Hey everyone. Welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I am Dorenda Wilson,

and I am thankful that you're here today. Some of you might be new listeners and might know nothing about me.

So I always like to let people know that I'm married to Daryl and we've been married for 32 years.

We have eight kids, five boys and three girls.

And we have seven grandkids.

And we've been homeschooling for over 26 years.

Today I want to share something that's a little bit different than what I normally do.

I wanted to talk to you briefly about the four-hour school day, and here's why, because

most of the reviews that I've gotten have been just fantastic, fabulous reviews.

But there's always a few negative reviews because, you know, that's just the nature of publishing a book.

And the main, basically the only criticism that I've gotten is the fact that I don't tell people how to homeschool four hours a day

or less. So just a little reminder for those of you who maybe haven't or have read the book

and to those of you who haven't read the book, here's what I want to say.

First of all, I do share what homeschooling for four hours or less a day looked like for our

family. So I do give examples there of what it looked like for us. Here's the deal.

I can't tell you what it's going to look like for you. Because at the end of the day, what I'm

sharing are principles. What I'm sharing are the reasons why it doesn't have to take you more than four

hours a day. And when I say four hours a day, I'm talking four hours for my high schoolers.

My kindergartners, first graders, you know, we're talking to zero to 15 minutes or 30 minutes

depending on the kid. So it was sort of like this sliding

scale where it started out far, you know, next to nothing in the beginning and slowly built

from there. And that's one of the main premises of the book is just to take sort of an

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