Episode 8:
Meet the Hosts-
Min's Story
Welcome Friend!
As we begin to connect on this motherhood journey together through this podcast, each of us would like to share more of our story and heart with you – to invite you in to what God has been doing in HIS narrative of which we all are a part.
In so doing, it’s our hope that you might find YOUR story reflected in some way, and that you would find fellowship with us in this pilgrimage, and in this holy task of raising intelligent, disciples of JESUS.
Meet Min Hwang!
Do you relate to any of the following?
- Child of immigrant parents
- Pastor’s Wife
- Wanted to be a celibate missionary
- Lived overseas
- Homeschooling her own four, plus two of her friend’s children
- Knew she wanted to homeschool (and husband did too)
- Found CM online through websites and blogs, then “For the Children’s Sake” by Susan Schaeffer MaCaulay
- Heart for apologetics & working on an apologetics course/book for children and families to do together
- Creating a keepsake journal to accompany “Ourselves Book I” by Charlotte Mason
- Aspiring, self-taught artist & encourager of moms to cultivate their creativity through carving out mother culture time
We have been greatly encouraged by your messages and your reviews! We read each and every one. Please keep them coming!
For such a time as this,
Simone, Erika, Min, & Mariana
Quotes & Notes
“There are two guides to moral and intellectual self-management to offer to children, which we may call ‘the way of the will’ and ‘the way of the reason.’
The way of the will: Children should be taught, (a) to distinguish between ‘I want’ and ‘I will.’ (b) That the way to will effectively is to turn our thoughts from that which we desire but do not will. (c) That the best way to turn our thoughts is to think of or do some quite different thing, entertaining or interesting. (d) That after a little rest in this way, the will returns to its work with new vigour.
The way of reason: We teach children, too, not to ‘lean (too confidently) to their own understanding’; because the function of reason is to give logical demonstration (a) of mathematical truth, (b) of an initial idea, accepted by the will. In the former case, reason is, practically, an infallible guide, but in the latter, it is not always a safe one; for, whether that idea be right or wrong, reason will confirm it by irrefragable proofs.
Therefore, children should be taught, as they become mature enough to understand such teaching, that the chief responsibility which rests on them as persons is the acceptance or rejection of ideas. To help them in this choice we give them principles of conduct, and a wide range of the knowledge fitted to them. These principles should save children from some of the loose thinking and heedless action which cause most of us to live at a lower level than we need.” ~Charlotte Mason
“As mothers especially, we have this duty to give them this right [of liberty to will]. It is a right that every human being has: to be able to not be enslaved by their chance desires but to be able to choose… It is by our strength of will that we choose the ideas we will accept. And then from there, our reason will run away with it. So that initial acceptance of a particular, living idea is crucial, and therefore, the will, being strong enough to reject or to accept, and to be able to discern rightly according to the scriptures…is essential.” ~Min Hwang
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
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Min
Hwang
Mariana Mastracchio
Simone
Moradi
