Hey everyone. This is Dorenda Wilson. Welcome to this week's podcast. If you're a new listener,

I am married to Daryl and we've been married for almost 29 years. We have eight kids,

ages 13 to 27. We have four grandkids and we've been homes for almost 29 years. We have eight kids ages 13 to 27. We have four grandkids,

and we've been homeschooling for 23 years. If you have not already checked out my book,

The Unhurried Homestooler, I encourage you to go check it out on Amazon. It is a simple,

mercifully short book on homeschooling, and I think you'll be encouraged. Summer's a great time to read up and just sort of like regroup and think about how you want to

do the next homeschooling year. So I think you'd really enjoy this. Also, I recently published a book

called The Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart, and this is 31 days in God's word. And so if you're struggling,

and even if you're not, to be in God's word, I would encourage you to get this little devotional

because it's specifically for moms. And there are several devotionals that are specifically

for homeschool moms. And I think you'll be really, really encouraged with the

passages and with some of the thoughts that I'm shared, that I've shared in this book

from all of my years of being a wife and a mom and a homeschooling mom, I'm just sharing a lot of

the things that the Lord showed me over the years. So I hope you'll go check that out.

Well, if you're a regular listener, you probably have noticed that I've taken a break from podcasting. Maybe you didn't notice because some of you were trying to catch up on the podcasts.

And that's what I was hoping is that everyone would have a chance to sort of catch up on the podcast.

And I did one with Dr. Dan Marcon, who's a family therapist, and he was on the podcast

and talked about the development stages of learning, of kids, kids' developmental stages of learning.

And it was really interesting and encouraging.

And he's going to be back on the podcast sometime in the next several weeks

talking about a couple different things.

We may talk about growth mindset versus a fixed mindset,

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