ABOUT THE BOOK Are you disappointed with dumbed-down reading material (“twaddle”) written for children? Do you wish for your children to feast their hearts and minds on noble ideas, fine art, and great literature? Are you hoping your children gain an appreciation of nature and a deep understanding of natural sciences? Most importantly, do you want your children to develop a lifetime love of learning? If you answered “yes,” you may discover a Charlotte Mason-inspired twaddle-free education is just what you’ve been looking for. A Twaddle-Free Education is intended to be a simple introduction to Charlotte Mason's ideas for those either unfamiliar with or new to Charlotte Mason's methods. It can also serve as a quick refresher and encouragement for current Charlotte Mason home educators. Charlotte Mason was a British educator from the last century whose ideas are currently experiencing a renewal among home educators and private schools throughout the world. A Twaddle-Free Education is a long time Charlotte Mason home educator's personal experiences and thoughts on applying a Charlotte Mason-style education simply and naturally in a modern American home school setting. ABOUT THE AUTHOR In the mid-1990’s, Deborah Taylor-Hough set up one of the first Charlotte Mason homeschooling websites and edited The Charlotte Mason Monthly newsletter. Debi currently edits The Charlotte Mason eMagazine and blogs at CharlotteMasonHome.com CONTENTS INCLUDE: <ul>
<li>My Introduction to Charlotte Mason</li>
<li>Charlotte Mason in a Nutshell</li>
<li>Narration Tips</li>
<li>Natural Nature Learning</li>
<li>Homeschooling with a Rock Bottom Budget</li>
<li>Scheduling a Charlotte Mason-style Homeschooling Day</li>
<li>Twaddle-Free Literature by Grade Level</li>
<li>Frugal Family Field Trips</li>
<li>Twaddle-Free Holidays</li>
<li>Interview with the Author</li>
<li>Are All Homeschooling Methods Created Equal?</li>
<li>… and more!</li>
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 A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason’s Timeless Educational Ideas, is available in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats.

A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

Education & Teaching

Taylor-Hough, Deborah

Schools & Teaching

Simple Pleasures Press

Feel like you’re trying to dig out from under a mountain of debt without a shovel? Tired of working your tail off just to break even? Is the high cost of living taking all the joy out of life? Unless you’re one of the top two percent of wealthiest Americans, all of the above should sound painfully familiar. While they’re trying to decide between the ski lodge in Telluride and the Tuscan villa, for the rest of us, it’s an endless litany of corporate lay-offs, stagnant wages, crushing credit card debt, skyrocketing medical costs, exorbitant utility bills, the high cost of higher education.... And they call this “the good life.” Is there a better way to live? Can you get what you need and what you want without killing yourself to get it? “Absolutely,” says frugal-living guru Deborah Taylor-Hough, and in Frugal Living For Dummies, she shows you how. 
In this warmhearted guide to living the good life on less, Deborah shows you how to live within your means and enjoy doing it. Among other things, she shows you how to: <ul>
<li>Eat like a king on a peasant’s budget</li> <li>Take the sting out of gift-giving</li> <li>Dress well on a shoestring</li> <li>Save big bucks on family expenses</li> <li>Slash household expenses</li> <li>Save on medical expenses</li> <li>Involve the whole family in saving money</li> <li>Save more for the things you want</li> </ul>
From basement to attic, cradle to grave, Frugal Living For Dummies covers all areas of life with common sense advice and guidance on: <ul>
<li>Working with your partner to achieve financial goals</li> <li>Going to the grocery without being taken to the cleaners</li> <li>Quick and thrifty cooking techniques</li> <li>Providing kids the basics on a tight budget</li> <li>Putting kids through school without going broke</li> <li>Looking good and feeling good on a tight budget</li> <li>Frugal holiday fun year round</li> <li>Saving money around the house and driveway</li> <li>Finding quality in pre-owned merchandise</li> </ul>
Packed with tried-and-true techniques for cutting costs and stopping the insanity, Frugal Living For Dummies is the ultimate financial survival guide for the rest of us.

Frugal Living For Dummies

Business & Money

Personal Finance

For Dummies

The best-selling freezer-based cookbook, with more than 22,000 copies sold. This breakthrough cookbook delivers a program for readers to cook a week or month's worth of meals in just one day by using easy and affordable recipes to create a customized meal plan. Deborah Taylor-Hough, who saved $24,000 on her family's total grocery bill during a five-year period, offers up kid-tested and family-approved recipes in Frozen Assets, plus bulk-cooking tips for singles, shopping lists, recipes for two-week and 30-day meal plans, and a ten-day plan to eliminate cooking over the holidays. Cooking for the freezer allows you to plan ahead, purchase items in bulk, cut down on waste, and stop those all-too-frequent trips to the drive-thru. The hands-down authority on once-a-month cooking, Frozen Assets gives you a step-by-step plan to simplify and revolutionize the way you cook. "Finally, a realistic way to combine the cost-effectiveness of cooking from scratch with the convenience of quick and easy meals!" -Mary Hunt, author of The Financially Confident Woman "Belongs in every family's kitchen! One of the best time - and money - savers a busy family can have." -The Dollar Stretcher "Offers relief to those tired of eating restaurant fare or expensive, over-packaged convenience foods at the end of a hard day." -Library Journal

Frozen Assets: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Canning & Preserving

Sourcebooks

Low-fat, lower-calorie bulk cooking from bestselling author Deborah Taylor-Hough. Through the bestselling cookbook Frozen Assets, Deborah Taylor-Hough became known as the "once-a-month" cooking expert. She taught people how to increase time at the family table while decreasing time in the kitchen and drive-thru lanes. She also saved more than $24,000 over a five-year period and taught readers to do the same. In Frozen Assets Lite and Easy, Taylor-Hough is back with a book of lowfat, lower-calorie meal plans that use the same time-saving and cost-effective methods. Why cook every night when you can cook once a week for seven (or more) delicious, healthy, family-approved meals? Frozen Assets Lite and Easy shows readers how to be healthy while still saving time and money, with shopping lists, recipes, and detailed instruction on how to make freezer cooking work for you.

Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Deborah Taylor-Hough is the queen of creative-cooking methods and her new cooking guide offers yet another way to revolutionize cooking. Forget running to the store to grab last-minute dinners, or calling the Pizza-Man while your child's stomach growls. Deborah will show you how to creatively "mix and match" your pantry contents to create great stating meals. Try your hand at the Mix-n-Match Soup, Use-it-Up Quiche, Mix-It-Up Muffins, and much more. In addition you'll find fun and easy ideas to keep kids busy in the kitchen, cooking tips and shortcuts, grocery saving hints and more!.

Mix and Match Recipes: Creative Recipes for Busy Kitchens

Entertaining & Holidays

Champion Press (WI)

Deborah Tayor-Hough established herself as the quintessential expert of once-a-month-cooking in her first two bestsellers, Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month: Frozen Assets and Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month: Frozen Assets Lite &amp; Easy. In this new collection you'll find everything you need to implement this economical and nutritious system. Choose from over 100 freezer-friendly recipes! In addition to Deborah's tried and true favorites you'll find favorites from her readers. Follow her easy 12 step plan to customize you own monthly menu. Includes a special section of vegetarian recipes. Learn how to save time with kitchen preparation tips and tricks. Discover which foods freeze well and which don't; learn all about storage options and much more! If once month of meals is intimidating, start small with one of Deborah's "Mini-Sessions." Includes weekly plans with complete shopping lists. Choose one week or combine them for a month of menus.

Frozen Assets Readers' Favorites: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Cooking Methods

Frozen Assets offers a step-by-step plan for spending less time in the kitchen without sacrificing nutrition value. By using these methods one can spend just one day in the kitchen each month and still enjoy a homemade meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner -- every day of the month! The book contains a complete outline for those looking to benefit from this cooking revolution. With 20 one-week meals plans, readers can cook in advance for the time increment they desire. They can also easily mix and match weekly recipes to match their family's preferences. This book is the one-stop resource for those looking to increase their time at the family table and decrease their time in the kitchen and drive-through lanes.

Baking

Deborah Taylor-Hough walks listeners through the methodology behind her revolutionary cooking method that allows home chefs to cook just one day, yet prepare enough meals for 30 days. Listeners will learn inside tips, hints, preparation ideas and planning strategies.

Frozen Assets Workshop

The number one complain of people today is the lack of meaning in their hectic lives. In her second book, A Simple Choice: a practical guide for saving your time, money and sanity, author Deborah Taylor-Hough addresses societal emptiness and the personal search for contentment. With an aim toward returning to emotional replenishment using clear, concise and uplifting examples, A Simple Choice not only examines the futility of keeping up with the Jones' but depicts the simply joy and fulfillment of keeping up with ourselves. Through practical help in the areas of home-keeping, family unity, saving money, spending plans, cooking and more, Deborah Taylor-Hough guides us down a simple life path. In an era of self-reflection, A Simple Choice holds the mirror of life's simple joys that are available to everyone.

A Simple Choice : A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanity

Self-Help

Motivational

By using the methods found in Frozen Assets, one can spend just one day in the kitchen each month and still enjoy a homemade meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner-every day of the month! This series has become the one-stop resource for those looking to increase their time at the family table, while decreasing their time in teh kitchen or drive-through lanes. Frozen Assets: Cook for A Day and Eat for a Month - the first book in Deborah Taylor Hough's revolutionary series features a holiday meal plan, monthly meals plans, and two-week meal plans.

Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month

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A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

Frugal Living For Dummies

Frozen Assets: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Mix and Match Recipes: Creative Recipes for Busy Kitchens

Frozen Assets Readers' Favorites: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month

Frozen Assets Workshop

A Simple Choice : A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanity

Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month