Infusing Life into Your Homeschool
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are airing a favorite from the archives. When I started homeschooling in 1998, I did the only thing I knew how to do: I set up a “real” classroom in our and ordered a million dollars worth of workbooks. (At least it felt that way.) And we did okay … for a while. We were about six months into it when I began to notice that the “life” I had longed for was just not happening with the workbooks. In this replay, I’ll be sharing the discovery that changed the way I homeschooled.
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| 0:30.2 | Hey everybody, this is Heidi Saint John. Thanks for tuning in today to Off the Bench. Today |
| 0:34.8 | is Wednesday, May 19th. And today I'm going to encourage some brand new homeschoolers with |
| 0:40.0 | a couple of lessons I learned early on that really did bring life into our homeschool. |
| 0:45.4 | Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:55.8 | So thanks for tuning in today. We are busy, busy, busy here at the St. John House as my |
| 1:00.8 | husband is getting ready to take our family across the country to the FPEA conference in |
| 1:06.7 | Orlando. Looking forward to that. And I hope you guys are looking forward to it also. This |
| 1:11.7 | is a chance for you to get out and meet some new people to shop for curriculum for next |
| 1:17.2 | year. It's an opportunity for you to be in a place that feels free. And remember what |
| 1:23.0 | it's like to be free. So I hope you guys will come out to the FPEA conference. I will be |
| 1:28.3 | there starting Thursday, May 27th at the Rosen Schingel Creek in Orlando. You guys send |
| 1:35.5 | me awesome questions all the time. If you want to send questions to me, the way to do |
| 1:38.8 | it is to go to Heidi Saint John.com for it's Ash mailbox Monday. And I want to say |
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