Creating self motivated learners, choosing curriculum, and why it’s ok to disappoint people sometimes (Homeschool Q & A Part 2)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk about:
⁃ Why curriculum is made to serve you and not the other way around.
⁃ How to create a memory hook so that what you teach will stick
⁃ Why we want to create self motivated learners
⁃ Working outside the home and homeschooling
⁃ How to make homeschool work financially in a “more is more” culture
⁃ How our perspective changes things
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Books:
The Call of the Wild and Free by Ainsley Arment
Teaching From Rest by Sarah Mackenzie
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intentional Parents Podcast. Intentional exists to help parents in their |
| 0:16.9 | God-given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, |
| 0:22.1 | and healing to families. |
| 0:24.0 | Each week we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle, |
| 0:28.0 | and what it looks like to follow Jesus in our time. |
| 0:31.0 | Intentional is made up of Philin- and Diane Comer and Brooke and Elizabeth Moser. I am Brooke and the |
| 0:36.4 | funny thing is we are all family. Elizabeth is Phil and Diane's daughter so we're a |
| 0:40.6 | family figuring this thing out together. |
| 0:43.0 | We hope this podcast feels like you're sitting with us in our home talking about how to do this thing |
| 0:48.7 | called life together. |
| 0:50.0 | Elizabeth and I are your host, let's get into this week's podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome back to the Intentional Parents Podcast. I am back with mom doing a part two of your |
| 1:07.8 | homeschool Q&A. You guys sent so many good questions about homeschool. |
| 1:13.4 | It's very evident that we are all in this together and all homeschooling |
| 1:18.4 | and we're going to attempt to answer some of your questions |
| 1:21.9 | and just as a reminder from just kind of where we're coming from with all of this mom you homeschooled for 26 years and I am only a year, less than a year and a half in. I was homeschooled, but less than a year and a half into homeschooling my own kids. So we have the master with years and years of wisdom when she first started it was literally illegal in California when she first started |
| 1:48.7 | There was no curriculum that's actually the first question we're going to answer. There wasn't curriculum, you had to make up your own curriculum. |
| 1:57.0 | And then I am right fresh in it with the rest of you listening. |
| 2:04.0 | So yeah, hopefully we can speak to |
| 2:08.0 | to the fears that I know all of us who are new at it |
| 2:12.0 | are feeling and hopefully I can speak to some of the |
| 2:16.4 | the questions and the freshness that there is to it right now. So we got a couple of questions about choosing a curriculum. How do you choose a curriculum? |
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