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Hello, friends.

Welcome to the Brave Writer podcast, where we offer professional development for parent educators.

I'm Melissa Wiley. My co-host, Julie Bogart, is away this week, so you get a solo episode from me.

And here's what I did. I surveyed my family, and we put together a list of some of our favorite activities, materials,

routines that really worked for us over the years. As a reminder, I have six kids, ages 30 to 17,

so I'm still homeschooling my youngest. So that means I have a big pool of years to draw from.

And we had a lot of fun kind of brainstorming together about things that we especially loved or that really worked for us.

Now, some of our favorite things are things I've shared in recent episodes, so I'm not going to repeat those.

Like geocaching, hello.

I think I mentioned it every like fifth episode.

So I won't do that again. But these are just a collection of things that worked beautifully for us

at various times. And as I put together this list, I will say, there was such a spread among my kids

that there were times my youngest was like, wait, what are you talking about? I never heard of that.

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