YMB #114 How Perfectionism Can Sabotage Morning Time

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

So often we set ourselves up to fail when we have unrealistic expectations and expect a perfect Morning Time. Sometimes we don't even realize that perfectionism is the problem we are fighting. In this episode Pam breaks down what perfectionism can look like in your Morning Time and gives some tips on how to beat it so you can your kids can enjoy Morning Time together for years to come.

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0:00.0	I hate to be the one to break it to you. It's going to happen. You're never going to have a perfect
0:04.1	morning time. As you fail to meet that time after time after time, what you're going to end up doing
0:08.9	is getting disillusioned and discouraged and just giving up the idea of doing morning time altogether.
0:29.9	This is your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.
0:33.6	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 114 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barneyer,
0:41.6	your host, and I'm so happy that you're joining me here today. Well, today's episode of the podcast
0:46.2	is one of those a little bit different ones because I am going to be all by my lonesome.
0:52.0	And we're going to be talking about something that I really felt on my heart
0:56.2	that I needed to address when it comes to morning time. And so today's episode is all about
1:01.9	perfectionism and what perfectionism on the part of mom mostly can do our dad, if we have
1:10.3	dads out there doing morning time at what effect that
1:13.2	that can have on a morning time so we're going to talk about that a little bit how perfectionism
1:19.6	might manifest itself in morning time what does it look like and then what are some ways that
1:25.3	we can go about beating the tendency to try to have the absolutely
1:31.3	most perfect morning time? So we'll get on with that in just a second. But first, I wanted to
1:37.6	tell you about the brand new book that I have out with photographer and my good friend, Heather Tully. She's been on the
1:45.9	podcast a couple of times. The name of the book is called Gather, Exploring the Wonder, Wisdom,
1:51.6	and Worship of Learning at Home. Now, gathering with your children is exactly what we do when we do
1:58.0	a morning basket or we do morning time. And this book is so much fun because
2:02.2	Heather went into the homes of eight different families and took pictures of their gathering.
2:10.3	She took pictures of their morning time, their morning basket. My family was one of those families.
2:15.7	And then Heather's family, she has some photos of her family's gathering time, and then some other families as well.
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