RAR #250: Relaxed, Bookish, and Ordinary

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

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

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What if I told you that your homeschool could be relaxed, bookish, and ordinary? If you’re anything like me, that’s music to your ears.

Our kids thrive–and we do too–when our day-to-day homeschool is relaxed, bookish, and ordinary. In fact, that's what over 726 experienced homeschool moms told me were the three most important qualities.

Today, I’m sharing a recording from a session I did at a series of homeschool conferences earlier this year called “Relaxed, Bookish, and Ordinary”.

If you’re hoping that your homeschool can be any or all of those things, listen in–I bet you’re closer to it than you think.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How a relaxed approach impacts your child’s ability to learn and your peace as a homeschooler
The academic, personal, and relationship benefits of having a bookish homeschool
Why you don’t need to strive for an extraordinary homeschool to do it well

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0:00.0	I'm willing to bet the odds are quite good that you like the sound of a homeschool that's
0:05.2	relaxed and bookish and ordinary. So do I and in fact I think that our kids thrive and we do too as homeschool moms when we are
0:17.0	relaxed, bookish, and ordinary in our day-to-day homeschool lives.
0:21.0	Those three qualities, being relaxed relaxed being bookish and
0:24.0	being ordinary are the three qualities that over 726
0:28.8	experienced homes-school moms told me are the most important. Yeah, I'm serious. Let's talk about it.
0:42.3	Welcome to the Read Aoud Revival. This is the show that helps you make meaningful
0:47.8	and lasting connections with your kids through books. I'm your host Sarah Mackenzie. I'm a homeschooling mother of six, the
0:56.2	author of Teaching From Rest and the Read Aloud Family and several picture books, including
1:01.8	the upcoming picture book,
1:03.6	Dear Duck, Please Come, illustrated by Charles Santoso.
1:08.2	You just have to see the cover for this one.
1:11.9	It is to die for. Okay today I'm sharing a session I did at a
1:18.8	series of homeschool conferences earlier this year and the session was called relaxed, bookish, and ordinary.
1:26.0	If you're hoping that your homeschool can be any of those things or all of them,
1:30.0	keep listening.
1:31.0	I bet you're a lot closer to it than you think. Enjoy.
1:37.0	Today we're going to be talking about relaxed bookish and ordinary how to create a
1:47.3	homeschool you love. To start I want to read to you a little snippet from The Year of Miss Agnes.
1:58.2	Anybody in here have you read The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill?
2:02.2	Okay, a few of you. It is a middle grade novel set in
2:07.3	Alaska. Here's what you need to know. Backwoods of Alaska, small village,
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