YMB #6 Jennifer Mackintosh: A Considered Booklist

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Mackintosh has been practicing Morning Time in her home since her oldest, now a homeschool graduate was a 4th grader. At her blog Wildflowers & Marbles, she has written extensively about how she creates her Morning Time plan and about how she develops thoughtful book lists for read-alouds.

She joins us on this episode of the podcast to tell us a little more about choosing those great books, but she doesn't stop there. She also divulges some of her best time-tested tricks for wrangling energetic toddlers while reading aloud, as well as some helpful advice for continuing to draw teens into the Morning Time conversation.

Jen shares about how Morning Time has been a place for her children to develop and practice important habits like attentiveness and describes the fruit she has seen as those habits have been shared and passed down from older children to younger children in a natural, organic way.

Perhaps most importantly, Jen urges us moms to be attentive ourselves during Morning Time and to learn alongside our children as we wonder at the natural world, at beautiful poetry, and at living books together.

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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.
0:17.8	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode six of the Your Morning Basket podcast.
0:22.8	I hope you guys are doing great and I thank you so much for joining me today.
0:27.2	I am Pam Barnhill, your host and this is going to be a fun show.
0:32.6	I am talking to Jen McIntosh from the blog Wildflowers and Marbles.
0:38.8	Jen is a blogger that I've read for a very long time.
0:42.0	She's done Morning Basket for about 10 years now, and yes, she really does call it that.
0:47.9	And she always puts together really fabulous morning basket plans and really fabulous book lists. And so that's what I'm talking to
0:57.0	Jen a little bit about today. Now, we also get into some of the ins and outs of doing morning
1:01.9	time with a wide age range of kids and what do you do about teens who might be a little reluctant
1:08.6	to do morning time. And she has some really awesome advice.
1:11.9	Now, before we get into the interview, I wanted to let you guys know that I actually have a
1:17.3	second podcast that I do. Your Morning Basket is my second podcast. And then I started with the
1:24.0	homeschool Snapshots podcast. And that one I've been doing a little bit longer. And if you
1:29.3	like interviews with homeschooling moms like Jen, the one we have on today, you will really enjoy
1:34.5	the homeschool snapshots podcast. So I just wanted to make you aware of that. In that podcast, I
1:39.8	interview homeschooling moms every other week. And there are a lot of fun interviews and you can find that
1:45.9	one in Stitcher or on iTunes as well. Let's get on with this homeschooling mom interview and enjoy
1:53.0	the conversation with Jen McIntosh. Jen McIntosh is a homeschooling mom of five children, ranging in age from 18 down to two.
2:09.2	Her family follows the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling, rich in books, nature, and their Catholic faith.
2:15.8	Her blog, Wildflowers and Marbles, has been an inspiration
2:19.7	to many, including me, for the past eight years. Her learning space, planning posts, and her
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