God has put your family together and exactly the way they are, and he has placed you with them.

And so this is a God-ordained mission that he has you on.

Dorinda Wilson is an author, speaker, and podcaster.

She's been happily married to Daryl for almost 35 years.

She's a mom of eight whom she homeschooled from kindergarten to graduation.

And she's a nana to 12.

So far.

Dorenda, thanks so much for joining us on takeaways.

Thank you for having me.

It's great to be here.

Well, I'm encouraged and impressed

eight children and you're homeschooling your kids. My wife, Chelsea, and I have six children.

We homeschooled them for a lot of the time as well, and now they're in their 20s, and now we're

about to become grandparents. So as you look back, are you happy that you homeschooled your kids? And what's maybe the biggest

reason you're thankful that you did? Yeah, you know, my husband and I really felt strongly that

we were called to disciple our kids. And in order to do that, we had to spend time with them.

And we felt like sending them away every day was not conducive to what we

believe that God wants us to do with our kids. And so that sort of was the catalyst for keeping them

home. In terms of how it affected me, I know that as a mom, there are ways that I bonded with my kids that I don't think I would have had they

been away from me all day. And so there's this unique bond that I feel like I have with our kids

because of all the time we spent together. And then also just the depending on the Lord was just

such a huge part of homeschooling them because there's some

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