63. (S4E21) Are you one big happy family? Homeschool advice for the frazzled!
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Are you a happy family… or are you not? Today, we hope to solve that dilemma!
There’s a temptation to only consider the family identity when we think about our families, and that can be a wonderful identity to share!
But a family is a collection of individuals and we can’t forget that. The friction of human beings living in a family space together is always going to feel a little bit like controlled chaos – and it’s totally okay if that’s the way that it is!
However, making space for everyone in your family to have some of your focused attention and some alone time or downtime is the challenge, particularly for big families. So how can we leverage the unique benefits of homeschooling to do that – and what should we avoid?
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- Pick up your copy of Family Math
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4 of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:08.0 | This season we are releasing via audio our most popular YouTube broadcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio |
| 0:19.2 | while you're running, driving in the car, or folding laundry. We will also sprinkle throughout this season |
| 0:26.7 | original content interviews with people I think are compelling to listen to. |
| 0:31.4 | If you get a chance please help us out by leaving a review at iTunes |
| 0:36.4 | or Stitcher or wherever you listen to Brave Writers Podcast. We really appreciate it. It helps us get the word out and it also gratifies all the people behind the scenes who worked so hard to bring these to you for free. |
| 0:50.0 | And now, let's get going with this episode. |
| 0:55.0 | Are you a big happy family or are you not? That's the question. And today we hope to solve that dilemma. I had |
| 1:10.9 | five kids. Well I still have them but they're all grown they have all despite all my |
| 1:15.8 | flaws all my mistakes all my failings turned into adults that I enjoy I look forward to |
| 1:22.1 | spending time with them I'm glad when they come home and I respect the choices they've made in their lives. |
| 1:28.0 | So we've had various strategies for how to get into adulthood and how to use your education. |
| 1:36.8 | A big family is a collection of individuals. A big family is a collection of individuals. There's a |
| 1:45.2 | temptation to just think about the family identity, oh we're the Bogarts, oh we're |
| 1:50.3 | the Smiths, oh we're the Hills,, oh, we're the Hills. |
| 1:52.6 | And that's a wonderful thing. |
| 1:54.1 | My kids love that identity. |
| 1:57.1 | But then within that group, our personalities, |
| 2:01.9 | our ambitions and desires that don't line up. |
| 2:05.0 | And sometimes those are even in conflict with each other. |
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