Hey everyone. I'm so glad you joined me today. This is the Dorinda Wilson podcast, and I just happen to be

Dorinda Wilson. I'm married to Dararyl. And we have eight kids.

Their ages are 17 to 30.

And we have eight grandkids.

And we've been homeschooling for over 26 years now.

I'm glad you decided to join me today.

We've got a lot of new listeners as well as a lot of new subscribers

to my blog and website. I'm very, very excited because I love this growing community of moms with

hearts that are just so passionate about your families and slowing down and living

meaningful lives with your children, not just teaching math and language arts and all of that,

which are all good things, but really walking alongside of your kids and discipling them

and instilling God's word and his ways in them. You know, homeschooling can be very challenging,

but it is so rewarding. And I've written a few books. A couple of them are on homeschooling. One is a devotional, and the other two are homeschooling books.

The most recent one is the four-hour school day, where I just share my experience of homeschooling are 25 kids. No, are eight kids. Some days it felt like 25.

But homeschooling are eight kids and doing it

in a simple, unhurried way. And, you know, now I'm on the other side of it and we'll be graduating

our last one next year. And I can tell you, you know, going against the culture, being counterculture in how we raise our kids

and educate them is absolutely wonderful. The results have been wonderful. Yes, it was a lot of hard work,

but oh my goodness, the results. We love our grown kids. We love spending time together.

We love the relationships that were built. And when I talk about our experience and just sort of what

my approach was and why in the four-hour school day, the subtitle is how you and your kids can thrive

in the homeschool life because you really,

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