Finding Yourself in Motherhood :: Amber O'Neal Johnston [Ep 310]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amber O’Neal describes herself as a homeschooling mama using Charlotte Mason principles in an atmosphere where “Charlotte Mason wears an afro.” She joins me to talk about how she unexpectedly found she loved homeschooling and working to help her kids love themselves and others.

“The Holy Spirit is the supreme educator and the Holy Spirit will speak directly and work directly with our children just as he does through us. And that was a total reframe for me because it gave me a lot of freedom and released a lot of pressure for me when I realized that I'm actually not the supreme educator, I am a guide and I'm going to come alongside my child and that my job is not to teach in the traditional sense of teaching, but more to act as a guide.”

Amber shares why she’s creating resources for her children and others to share books and history from people of color and the journey she’s been on with her children as she encourages them to embrace their skin color and cultural history.

And her resources and the Charlotte Mason principles aren’t just for homeschooling mamas. She has book lists of great things to read with your children to give them a more holistic view on black history, poetry and culture.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:10.7	I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside
0:15.5	you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:22.3	In this episode, number 310, I have the privilege of introducing you to Amber O'Neill, Johnston.
0:29.6	I came to this in a place where I was ready to kind of lay down my life for my children
0:34.7	and I am always and I was expecting though that I would be pouring out the entire time.
0:40.2	I mean, I'm going to be a homeschooling mom, I'm not going to have any free time and I'm
0:45.0	going to sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice and pour out for the children.
0:48.3	Great.
0:49.3	I was okay with that.
0:50.3	I signed up for that.
0:51.8	But what I found was actually that rather than losing myself in this process of bringing
0:59.3	this slow childhood of wonder to my children, I actually found myself.
1:04.2	And so as I was exposing my children to things that I didn't expect to get anything out
1:10.7	of, I found that I was getting everything out of it.
1:14.3	So example, I said I was raised in the air conditioning, well I believed that it was
1:19.0	good for my children to be in nature.
1:21.1	And so I started taking them on these long meandering walks and hikes in the woods and I
1:26.2	found out I love the woods.
1:28.9	They sing to me, you know, and I'm like wow, this is for me.
1:34.2	I just, I'm being so blessed by this.
1:38.4	Amber is a homeschooling mom of four using Charlotte Mason principles and in her home she
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