Making our child’s education FUN & exciting (not just for homeschoolers!) – Episode 37

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This is a fun and (hopefully) inspiring episode. Whether you find yourself homeschooling or supporting your child's education while they attend another form of school, one thing is certain, moms play a vital role in their children's education. I want to inspire a love of learning in my kids that lasts a lifetime. So in this episode, we are going to talk about ways we can make their education fun AND exciting. Instead of chiding you to do more, I am going to encourage you to approach it all from a place of rest. Let's jump in! Listen to the Podcast: You can find all the links and notes for this episode below! Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. How to make school so much more fun and exciting 1. First thing to remember - you don't have to be a crafty Pinterest queen mom to accomplish this. 2. Ditch the Textbooks that aren't working Education is so much more than a textbook think outside the box with things like math. (Simple Charlotte Mason offers a really cool 1 year math program that teaches math through the kid running a fictional pet shop! So cool!!) They offer a pet store edition, book store edition, and sports store edition. Grades 3-6 Ideas: Ditch the science textbook and drive four hours and spend time at the tide pools. Ideas: Buy the kids some kites ad spend time learning about real world gravity and how things fly. Ideas: Ditch the astronomy textbook, let the kids stay up late, make some popcorn, and lay out under the stars identifying constellations. 3. Let each kid choose an area of interest This year I have a kid who wants to learn all about wood working. And another child who wants to learn how to fly a plane. 4. Other good skills are educational too Our cooking experiment A dad taking his kid along on his construction sites Our Christmas present to the 4 older boys this year: their own tool sets to build a playhouse with their dad Links & Resources: Our sponsor: Need help with your meal planning? Let PrepDish do it for you - they are giving you 2 weeks for FREE. That's 2 full meal plans for free. Sign up here. Our sponsor: Get $130 off plus free shipping at GreenChef.com/homemaking130 and use coupon code: homemaking130 at checkout! Join our FREE community here: FindingJoyCommunity.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend to deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.
0:12.6	Hey friends, welcome back to my podcast. I am really excited for today's talk, because this is something that I have been working on my whole
0:22.7	homeschool life, but especially in this last year, especially the last six months. And even
0:29.1	in the last couple of weeks, this is something I've really, really been trying to work on.
0:32.6	And I feel like I've had some really good kind of breakthrough moments when it comes to making school
0:38.9	more fun, having a well-rounded education for my kids, and we'll get into all of it. But I do want to
0:47.5	say that I am a homeschool mom, and that is the only experience I have with my kids. But if you have,
0:54.0	if your kids are in any other
0:55.2	sort of education, I think this episode will still be very profitable because we're talking,
1:00.4	I'm going to give some encouragement directly to homeschool moms with some textbook things.
1:05.6	However, a lot of what we're talking about absolutely can be implemented with your children, regardless
1:12.0	of your schooling.
1:13.3	We're going to talk about cooking.
1:14.6	There's some things like that.
1:15.7	Okay?
1:16.0	So I highly encourage everybody to listen to this if you have kids.
1:20.0	So we're going to jump into all of that.
1:23.5	But I did want to apologize.
1:25.1	Last week's episode, I had said we would be back for our family and culture series this week, which I was totally planning on.
1:31.3	But the topic I landed on for the fourth part has ended up being ones that I feel like I need more research time on.
1:38.1	And so I know what the topic is and I have it about half formed.
1:42.3	But as I was going through it, I decided this is actually
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