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Christian parenting I am Monica Swanson mom to four boys wife to Dr

Dave podcast host and author of Boy Mom, Raising Amazing, and the newly released

Becoming Home Schoolers.

Here on the podcast it is my goal to bring you practical advice and biblical wisdom for raising amazing kids and

building strong families.

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Aloha friends, Welcome back to the podcast. So great to be here with you today and

also welcome to the month of August. My goodness. It is already August and I saw a meme the other day that made me

laugh. It said, welcome to August, also known as the holidays, which isn't too far from the truth. I know back in July, we saw Halloween

costumes at our local Costco and my husband turned to me and he's like, what are

those? Because he just would have never guessed. But this is when they start

rolling it all out and if you know me at all you know I love fall and we don't really

have seasons in Hawaii so I'm not totally complaining. Okay but I I'm getting off topic, though it's not completely off topic because today we are talking about a change in season.

We are talking about back to school, which is huge.

I think in most of my years I almost feel like a bigger

transition in that August, September, back to school season than the new year

because so many of us really do plan our calendar around the school year calendar.

And I know that here in Hawaii, typically public school start going back into session at

the end of July, but I know that varies a lot depending on where you live, but I think most of us are thinking, transition, back to school, and honestly, I think by the end of summer, we have a lot of different feelings.

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