68. (S4E26) Breaking the Cycle of Homeschool Despair: Don’t Let ‘What if...’ Get You Off Track
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Imagine this scene: your child is reading a book, and they’ve been reading for a few months now. Suddenly, you think, “What if I had taught them to read this other way? What if I had used this other philosophy from the beginning? What if my child were in school?”
When the "what ifs" show up, they can trigger worry, envy, and despair – and they can show up everywhere – but that isn’t serving you or your children!
So how can we keep these “what ifs” from derailing our homeschools? Today I want to address some of the big ones that tend to pop up in our lives.
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio |
| 0:19.0 | 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. |
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| 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 | So today I thought that we would discuss what to do with the problem of what if. |
| 1:07.0 | I get emails and phone calls all the time from homeschool parents just like you who were just like me. Let's be clear. |
| 1:15.2 | I was exactly like you. The only difference between me and you now is my journey is over. |
| 1:20.4 | I can't fix anything. Whatever went wrong, went wrong forever. You are still in |
| 1:26.1 | the trenches. You can adapt. You can adjust. You can try to bring some freshness and some life |
| 1:32.1 | to places that right now feel puzzling and challenging. |
| 1:36.3 | That said, there will be a day when your journey is over too, and you might even look back already |
| 1:42.3 | at a child who's reading and you think, |
| 1:44.4 | oh, what if I had taught them to read this way? |
| 1:46.7 | What if I had used this other philosophy from the beginning and didn't switch in the |
| 1:51.1 | middle? |
| 1:52.1 | What if my child were in school? |
| 1:54.8 | Would they be getting more of what they need |
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