RAR #263: Growing in Confidence as a Homeschool Mama with the RAR Team
Read-Aloud Revival ®
Sarah Mackenzie
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Join us for Shakespeare Summer!
In this episode, RAR Community Manager Kelsey Murphy and I sat down to tackle some of your listener questions.
We put our heads together to answer questions about loved ones who don’t support your choice to homeschool, curriculum overwhelm, reading aloud with older kids or a wide age range of ages, how to encourage your kids to read high quality literature, and more!
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How to make peace with your choice to homeschool even when loved ones misunderstand
- Ways to keep connecting with older kids through reading aloud even with busy schedules
- The importance of “fun” books in developing your child’s reading life
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Find the rest of the show notes at: readaloudrevival.com/growing-in-confidence
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are gearing up around here for a Shakespeare summer, and I want to invite you to join us. |
| 0:09.0 | There is nothing, absolutely nothing. |
| 0:12.4 | I would rather read aloud and enjoy with my kids than a play of Shakespeare's. |
| 0:17.3 | And I am bringing all of my joy for Shakespeare to RAR Premium this summer. |
| 0:22.5 | We're diving into a midsummer night's dream. |
| 0:25.5 | Enough of you have asked, Sarah, we know you love Shakespeare. |
| 0:28.4 | How on earth do you teach your kids to love Shakespeare, too? |
| 0:31.4 | And now I'm going to show you step by step. |
| 0:34.2 | Think of it as RAR Premium's relaxed and joyful book club style meets one of Shakespeare's |
| 0:41.1 | funniest comedies. Honestly, I think Shakespeare Summer is the best program we have ever created at |
| 0:47.8 | Read Aloud Revival. I know it's the most fun I've ever had getting it ready. Head to rarprimimcom or text the word Shakespeare to the number 33777 to learn more. |
| 1:25.7 | Thank you. Hey, hey, welcome to the Read Aloud Revival podcast. This is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids |
| 1:28.7 | through books. And it is now not just an audio podcast, but also a video. So if you're listening |
| 1:34.3 | to this on your podcast app, you can head over to read aloud revival.com slash video if you'd |
| 1:39.4 | like to watch it instead. Today we're going to tackle some questions that you all have sent in. |
| 1:45.0 | Great questions about reading aloud with a wide range of ages, how you make decisions in your homeschool, what to |
| 1:51.5 | do when you've got family members who are not excited about your homeschooling, some practical |
| 1:57.1 | time management questions, and things like, when do you choose fun books over higher quality |
| 2:04.2 | literature and all that good stuff and joining me to tackle those questions is read aloud |
| 2:08.7 | revivals community manager kelsey murphy kelsey i always love having you on the show thanks for joining me |
| 2:14.5 | thanks it's so fun to be back do you want to tell us a little bit about |
| 2:17.5 | yourself? Yes. So like you said, I'm the community manager here at RAR, so I get to help |
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