Hey moms. Welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I am Dorenda, and I am married to

Daryl. I have been married to him for 32, and we have eight kids, ages 17 to 31.

We have five boys and three girls.

We also have our ninth grandbaby on the way.

So we are pretty excited about that.

We've been homeschooling from the beginning.

And so we've been at this for a long time. Seven of our eight kids are

graduated. And it has been one of the single best decisions my husband and I ever made. We say that

all the time. We are loving the fruit of building a strong family life. One of the things that we really tried to

focus on as we were homeschooling our kids was that school would revolve around home life, not home life around school. So we really

wanted to take a more natural, unhurried approach to learning, especially in those

early years. And, you know, it's funny because my husband wasn't fully on board to start with.

He was hesitant, would probably be a better way to put it. He wasn't sure what that was going to look like and how that

was going to benefit our kids, but I had a strong gut feeling that I really didn't want to

rush our kids into schoolwork. I wanted them to be able to take, like I said, a natural,

more unhurried approach. And so he wasn't sure about it, but he was

very supportive. He said, go ahead, you know, listen to your gut, do what you feel led to do.

Now he is the biggest fan of unhurried homeschooling. He talks to parents all the time about why it's so important to slow down.

Well, fast forward several years into our homeschooling journey, about 20 years into our homeschooling

journey. And my husband suggested that I should write a book. And I thought he was kidding. I actually laughed

because I thought, I thought he was just joking around with me. And I said, what in the world would

I write a book on? He said, you should write a book on homeschooling. And I was like, what? Aren't there

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