Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys have found me at my little corner of the internet

We're ready to start a brand new week today is Monday the 4th of April and today instead of doing mailbox Monday

I have a treat for you my friend Steve Lambert's on the show. We're going to talk to those of you whose homeschool needs a little CPR and we think children prefer reading stick around

I think you're going to be encouraged. So thank you guys for tuning in today. Hope you had a great weekend for those of you who are able to join me and round rock Texas for teach them diligently. I hope you guys left feeling lighter than when you came in. So many things happening in the country right now and we need to encourage each other.

Which is why I'm very excited to have my friend Steve Lambert on the show. Stephen, I have been kicking around for a long time now. I met him many years ago at a homeschool conference in Washington state. He has a lovely story. I'm sure he'll love to tell about that. But his wife Jane is the author of a very popular homeschool curriculum called five in a row and they become some of our dearest friends on the planet. Stephen Jane live and Lee some of Missouri another one of our favorite places.

Please welcome my friend Steve Lambert to the show. Hey, how you doing, Steve? Good. Good. Heidi, always good to be with you. I'm glad that you're here. And we're going to get to see you here pretty quick too. You're going to be in my neck of the woods, which I'm pretty excited about.

Yeah, Jane and I'll be out there later this week coming in Thursday. So we'll see you in just three more days. I'm excited. Hey, you and I were talking about this before the show. We are, you know, kind of, you know, what kind of encouragement you have such a gift for encouraging homeschool moms. It's really how I met you guys out in the road. You're speaking in Jane.

Of course, you guys are also exhibiting for five in a row. But you have a really unique ability, I think to come alongside that homeschool mom who is just like, I'm them. I cannot do this for one more second. If one more person asked me for one more thing. If one more kid tells me she loses her math book or she doesn't like the way I do school or she wishes she was back in school.

I'm just going to quit. And you said something about, you know, your homeschools on CPR. And then you made an acronym for which I thought was so cute.

Well, you're the queen of acronyms. Heidi. So that is true. I couldn't be your guest without coming up with some sort of an acronym.

Well, I love what you said because you, you guys have a real love Jane, especially because of obviously she's the author of five in a row, but of reading for children you said you said, you know, homeschools on CPR.

And was it children prefer reading? Is that what you came up with? That's what I came up with. That was genius. It really was. Yeah, that should be the listen. Everybody who's listening to this right now.

Quick Steve's going to have to run out and buy the domain name because you need to write a book with that title.

Probably a pretty good idea actually. It is children do prefer reading. And you know, I've been doing this now. I started homeschooling 41 years ago.

You weren't even born then, Heidi. Because you're 30. Yeah, I'm 30.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. So 1981, we started probably at least two thirds of your audience wasn't born then either.

And we've been on this business since 1994. So this is our 28th year with five in our own. We've traveled with hundreds of locations speaking throughout the country over the last 28 years.

And one of the common themes we hear and was sometimes, you know, there's early early starters that we hear this from in September, October. But most moms, we hear this from in about the beginning of April that they're just done for the year.

Yeah, they're some of them are done in October. But most of them make it till April. And then they're just kind of burned out. And every day has become a battle and the weather's turning nice and the kids want to be outside.

So, so how do you make it from here to the finish line? You know, I'm supposed to make it another couple of months or so. Some of you school year round. And so one of the things that we've discovered over the years is that when all else fails.

I don't know if you've ever had a day when all else is failed. I have.

I think most moms have. Yeah, we had a few of those days back clear back in the 80s. Yeah, yeah. When all else fails reading aloud with your kids will save the day. It'll save you from tearing out clumps of hair. It'll save them from crying and going to the room. And it'll save some of their academic achievement scores at the end of the year.

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