83. (S5E8) Cultivating Connection in a Large Family | with Jardel Manalo
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jardel Manalo is a homeschooling mother of five, ranging from the ages of two to 12, who also opened her school doors to a wonderful 12-year-old young woman named Samantha.
That’s a lot of children at a lot of different stages in life – a situation we know many of you can relate to – and that can create a lot of pressure for us to perform, both as parents and teachers.
Jardel says, “I don't feel like I am able to connect with each of my children daily, both personally and academically ... Is this ok? Often, it leaves me feeling like such a failure because I'm failing at connecting with some of the kids ALL the time.”
You’re not a failure, Jardel, and neither are any of you reading – but for your own sanity, you might need to adjust your expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | It's no secret to homeschoolers that one of the reasons we keep our kids home |
| 0:09.8 | is because we want to form deep connected relationships with our children. We're |
| 0:15.2 | interested in them. We want to know them deeply and we also want them to feel |
| 0:20.6 | known, to feel loved, to feel valued. That goal seems so easy when they're |
| 0:28.4 | newborns and toddlers and still pudgy-faced, but as our children lengthen and become their own person, |
| 0:36.0 | sometimes we can wonder, |
| 0:38.0 | am I hitting the mark? |
| 0:40.0 | Are we connected? |
| 0:42.0 | Did I seek out enough one-on-one time with, you know, my middle child or the youngest? |
| 0:48.0 | Maybe I'm so busy focusing on the education of the older kids. |
| 0:52.0 | I keep parking the younger kid in front of the |
| 0:54.4 | television. Or maybe I'm so busy enjoying the playfulness of my younger kids. I keep pushing |
| 1:00.5 | the older kids to independence and I'm losing that sense of trust and |
| 1:04.8 | relaxed connection that I associated with their younger years. That is the |
| 1:10.8 | dilemma we come to today with Jardel. |
| 1:13.0 | She wants so much to give her kids, |
| 1:17.0 | something that she felt she didn't get when she was a kid. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's join her today and find out about how to grow connection in your |
| 1:27.1 | homeschool. |
| 1:31.1 | Welcome to today's episode of the Brave Writer podcast of Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 1:37.0 | The life we're meeting today is Jardel Manalo, homeschooling mother to her five children who range in ages from 12 all the way down to |
| 1:47.0 | two. |
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