make joy normal: Catholics in the new springtime

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1:09 - Welcome Kelly! 
2:37 - Strategy #1: Use Go-back Baskets 
5:43 - Strategy #2: Use loop planning for low stress chores 
11:41 - Strategy #3: Use blitz tidying as needed 
17:57 - Strategy #4: Commit to simple daily planning 
20:27 - Strategy #5: Use chore habits for less effort chores 
22:21 - Strategy #6: Commit to a weekly planning session 
24:40 - Strategy #7: Create a plan B chore routine
28:53 - How do you stay on-top of the basics? Meals, dishes? 
37:52 - How do you keep laundry flowing smoothly?

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I have three lovely ladies, Teresa, Leah and Margaret bring their incredible and insightful questions to the podcast.  Honestly, I think this is one of the best episodes we've done...these gals are so insightful with wanting to understand such fundamental aspects of home education and family life.  Thank you, ladies, you are fabulous!

7:50 - How do you define joy? 
22:01 - Reactive response vs. tender response 
27:11 - Why the focus on joy?
41:30 - Growing spiritually with our kids
44:42 - Offering correction in a loving and dignified way 
50:19 - Where did you come across the philosophy of gentle parenting? 
59:55 - Combating angst and building resilience 

Homeschooling with JOY workshop videos

Searching for and Maintaining Peace

Let Beauty Speak

Bishop Barron seven deadly sins

Sheila Kippley

Hold Onto Your Kids

Episode on resilience

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Catholic Heritage Curricula - Ever Ancient, Ever New

2:32 - What curriculum do you recommend for a preschooler?
5:10 - How natural learning began in our home
11:41 - What I noticed over time
14:44 - Curricula stressors and math example
19:13 - Be the master of the curriculum
19:53 - Creating a loving learning environment

Bonnie Landry Youtube page 

The Three R's by Ruth Beechick

Homeschooling Simplified book series

gearing, part three, avoiding the things that kill joy (blog post) 

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1:42 - Welcome Oceana and about TWU
7:55 - What is the process for the homeschool student? 
12:55 - Support, financial aid and campus living 
19:00 - Athletic programs at TWU
20:03 - Catholic formation and transfer process 
23:25 - Travel study opportunities  
25:25 - When can you start your application? 
30:29 - Website and social media
31:40 - Details for application process and living on campus

Trinity Western University
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homeschooling high school: a typical course of study, what does that even mean? (blog post) 

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The final component of "Revolution of Mercy" audio book version. 

00:47 - Chapter 7 - Be merciful and just
3:48 - Caring for our children's dignity
5:10 -  Forgiveness does not condone behaviour
11:19 - Chapter 8 - The Theology of the Body and dignity in relationships 
14:32 - The perfection of charity
17:31 - How we ought to respond to our children 
27:08 - Chapter 9 - Why not how
29:03 - Walking with our children 
31:49 - Acknowledging emotions and dealing with disappointment 
46:16 - What we are as families

Revolution of Mercy: how kindness changes everything

Discipline Without Distress by Judy Arnall

Man & Woman He Created Them (Theology of the Body) by Pope John Paul II

Breastfeeding & Catholic Motherhood by Sheila Kippley

it ain't a perfect world (blog post)

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00:44 - Carrot and Stick discipline
3:45 - Chapter 5 - Filling our children's tanks
 3:57 - Disinterested service
5:29 - Gentle discipleship
7:45 - Controlling our reactions
 10:36 - Striving for perfection
13:30 - Chapter 6 - Our tanks need filling too
15:49 - Seeking God in the Sacraments
20:11 - Prayer and fasting

Discipline Without Distress by Judy Arnall

Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacques Philippe

Seven Deadly Sins; Seven Lively Virtues by Fr. Robert Barron (YouTube)

fasting is good (blog post)

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I continue to read my book "Revolution of Mercy" with commentary along the way.

 Catholic Heritage Curricula - Ever Ancient, Ever New

2:31 - Chapter 3 - Agitation, discord and grace
5:07 - Living in a state of contradiction
7:28 - Ideals and expectations 
8:46 - Living in the moment
9:43 - Strong reactions and supernatural grace
13:20 - Chapter 4 - Relationships and transaction
14:28 - Rewards and consequences system
17:31 - God's love is not transactional

Hold On to Your Kids

attachment parenting and the sermon on the mount (blog post) 

#makejoynormal #homeschooling #grace #discipline #relationships #family #growth #prayer #faith #tenderness #attachment 

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I read my book "Revolution of Mercy" with commentary along the way.

00:50 - Understanding the temperament God gave you
2:34 -Forming a receptive heart
4:35 - Walking beside our children in discipleship
9:24 - Chapter 2 - What is a family and why is it so hard?
12:27 - An intimate community of life and love
14:11 - Heroic virtue and holiness
17:33 - Our children are more responsive to tenderness
22:37 - Why did God make me?

Revolution of Mercy: how kindness changes everything

The Temperament God Gave You by Art and Laraine Bennett

Familiaris Consortio, Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II

motherhood: an apprenticeship in self-denial (blog post) 

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I read my book "Revolution of Mercy" with commentary along the way.

2:11 - Chapter One - Receptivity
3:05 - Love is an act of the will
3:32 - Remembering is the hard part
6:02 - Managing children's behaviour or securing cooperation
7:19 - Rewards and consequences
8:38 - Emotional distance compromises guiding influence
9:16 - Covenant implies a relationship of trust
10:15 - Conversion is a life long process

Revolution of Mercy: how kindness changes everything 

dead and almost dead (blog post) 

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