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Twaddle, anyone?

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Lill:
My apologies to anyone who responded to my previous post on this topic. I decided a poll would work better.

I also welcome any comments on the topic you'd like to leave.

This information is prep for a blog post.

Thank you.

Lill:
I'll come back and explain after I get a good number of responses on the poll. So far, my assumption is correct ... that people outside
of homeschooling aren't familiar with the terms.

Susan:
I know about Charlotte Mason, but twaddle, to me, is something Nero Wolfe always says when somebody's talking nonsense.  :)

Lill:
Well according to some die hard Charlotte Mason fans, what most of us write is twaddle. :) 

And I don't know who Nero Wolfe is. :)

Jaina:
Twaddle as a simple word for nonsense is something I'd think most people would know, even though it's antiquated and probably more familiar in the UK.

Twaddle in the specific Charlotte Mason sense is something I hadn't heard of before I started reading about the Charlotte Mason method, and I found it one of the least attractive aspects of that particular school of thought, largely because I think the things that were written for children were much more likely to BE "twaddle"--fanciful nonsense--back in Charlotte Mason's time, and not so much now.  I feel like, by and large, the days of thinking children are daft enough to want a steady diet of pointless drivel are long gone.  Anyway, it bothered me that there would be a parental discussion about which (current) books were Twaddle and which ones were not.  Nearly all books have *some* value, IMO.

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