YMB #30 Tension in Morning Time: A Conversation with Jennifer Dow

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

You know you love Morning Time but there is something that pulls at you each time you sit down to do it -- especially if your time is short or your day hasn't gone exactly according to plan. We are often faced with the temptation to skip the true, good, and beautiful so we can get on with the "real" learning -- the math, handwriting, and science. But why?

Join Jennifer Dow and me as we talk about this tension that so many of us feel. In this conversation we discuss that and the meaning of real education.

For show notes and episode downloads, visit https://pambarnhill.com/ymb30.

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0:00.0	This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your
0:11.4	homeschool day.
0:17.9	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 30 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I'm so happy that you are joining me here today.
0:27.7	Well, you might have noticed that the name of this episode is tension in morning time. And no, we're not really talking about the tension from your kids squabbling with each other,
0:37.8	though if your morning time is anything like mine, it happens quite a bit.
0:42.0	Instead, we're actually talking about the tension that arises within ourselves as homeschooling
0:47.8	mothers.
0:48.5	Many of us were brought up in the public school system with a more utilitarian view of education. And I know for myself and other moms
0:56.7	I've spoken with, sometimes there is a tension between doing morning time and these other subjects
1:02.9	that we feel we need to be checking off our list each day. And so our guest today is Jennifer Dow,
1:09.0	and she is from the Expanding Wisdom blog, and she writes a lot about classical education.
1:14.4	And I thought she was a great person to speak to us about the learning that we do in morning time versus or even in addition to or how it's different from the learning we do at other times a day to maybe help relieve
1:29.3	some of this tension that we might be feeling within ourselves about this different
1:35.0	kind of learning or at least to discuss it a little bit and see maybe why it's there.
1:40.0	So I think you're going to really enjoy this conversation and we'll get on with it right after
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