Hey everyone. Welcome to the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I'm Dorenda Wilson, wife to one, mom to eight,

Nana to nine, and 26-year veteran homeschooling mom. I'm also the author of the Unhurried homeschooler, a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling,

Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart, which is a devotional written specifically for homeschooling

moms, and the four-hour school day, how you and your kids can thrive in the homeschool life.

You also know that I often like to share just great resources.

And one of my favorite resources is homeschooling Today magazine.

So I'd love for you just to listen in for a minute to find out a little bit more about this great resource.

Many of us are homeschooling, struggling learners.

It can be easy to feel like we're not qualified.

But I firmly believe that we are, in fact,

the best facilitators of our kids' education.

No one loves and cares for our kids like we do, and no one is more

invested in their future. I always say God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called,

because he has called us to this. He will equip us. I also think that sometimes we make things more difficult than we need to.

I believe that God can give us simple, effective strategies and resources that allow us to relax and

enjoy our kids, whether they're struggling learners or not. One of the things I love to do on the

podcast, I mentioned this before, is to connect

moms with great resources. So I am excited about our guests today. We're going to be talking

about identifying and correcting blocked learning gates in your child. But the person that I've

invited on to share is Diane Kraft. Some of you may know who she is,

but she's devoted to making learning easier for kids of all ages. She is the president of her

consulting firm Child Diagnostics Incorporated in Denver and is considered the leader in alternative

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