Today I'm chatting with Sarah McKinsey about narration when you have special challenges.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Today we have a special guest, Sarah McKinsey is joining us.

Sarah, I'm so glad you were able to stop by.

I am just delighted to be here. Thanks so much for having me over.

Oh, happy. It's our pleasure. And when we were talking earlier, we were talking about

narration and how each of us has a special challenge with at least one child, if not more

than one, and how we've had to tweak narration, tweak

the method. But we wanted to make sure our tweaking was based on Charlotte's principles.

So before we dive into what we did, let's talk about what we were dealing with,

the special challenges that we have.

Now, a lot of our audience knows that my youngest

has autism and pervasive developmental delays.

And so that's my challenge.

Talk about your challenge.

So we've had a few, the biggest one, I think,

that has impacted narration in our homeschool is a

diagnosed anxiety disorder. And so that, well, before I get into how that looked, I guess,

anxiety. And that's been showed up in more than one of our children, but that seemed to be the

one that impacted narration specifically most.

That's where I saw maybe what we're doing or what I expected us to be able to do isn't going to quite work.

And then another one is dyslexia because we've had several children who are dyslexic as well.

Both of those would be big challenges.

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