Best of RAR: How to Make Time for Your Own Reading

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever find yourself wishing you had more time to read?

Oh, every day? (Yeah, we get that.)

We’re pretty confident that every mom wishes she had more time to read.

Carving out a little time to enjoy your own reading life is worthwhile, even in those seasons when you think it’s impossible. (Sarah has six kids, and when three of them were babies age one and under, it definitely felt like an impossible season!)

But reading makes us better humans, better mamas, and better women. It also makes us happier. And that matters.

Why? Because the key to a successful homeschool is a peaceful, happy mother.

When you know you can count on your reading life to be a source of joy and refreshment regardless of how tough the day is, you just might find yourself being a little happier. A little lighter. A little more joyful.

On today’s show, we’re talking about how to make time for your own reading life, even when it feels like you don’t have five minutes to spare.

Listen in for:

Ideas for sneaking in time to read (even on your busiest days)
How to make the most of surprise pockets of time
Strategies for handling interruptions, prioritizing your reading, and finding time to pick up a book even when you’re exhausted

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0:00.0	We've put together a brand new sample of R.A.R. Premium, so if you've been on the fence about joining us inside
0:07.5	R.A. premium, you can get a free sample now to see if it's a good fit for your family. To get that free sample go to read aloud
0:14.9	revival.com slash sample or just text the word R-A-R sample like it's all squished together in one word,
0:24.8	R-A-R-Sample to the number 3-3-7-7.
0:30.3	Okay, here's the show. Hello, Sarah McKinsey here with another episode of the Read-A-Low-Makinsey here with another episode of The Read Aloud Revival Podcast, the show that helps your kids
0:46.2	fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling. Do you wish you had more time to read? Okay I could hear you from
0:58.0	here. I think every mom I know wishes she had more time for her own reading.
1:04.4	So today, that's what we're going to talk about.
1:07.2	How to make time for your own reading, even when you have so very many things on your plate and your kids are around all the time and you're thinking I will never read a book for fun again. When am I going to do that?
1:24.2	This is a Best of R-A-R episode,
1:27.0	but this is actually not something
1:29.8	that we have aired previously here on the podcast. It was only aired as a masterclass in
1:35.5	RAR premium several years ago in fact. So I would bet there's a good chance you haven't heard this yet and if you have I would
1:45.2	bet there are some new strategies in here that might work for you so it's full of
1:49.3	so many great ideas on how to sneak more reading time into your busy days. So I wanted to gift this with you today because even though this is a very busy season for so many of us, for moms especially, man, spring just feels very, very busy, very full.
2:06.0	You'll probably have kids and activities and the school year is in full swing,
2:10.0	but also coming to an end.
2:11.0	You kind of got your eye on the end of your stuff coming up.
2:15.1	Maybe you're putting in a garden, you've got your eye on that.
2:18.2	There's just a lot of things going on, but you can still make some time for your own reading life and it's really worth doing because your reading life can be a tremendous source of joy a well spring of joy that you always have available to you even on your hardest days
2:31.6	So without further ado let's get some ideas for how to make more time for our own reading.
2:38.0	One of the things that always comes up when we do a new book club, Mama Book Club,
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