YMB #15 Morning Time With Littles: A Conversation with Celeste Cruz
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Celeste Cruz is a homeschooling mother of eight who started to implement Morning Time in her home with a stack of picture books at the breakfast table back when her oldest two children were just 5 years old.
Now with several years of Morning Time under her belt, Celeste is practiced in art of juggling fussy babies, noisy toddlers, and preschoolers with fluctuating attention spans. She joins us on this episode of the podcast to discuss what Morning Time looks like when all the children in the family are preschool age and younger.
Celeste shares some great tips for how to create a Morning Time routine packed with thoughtful, high-quality elements while remaining flexible and accommodating of the littlest learners. She encourages us to find natural lulls in our daily routine during which we can nourish both our children and ourselves with beautiful poems, stories, and music.
Celeste's wisdom is inspiring but at the same time highly practical, making this an interview not to be missed. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 15 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I'm so happy that you're joining me here today. |
| 0:27.8 | Well, one of the questions we get asked a lot here at Your Morning Basket is about toddlers. |
| 0:33.7 | What to do with, you're trying to do morning time with all of those toddlers running about. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, most of the time we get asked that question when mom has a few older kids and she's |
| 0:44.4 | trying to get morning time done with those older kids and the toddlers might be causing a bit |
| 0:50.2 | of a toddlerish ruckus. |
| 0:52.6 | Well, sometimes, though, we get that question when the toddlers are |
| 0:57.3 | the only group of people in the room. What do you do for morning time when all of your children |
| 1:03.9 | are ages five and under? And we have a podcast episode devoted just to that today. |
| 1:11.0 | For those moms who are wanting to start morning time when they have very young children, |
| 1:17.6 | and that's it in the mix. |
| 1:19.3 | So we have a wonderful guest today. |
| 1:21.1 | Her name is Celeste Cruz, and she has been doing morning time with her kids for about five years now, and she started out when |
| 1:30.1 | her oldest two were just five years old. |
| 1:33.2 | Today, she's looking back for us and telling us all about what morning time was like when |
| 1:37.9 | it was just those little guys. |
| 1:40.0 | It's a great episode. |
| 1:41.3 | I think you're really going to enjoy it. |
| 1:43.1 | So let's get started. |
| 1:56.8 | Celeste Cruz is a homeschooling mother of eight young children. She identifies most strongly with the Charlotte Mason style of homeschooling and is a moderator for the Ambleside online forums. |
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