Hey everyone. Welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I'm Durenda, wife to one,

mom to eight, Nana to 11, and 30-year veteran homeschooling mom. I'm also the author of four

books, The Unhurried

Homestchooler, The Four-Hour-Hourn-Hourned Grace for a Mom's Heart, and my latest book,

Raising Boys to Men, a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling and raising boys. I hope you'll

check those books out. You can find them at Amazon and you can find them at my website.

All right. Also, I want to let you know if you have read The Unhurried Home Schooler or, well, if you haven't and you like audiobooks, you can now listen to the audiobooks from my website, Durinda Wilson.com. You can purchase it there. We're really excited

to bring that to you because it's been a long time coming. I think I wrote that book about seven

years ago. We finally made an audiobook out of it. So I hope if you love audiobooks, you will go

and check that out. Just go to Duranda Wilson.com slash audiobooks. I'll leave a link in the show

notes. Also, I'm going to be speaking in five, possibly six different places during the conference

season this year. So I'm going to leave a link in the show notes so that you can see if there's

a conference in your area that I'm going to be speaking at.

I would love to meet you in person. Now, if you've got teens, be sure to listen after the prayer

at the end of this episode to hear about an opportunity you will not want to miss.

After hearing about my family's negative experience with CPS, you might be concerned about what CPS could do to your family, and rightly so, but did you know it is possible to reduce your likelihood of being reported just by educating yourself about your state's laws? In addition to offering legal defense for Christian homeschool families, our sponsor, Heritage Defense, has a law and

policy vault, which is free to the public. You don't even have to be a member. The vault has

summaries of laws in all 50 states covering a variety of issues ranging from vaccines for homeschoolers

to newborn health policies. Understanding the law helps families make better decisions and reduces the likelihood of

being falsely reported. I'll leave a link in the show notes to that vault so that you can see the

laws in your state. Today we're going to be talking about homeschooling. Not homeschooling,

homesteading. But we're going to do it from a little more of a cautionary and humorous perspective.

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