What might a dad’s role be in a read-aloud home? And how can books shape our boys into the men we hope they’ll become?
On today’s show, Martin Cothran from Memoria Press chats with me about just that. Scroll down to listen.
Martin shares:
- advice for homeschool dads
- his standards for choosing books
- why stories are made to be heard
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Books from today’s episode:
- Little House on the Prairie
- Betsy-Tacy
- Penrod
- Seventeen
- Little Orvie
- Holy Bible, King James Version
- The Moffets
- The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
- Farmer Boy
- The Homegrown Preschooler
- The Green Ember
- Anne of Green Gables
- Dr. Seuss’s books
- The Natural History of Make-Believe
- Edward Lear’s books
- The Father Brown Reader
- Little Britches
- The Hobbit
- P.G. Wodehouse’s books
Other links from today’s show:
- For more information about membership, head here
- Coming up Jan. 17 — Live Author Event with Jonathan Bean, author of This is My Home, This is My School, and so much more!
- Memorial Press Online Academy
- The Classical Teacher
- The Literature of Life, Martin’s post about reading connecting his children with family friends
- The Lady of Shallot — the poem that Anne just can NOT read silently!
- The Dangerous Article for Boys by Martin Cothran (with an accompanying book list)
Excellent as always!!
Enjoy this one as much as all the others!! Just as an FYI: The cover of this podcast is incorrect. You might to fix it :)
That was my early morning mistake! Thanks for catching it :)
My husband and I love to read. We have books all over the place in our home. We are currently living at a seminary in a small apartment with 4 awesome kiddos. We bought 3 huge Ikea shelves when we moved here because my husband would no longer have a home office. I love that there are stacks of books everywhere from Curious George and Dr Seuss to Greek lexicons and Bible commentaries to recipe books and child-rearing, parenting books and read-alouds. I just recently posted a blog post on my new blog which I started a year ago about Reading Aloud to our children as they go to bed each night. And I am thankful for my husband who loves to read aloud to them as well. It is a gift.
I’m curious, what is your blog, I’d love to have a read.
Oh sure! It’s this post:
https://everymorningnewmercies.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/the-close-of-the-day/
What about husbands who HATE to read? My husband is an intelligent, skilled man, whose only use for reading is to gain the information necessary for something practical. He does read (or skim?) many articles online that are of interest to him, but when it comes to the printed page, he recoils in horror! He doesn’t like listening to anything read-aloud, and would rather do almost anything else than read aloud to our kids. (If I’m not at home at bedtime, he may or may not read something very short to the kids, since books are part of our bedtime routine.) Is there a way to include husbands who hate reading in the literary life of a home?
That’s a great question. My own personal value is for relationships over everything else, so if my husband really hated reading, I’d just let it be something I shared special with the kids. There are so many other wonderful traits and qualities in our husbands, I hate to think we’d be frustrated- or that he’d feel guilty or frustrated- over something like that. :) I’ll be watching to see if anyone else pipes in on this!
He mentioned an essay by G.K. Chesterton that I wanted to read, but I couldn’t understand what the title was. I was hoping it would be in the show notes, but I don’t see it. Anyone catch it?
It’s called The Ethics of Elfland.
Also mentioned was “Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen” by G. K. Chesterton.
I found it on Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14706
Ideas for the podcast:
I would love to hear Anne Wegner on this.
http://nonniesnotes.blogspot.com/
She’s one of my favorite homeschool bloggers.
I would also love to hear someone play “devil’s advocate” with a guest about why reading aloud matters.
“I know several adult men who never read, so why does an inner thought life matter?” type of questions.
Fabulous ideas- thank you!
Great podcast! I actually read out loud as a kid and still do if I really need to focus or if the material is particularly challenging. This is how I shut off the noise in my brain :)
BTW, in the show note links, there may be a mistake. I believe Mr. Cothran is from Memoria Press rather than “Memorial”.
I have to say that I LOVE all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, but I also have very fond memories of the TV show. We hardly watched any TV, but we did enjoy that delightful show. It’s not exactly the same as the books, but I do think it was beautiful & simple in its own right.
This is a great podcast!