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Read-Aloud Revival ®

RAR #150: Water Your Bamboo—How to Focus on the Process (not the outcome) in Your Homeschool

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Parenting, Teaching From Rest, How To, Reading, Read-aloud, Homeschool, Education, Kids & Family, Books

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I'm talking about why in homeschooling, you work and work and work... and you often can't always see the difference that slog is making.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast.

0:15.9

This is the podcast that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids,

0:20.8

three books.

0:28.8

Hello, everybody.

0:30.6

Sarah McKenzie here.

0:31.8

You've got episode 150 of the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast.

0:36.6

Glad you're here.

0:37.8

Today we're having a very important conversation about watering your bamboo.

0:43.6

We're going to talk actually about the importance of focusing on the process and not the outcome,

0:51.3

especially in our homeschools.

0:53.4

Now, if you don't homeschool, I think you can replace anytime you hear that word today

0:58.0

with the word parenting.

0:59.8

And I have a hunch you're going to find this just as relevant for you.

1:04.5

This is a whole episode on what to focus on.

1:07.8

How do we tell which measuring stick to use and where to throw our energy when we're working

1:12.4

with our kids?

1:13.4

It's very easy to put our attention on the outcome.

1:15.8

It's far more useful to put it on the process.

1:18.1

We're going to dig into that in just a minute.

1:20.4

Before we do, we're going to take a listener question and this week's question comes from

1:25.3

Lisa.

1:26.4

Hi Sarah.

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