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

I'm your host Sarah McKenzie, homeschooling mama of six, and author of The Read-A-Loud

Family and Teaching from Rest.

As parents were overwhelmed with a lot to do, it feels like every child needs something

different.

The good news is you are the best person to help your kids learn and grow, and home is

the best place to fall in love with books.

This podcast has been downloaded 7 million times in over 160 countries, so if you want to

nurture warm relationships while also raising kids who love to read your in-good company,

we'll help your kids fall in love with books, and we'll help you fall in love with homeschooling.

Let's get started.

Well hello my dears, I'm so happy to be back with you today, Happy 2022.

It's January.

I don't know, it feels very January to me.

I'm not sure that's really a compliment to the month of January, but I find jumping

back into a routine after the holidays, the beginning of a new year, back into homeschooling,

back into all that day to day, laundry and meals and math and I don't know, it's really

hard in January.

I used to think there was something wrong with me.

Why was January so hard to get back into the homeschooling flow, but I've been around

homeschoolers for a while now and I just know it's really normal.

It's a hard time, January is a hard time to jump back into things where a lot of our

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