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Read-Aloud Revival ®

RAR #216: How to Teach from Rest

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

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

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The principles of Teaching from Rest apply no matter how old your kids are. The obstacles and challenges change, but the core stays the same.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My house is messy. The laundry is piling up in the living room. I don't know what I'm going to make for dinner. I just caught a child lying.

0:07.0

Light me completely like me and I and I caught them right or maybe another one was being so unkind to a sibling.

0:15.0

We have problems right we have like problems and then I'm like that's a problem.

0:21.0

The problems feel like problems. The fact that we have problems feel like problems.

0:27.0

So here's the thing. This is the teaching from rest principle that applies here.

0:32.0

Having problems isn't a problem. Having problems is just the work.

0:43.0

This is the Read-A-Loud Revival. The show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.

0:51.0

I'm your host Sarah McKenzie and what you just heard was a little tiny snippet from a recent circle with Sarah session.

1:02.0

Circle with Sarah is the premium coaching program for homeschooling moms inside RER premium.

1:08.0

Every month I lead our members through some ideas and some journaling and we get really clear on the work we're doing in our homeschools and why.

1:18.0

Today I wanted to share a little bit of that goodness with you.

1:21.0

What we do in circle with Sarah is probably our members favorite part of RER premium.

1:28.0

I mean we all come to RER premium thinking we want the family book clubs and to let our kids meet the authors of the books we're reading and to have access to those amazing writers on writing workshops and all of that is so so good but consistently.

1:43.0

When we ask our members what is the most impactful part of RER premium they almost always say circle with Sarah.

1:52.0

They tell us it transforms their homeschools that they love homeschooling again and find joy and purpose again.

1:58.0

They tell us they have clarity about the kind of homeschool they want and then they also now have the skills and the steps to create the homeschool life they want.

2:07.0

This fall in circle with Sarah we are deep diving into the principles inside my first book teaching from rest homeschoolers guide to unshakable peace.

2:17.0

And I wanted to give you a sense of what that's like because we have a fabulous coaching lineup through the end of the school year actually all the way through the end of 2023 our lineup is so good I'm very excited and I think if you like this episode you're not going to want to miss what's coming next in circle with Sarah.

2:36.0

So I've got a replay for you today from one of our recent coaching sessions in this one we focused on teaching from rest if you have kids in first to fourth grades.

2:46.0

Now if you've got kids who are older or younger stay with me because the principles of teaching from rest actually remain the same no matter how old your kids are.

2:55.0

It's just that the struggles that come up the obstacles and challenges those tend to change based on the dynamics of our family lives based on the ages of our kids.

3:05.0

So homeschooling kids who are about ages six through nine presents a different set of challenges than homeschooling teens for example.

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