85. (S5E10) Prepping Your Teen for Adulthood | with Myah St. John
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Our guest Myah St. John homeschools three children (plus a newborn), and her oldest child, 14, is on the verge of high school. Myah’s always embraced a one-room schoolhouse model for her family, but she finds herself floundering trying to balance high school with elementary school... and as her teenage daughter starts to become a young woman.
Why do our children become these people we don’t understand? How do they transform so quickly from a young kid happy to be part of the team to a young adult with their own opinions, wants, and needs – which they are more than happy to share with us, loudly?
We don’t always think about this transition in our children’s lives, but eventually, your pleasant young children will become teens, and they’ll start trying to figure out how they can be individuals in a homeschool household. This can be a big challenge, for both your and your child, but Julie is here to offer a helping hand.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that caricature of teenagers you see on TV the one where the teen |
| 0:10.0 | talks back and is bratty and rebellious and goes to public school and slams the |
| 0:16.1 | locker door. Yeah I know you know those kids. I was pretty convinced I'd never |
| 0:21.3 | have one of those because hey I chose to homeschool and we were |
| 0:25.2 | going to be close and bonded. I'd always know what was going on in the minds of my kids and they'd |
| 0:30.6 | always want to tell me. Yeah, that isn't quite how it went. |
| 0:35.0 | I mean, I had great teenagers, |
| 0:38.0 | and we talked a lot, but they shocked the living daylights out of me on a regular basis. |
| 0:44.8 | Their thought patterns, their ideas, their desires. |
| 0:49.1 | Even something as simple as arguing over which radio station we would play in the car took me by surprise. |
| 0:57.0 | Today's conversation with Maya St. John is all about that journey. |
| 1:04.0 | Why do our kids stop wanting to be a part of the read-a-loud time? |
| 1:09.0 | Why do our kids turn down a chance to hang out with their grandparents. |
| 1:13.0 | Why do they become these people we don't understand? |
| 1:16.0 | And why do they voice their opinions suddenly with so much strength |
| 1:20.0 | after they used to be such go along to get a long kind of kids. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's delve into this aspect of high school life. |
| 1:29.0 | The transition from being young, pleasant children to teens trying to figure out how to be |
| 1:36.6 | individuals in a homeschool household. Join me will you? Welcome to the Brave Writer Podcast. |
| 1:47.0 | With me on today's episode is Maya St. John, homeschooling mother of three children who range in age from 14 down to 9, but also with a brand new baby |
| 1:58.8 | do this summer. Maya, her husband Josh and their family live in a 1900-style farmhouse in Roanoke, Indiana, |
| 2:08.0 | on a farm which includes two ponies, 15 chickens, four ducks, two cats, a bunny, a dog, and a huge garden. So you can imagine that |
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