You're listening to Skullay Sisters, episode number 26.

Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama,

who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches

of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting

it all done.

I'm your host, Brandy Bensel.

You can find me at Afterthoughts, that's my

main blog, and also teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable

phonics lessons. You can hear more from me on my other podcast, Aftercast. My co-hosts today are

Misty Winkler and Pam Barnhill.

Misty is a second-generation homeschooler with five kids and too many projects.

She writes about practical classical homeschooling at Simply Convivial

and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization.

Pam is an author, speaker, blogger at pambarnhill.com,

and you'll probably recognize her from her two popular podcasts, homeschool snapshots, and

your morning basket. This episode is sponsored by The Art of Homeschooling. It's the truth. The perfect plan will never be

perfectly executed. Home school days will go horribly wrong. Our energy will fizzle out and our attention

will wane. Our kids dawdle, complain, and bicker. It happens. To work our plan isn't to fix ourselves, our home, or our

children so that such things never happen. No, to work our plan is to have strategies for

handling life even when it goes off the rails, because that's when important lessons are

learned by all. Visit simplifiedorgan.com slash homeschool to download the free motivation prep sheet

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