from the world of public schooling so this was great at helping me grasp something that was relatively new and foreign to me. It’s been instrumental in my understanding of how I can make this style work for us individually. I was sad to finish it because I felt like our tea time conversation had ended. Her tone is genuine and warm.
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    ryan p
    5.0 out of 5 stars True, Good, and Beautiful
    Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
    Holy highlights. I loved this book. I highlighted so many things. This book opened my eyes to doing Charlotte Mason in an effortless kind of way. Some resources are just daunting, but not this one. I recommend this to everyone starting out. I came from the world of public schooling so this was great at helping me grasp something that was relatively new and foreign to me. It’s been instrumental in my understanding of how I can make this style work for us individually. I was sad to finish it because I felt like our tea time conversation had ended. Her tone is genuine and warm.
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