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

homeschool day.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 75 and a new season of the Your Morning Basket podcast.

I am so happy that you're joining me here today.

I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and it's great to be back after our little summer hiatus.

So this week on the podcast, we are joined by Ria Berg. Now, Ria is a homeschooling mom of six,

and she is also the owner of Beautiful Feet books. Ria loves literature. She loves literature.

She loves books, and she loves teaching history through story. And that's what we're

going to be talking about on today's episode of the podcast. We talk a little bit about where this

passion for children's books came from for Ria and also some of the challenges that homeschool

families face when they're teaching history and about how we can

use story and why we would want to use story to teach history in our homeschools.

It's a fascinating conversation and I hope you enjoy it right after this word from our sponsor.

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