I'm facing the hoarseness that comes with the beginning of the new school year. Its one of the drawbacks of the Charlotte Mason method of educating your children. One of the basic tenents of this method is exposing your children to excellent literature. I love this. I love reading good books to my children, I love encouraging them to research further when an idea comes from the reading. I love relearning and refreshing my own mind of the facts that lurk there, learned so many years ago, and learning new things alongside my kids. I enjoy the reading we do and the lessons so much. We read for hours a day, outloud, to one another, its a joy that I relish. My only complaint is that my voice is completely shot.
Sadly, I get so involved in our reading that I cannot help but dramatize the stories as I sit surrounded by my children. Truly good books require that sort of respect I think. Yet I think much is lost when midst the living argument I read aloud, I am reduced to coughing fitfully. So do I slowly make our way through our daily studies too hoarse by the time we get to Science that I can barely squeak out "molecule" or "atom"? Do I wait and attack our studies with more vigor once the public school kids return to their classrooms? Or do I simply accept that I will be hoarse for another few months until my voice is returned? I suppose that I'll simply accept my lost voice and continue on in our studies, because like the kids I cannot help myself when a good book calls to me. How can you deny your children when they beg to be taught?
Such a bizarre conumdrum.
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