Hey everyone. Welcome to the Derinda Wilson podcast. I'm Dorinda Wilson, wife to one, mom to eight,

Nana to how many, seven? And a-year veteran homeschooling mom. There you have it. Folks, we're off to a

great start. Well, today I'm going to be talking about tips for retraining the kid who thinks he's in

charge. Anybody got that problem going on right now? You know, sometimes after the holidays, I don't know, something happens.

A flip gets switched.

There we go again.

A switch gets flipped.

And our kids all of a sudden kind of spoiled, maybe, kind of out of sorts.

And it's time to sort of rein things back in again right and typically there's

at least one kid who kind of makes his way out to the front of the line at front of the group that

just thinks that he's in charge now so we're going to talk about that today if you are a new listener

you may not have heard about my books though so I'm going to just mention those really quickly. The Unhurried Homestchooler, a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling. Unhurried Grace for a mom's heart, a devotional that I wrote specifically for homeschool moms. That might be a good one for the new year because sometimes, you know, throughout the

holiday season, we get busy and sometimes we're not spending time in the word and we feel out of

rhythm and this devotional can help you get back into that rhythm. And then lastly, the four-hour

school day, how you and your kids can thrive in the homeschool life. That is my most recent book, and all three of

those books can be found on Amazon. They can be found on my website, Duranda Wilson.com, and the four-hour

school day can be found at pretty much any of your favorite booksellers because it was not

self-published. Zondervand published it. So there you go. All right. So let's talk about tips for

retraining the kid who thinks he's in charge. I had a mom asked me recently about her 10-year-old

son, who's a sweet kid, but gives her grief when it comes to schoolwork, chores, et cetera,

and you might be finding yourself

there soon as you try to get back into the swing of a normal schedule. So her son wants to be

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