YMB #128 Why Morning Time?
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Morning Time is not something that is required by any homeschool method or governing body. Why then do homeschoolers find the practice beneficial to include in a homeschool day?
In this episode, Pam talks about five different reasons why a Morning Time practice is a worthy addition to your homeschool. She outlines the benefits of why you would want to devote time to doing this year after year.
Key Takeaways:
- Morning Time provides an efficient way to cover multiple subjects for multiple pupils.
- It sets the tone for the rest of the day and allows students to transition from playtime to school time.
- Morning Time is an excellent way for families to connect and create shared experiences.
- It encourages curiosity and discovery in children and reduces stress.
- It is an important part of a successful homeschool day.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again? |
| 0:08.4 | Do you want to build closer relationships? |
| 0:10.7 | Remove some of the stress around planning and enjoy learning with your children. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to your morning basket. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Pam Barnhill, a homeschool mom just like you, |
| 0:20.4 | and I'm going to show you the magic |
| 0:22.4 | and fulfillment that morning basket or morning time can bring to your homeschool. Grab your coffee or |
| 0:28.1 | tea and let's get started. So I'm sharing all of my deep, dark secrets with you on this episode |
| 0:36.0 | of the podcast. I'm a little bit of a social |
| 0:38.6 | media scroller. I tend to do this when I'm stressed out or tired at the end of the day or |
| 0:44.5 | stressed out or tired at the beginning of the day. I have a tendency to scroll. I'm more of a |
| 0:50.5 | social media consumer, though, and so I tend to lurk in the background and just read other people's comments. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm not a big commenter. |
| 0:58.2 | Recently, about a couple weeks ago, I saw that somebody had posted on social media that they had tried morning time before in their homeschool. |
| 1:05.8 | And it really seemed like just a bunch of busy work. |
| 1:14.7 | Oh, that one got me in the heart. My thought was no, no, no. I felt so sad for that mom. I mean, morning time. It's supposed to be joyful. And |
| 1:22.8 | in our home, it is the absolute opposite of what anyone would call busy work. And it made me feel |
| 1:32.1 | sad. And I'm thinking, why does it seem like busy work for some people? But for other people |
| 1:37.9 | like me, it's just not that at all. And I think in order to come to an understanding of why that might be, |
| 1:47.2 | we really have to think about the why we're doing morning time in the first place. |
| 1:52.7 | Because morning time is not on anyone's list of requirements. There's no state, out of the 50 |
| 1:59.8 | states in the union, no country in the world that |
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