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? **We would love to hear from you! Connect with us at:** https://www.instagram.com/thefilipinoparentsreview/ **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** * As part of the Amazon Affiliate program, we earn from qualifying purchase at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting us! America is Not In Five Years: A Novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes Jane Eyre (AmazonClassics Edition) Little Women The Rosie Project Series:The Rosie Project The Rosie Effect The Rosie Result The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection The Creed in Slow Motion Home Education by Charlotte Mason Mythos