This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your

homeschool day.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 39 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill,

your host, and I am so happy you are joining me here today. Well, you guys have heard me interview Cindy

Rollins. I often call her the mama of morning time. And you've also heard me interview Jennifer McIntosh, who was doing her

own morning time at the same time that Cindy was kind of independently. Those two ladies were in the

southeast of our country, but way on the west coast. At the very same time, there was another lady

who was starting her own kind of independent

practice of morning time, and that was Kendra Fletcher. Long before the days of blogs and things of that,

she started doing what she called Circle Time in her home with her eight children. There weren't

eight of them then, but they eventually came along.

And so when you have a practice that is as great and wonderful as Circle Time or Morning Time,

people just start doing it independently everywhere. We've heard that from moms. We've been doing

this for years and never knew it had a name. Kendra was actually one of the very first people to

write about the practice in a book she called Circle Time, Plan the Best Part of Your Day.

And so we are honored to have Kendra Fletcher joining us here on the podcast. I have to tell you,

I read that book many years ago myself. And she is going to talk to us all about the history of circle time in her family.

And we're so excited that she's joining us.

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