The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison and How His Mom is The Hero of His Story with Raymond Arroyo

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Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Thomas Alva Edison was thrown out of school and his mother was told he couldn’t learn. Deaf and behaving as if he had ADHD, he needed a mother who understood and advocated for him, and that’s exactly what Nancy Edison did. As mothers we have the privilege of setting our children on a path that follows their natural bent. What an impact Edison’s mother made as she allowed him to learn the way God made him to learn. Don’t miss this encouraging story!

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0:00.0	Well, hi, everybody. This is Heidi St. John coming to you live from the floor of the National
0:04.8	Religious Broadcasters Association right here in Orlando, Florida. The interview I'm about to air
0:09.8	was done with my friend Raymond Arroyo. Some of you guys might know him. He's a Fox News
0:14.8	contributor, a New York Times bestselling author. And I'm speaking to him today about a brand new
0:20.3	project that you are going to love. And it's part of his series that's going to be introducing
0:26.6	young people to some of the heroes of the country. And so today, you're going to be talking about
0:31.3	Thomas Alvett Edison. And the most important thing you're going to hear from Raymond today
0:36.8	is the influence that his mother found on his life. This is going to be a great conversation.
0:41.2	Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.
0:50.7	So you guys, I'm really thrilled to have New York Times bestselling author and Fox News contributor
0:55.8	Raymond Arroyo on the show. He's got a brand new book in a series you guys are going to love.
1:01.2	Welcome. I'm glad that you're here. Heidi, I'm delighted to be with you. And and particularly
1:06.4	because this first book in the Turnabout Tales series, it really is about the guy I consider the
1:14.2	patron saint of homeschooling. Yes. Thomas Alvett Edison, but the real hero of this book, even on the
1:19.7	cover in the background there is his mother is his mother. Come on. It's his mother. Yeah,
1:24.2	who's been kind of forgotten in this story. And I'll tell you how I discovered this and then why
1:28.8	I wanted to make this what I call a family read picture books. People crudely call them family
1:33.9	reads in my love. I love it. I love it. I wanted everybody to have access to it. But I read one of
1:38.4	these big Edison biographies, Heidi. And in the back, I always read the last chapter. Me too.
1:43.8	Yeah. Well, I went to the last chapter. It's a good habit. You know why you figure out if is the
1:49.4	Jews worth the squire. Yeah. Yeah. So in the back of it, there was an interview with Edison in his 80s
1:54.2	and he said, my mother was the making of me. She allowed me to follow my bent and at a particular time
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