Charlotte Mason Planning Session
Your homeschool doesn’t need a new curriculum. It needs a plan built around your actual family.
One 60-minute session. Every child’s friction points mapped. Every child’s spark points found. A completely Charlotte mason planning help – a custom plan — Charlotte mason schedule, living books, habits — built entirely around who your children are.
“It’s 10am. You’re already drowning. And your beautiful Charlotte Mason timetable has completely fallen apart.”
One child is refusing math. Another needs help with writing. The youngest is calling your name from the other room. You’re being pulled in ten directions at once, wondering what you’re doing wrong.
So you do what most of us do. You switch curriculum. You buy a new planner. You follow a new Instagram account with a method that looks easier. You research. You reorganize. You try again on Monday.
And by Wednesday — it’s falling apart again.
Here’s what nobody tells you: the curriculum was never the problem.
Your kids don’t need different books. They need a plan built around who they actually are — their friction points, their spark points, their specific needs in this specific season. And you need a structure that stops putting you in ten places at once.
That’s not a curriculum problem. That’s a systems problem. And systems can be fixed.
Every child has friction points.
Every child has spark points.
Most Charlotte Mason plans ignore both. That’s why they fall apart by 10am.
What works against them
The subjects, tasks, or times of day your child consistently resists — the math that turns into a battle, the writing that ends in tears, the moment every morning when everything falls apart.
Most homeschool plans are built around an ideal child in an ideal day. Which is why they fall apart the moment your actual child sits down at the actual table.
What lights them up
The subjects, topics, or activities your child lights up for — the thing they’ll talk about for an hour without prompting, the work they reach for without being asked, the lesson where resistance disappears entirely.
Charlotte Mason believed deeply in knowing the individual child. When you build around spark points — and create strategies for friction points — everything changes.
“Your mornings stop feeling like a battle. Your children start working with more independence. And you stop being the bottleneck for everything — because your plan was actually built for your family.”
Here’s exactly what we build together
Before we meet, you fill out a short survey — everything about your children, what’s working, what’s falling apart. I read every word so we hit the ground running.
After your session
Your Custom Planning Guide
Within 48 hours, I send you a written document with everything we built together — your Charlotte mason schedule, living book lists, habit plan, and specific next steps. Something you can hold in your hands, reference every morning, and come back to whenever things get hard.
Hi — I’m Erin.
I’m a former teacher and curriculum director, a wife, and a Charlotte Mason homeschool mom to three children who are all wonderfully, complicatedly different from each other.
I came to Charlotte Mason after attending a local retreat — I walked in curious and a little desperate, and I walked out feeling like I had finally found what I had been looking for. A philosophy of education that treated my children as whole persons. That wove beauty and nature and living books and faith into one generous, unhurried day.
And then I tried to actually do it. With real children. In a real home.
My children each had friction points — subjects and tasks they consistently fought. And they each had spark points — things that lit them up naturally. And the moment I started building our days around that knowledge instead of ignoring it, everything shifted.
That’s what I do with the moms I work with now. I help you stop searching for the right curriculum and start building the right structure — one that’s made for your family, your children, and your real, imperfect life.
Living Ideas Planner · Former teacher & curriculum director · CM homeschool mom of three
I’m currently working with a small group of Charlotte Mason moms in one-on-one planning sessions. Here’s what I know from working with overwhelmed CM moms like you: the problem is almost never what you think it is. It’s not the curriculum. It’s not your children. It’s a structure that was built for someone else’s ideal family — not yours. That’s what we fix together.