my high schoolers in our gathering time and they stay there for the whole time and right now it's

about an hour and a half and so that pressure that they have to get the rest of their work done

but that even being said we've always done it i've always said if i have to let something go it's

not going to be our gathering time. This is foundational

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Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 112 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill,

your host, and I'm so happy you're joining me today. Well, today's topic is something that

moms know all too well.

How do you have faith in the messy middle that morning time is actually going to bear fruit?

We spend so much time doing these beautiful subjects when the world tells us that we really

should be focusing on things like STEM and moving forward in mathematics and working on writing

skills. And don't get me wrong, those are all very important things. But how do we know that this

music appreciation and reading these wonderful stories and looking at beautiful pieces of art

are actually going to make a difference in our kids.

And, you know, it's a real concern.

And so today I'm joined on the podcast by two moms, my good friend, Heather Tully,

and then a new friend, a friend of Heather's.

Her name is Brittany Bailey.

And so what we've tried to do is we've tried to approach this question from

multiple, what we've tried to do is approach this question from multiple perspectives, because

Heather has been doing morning time for quite a long time, Brittany, a much shorter time, and I

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