Welcome to this week's podcast. Today I'm going to be talking about hormones. We're going to be talking a little bit

about our own hormones, but mostly about how to deal with hormones in our kids.

Before I do that, I just want to let you know that this podcast is brought to you by my book,

The Unhurried Homestooler. You can find this on Amazon. It is a simple, mercifully short book on

homeschooling. I also have another book called Unhurried Grace for a mom's heart. It is a 31-day

devotional written just for moms. So you can check that out on Amazon as well. Maybe you don't

already know me, but I am married to Darrell. We will be married 30 years this September. We have

eight kids ages 14 to 27. We've been homeschooling

for about 24 years, so basically from the beginning. And one of my favorite things to do

is just to encourage moms. And I ask them to let me know what kind of topics they want to hear

about. Well, it turns out that hormones

is one of those topics. So today I want to be talking about what do we do with these hormones?

You know, we see them start to kind of come on the horizon, sometimes in those tween years. It really,

really depends on the kid. I've had kids who have not really shown hormonal fluctuations till

later on, especially the boys. But my goodness, when they start happening, it can be a little

disconcerting. Sometimes we think, who are you? And what did you do

with that great kid of mine? I always tell people, about the time our kids got super helpful and,

you know, we're doing their chores consistently and we're very capable. It was about the time they

lost their brains. Hormones kicked in, and I don't know if you've noticed, but they forget all the time.

And sometimes it can be really challenging to know whether they're just kind of taken us for a ride

and using forgetting as an excuse or if they're legitimately struggling with forgetting things.

Now, one thing that you can do to sort of find that out is to think about what, are there any

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