Welcome to season four of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

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So before I begin, I want to say first without any number attached to it, to be a home

educator is to value learning. That is to say, you and I, we put a priority on education. We're into it. We want our kids to be educated. This isn't a light thing for us. Your kids know that you value education without having to say anything

because they see their friends in the soccer team

and they know that their other friends don't have moms staying

home with them to educate them. So even though they might not be able to articulate it

at a core level they know that their home is all about learning and that it's important to

their parents. It is this gift that creates the platform for all else that you do and truly if you come from that space not fear of

public schools but the valuing of education your children have already earned a sacred space in their hearts for learning.

And that is the core foundation that makes all the rest of it work.

You are already ahead of the game is what I'm trying to say. Just by living and

breathing the value of education around your children. Okay? So with that in mind, here are my 61 things I feel proud of. Number one, top of the list.

I read aloud to my kids, thousands of pages from all kinds of books,

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