Best of RAR: No More Bookish Overwhelm

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

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

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’ve got another Best Of RAR episode for you.

I wanted to revisit this episode because it feels extra relevant this time of year as we’re thinking about setting goals and resolutions for the year ahead.

Personally, I tend to feel a little overwhelmed by it and I bet some of you can relate.

And when it comes to books and goals for our reading lives, one of the things we hear at Read Aloud Revival all the time is, “There are so many books and so little time!”

There are SO MANY good books we want to read aloud with our families and we’re always trying to figure out how to fit more in. But we don’t want our read-alouds to become merely another item on our lengthy to-do lists. So how do we quell the bookish overwhelm?

That’s what I’m breaking down in this replay of an Ask Sarah episode with that exact question.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

What it really means to read aloud “every day”
Why it’s okay if you don’t get to all of the books (promise!)
Simple ways to expand the genres you and your kids read

Learn more about Sarah Mackenzie:

Find the rest of the show notes at: readaloudrevival.com/how-to-quell-overwhelm

Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello there, Sarah McKinsey here and you've got another best of episode here on the read aloud revival podcast,
0:07.8	the show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.
0:12.6	I'm doing another Best Up episode because this is one that feels very pertinent,
0:18.2	very relevant, shall we say, to this time of year.
0:21.3	I don't know if you're big on setting goals, new year's
0:23.5	resolutions, that kind of thing, but I get a little stressed and overwhelmed when I'm
0:28.8	thinking about all the ways I want to improve my life. Anyone relate?
0:31.3	One of the things that we hear a lot at Read aloud Revival is some version of,
0:37.0	there are so many books and there's so little time.
0:40.0	And we have sort of this feeling of overwhelm in our reading lives, especially as it comes,
0:45.2	it relates I should say, to reading aloud with our kids. We want to make sure we read aloud all these
0:50.6	wonderful books and there just never feels like enough time. can I fit more time in how can I make this work
0:55.9	Anyway, this is a episode from quite a while ago that I thought would be good to revisit because April called in with a question asking this exact question
1:06.0	So many books so little time how do we fit it in how do we we were already reading a lot a lot
1:11.0	How do we read a lot more? So I want to, I kind of break it down into a few many questions, and we're really talking about how to quell,
1:18.0	overwhelm in our reading lives. This is going to be relevant to you reading aloud to your kids and also to your own reading life.
1:25.6	I'll be back in two weeks with another brand new episode you haven't heard before, but I wanted to make
1:30.6	sure we gave this one a little bit of time in the sun, especially if you are thinking
1:34.4	toward goals and toward the new year and you're starting to feel a little bit of that overwhelm,
1:38.6	wiggle its way into your brain. I thought this might be a helpful episode to replay. So please enjoy this Ask Sarah episode,
1:46.5	a best of the Read A Loud Revival. Hi Sarah. My name is Holly. My name is April. I'm in Melbourne Australia.
2:01.0	I have a question about my name's Julianne and we live in India. I am
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