Secular Charlotte Mason

Here's a funny.  So, I went to this conference and attended various workshops, met various folks who's books and materials I have been using, as well as discovering some new ones.  Well, after attending their workshop, getting to see the materials up close and personal instead of only online, and getting to chat with some of their staff and parents I came home very excited about the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall WA. I'm telling Bassman all about it , showing him the various books I bought from them, and talking about this awesome camp for teens, when all of a sudden a lightbulb goes off. Turns out Bassman has actually attended one of their camps, a Bass Nature Camp and the folks who taught the nature portion are all from, or affiliated, with the Nature Awareness School. I remember him coming home from that camp so excited that was all he could talk about for months and he got several of their recommended readings for Christmas/Solstice that year.  It really had a profound effect on him and was a positive influence in our household.  Here's the funny part.  Bassman and I found them completely independently and through different avenues and without the other realising it. He found them trhough Victor Wooten's Bass Camp and I stumbled upon them a few months ago via a really cool herbal website that had been recommended to me. Now, we have been disappointed with the wilderness camps available in our area but I think we finally have a winner lol. At least we know we agree on this one.  And it's just one more reason KodyGirl wants to move to Washington lol (she was drooling over their classes last month). Their site will be added to the website's links page and once I finish reading them I suspect their books will make it to the Nature Study page as well.