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Challenges, community, criticism, conflicting sentiments. 

4:13 - Losing yourself in motherhood 
18:55 - Being clear with ourselves about what we want in life
22:25 - I'm a full-time mom but I prefer to be called a matriarch
24:16 - The transformation that motherhood has on us
30:48 - Does it really get easier the more kids you have? 
43:56 - Taking some time away to remember who we are

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Obedience.  Most of our day as parents is trying to get our kids to do stuff.  Vast amounts of parental energy is used to gain our children’s compliance.  What’s reasonable to ask of our kids? What should we expect?

5:15 - Obedience before the age of reason 
12:22 - Modeling virtue in our submission to the will of God 
16:36 - The need for guidance and formation 
18:02 - Proactive parenting and emotional maturity 
30:53 - Managing our expectations 
32:38 - What if my child won't obey?
37:46 - Responding to aggression
39:35 - Corporal punishment and fear driven compliance 
41:04 - Having conversations and importance of formation

Get off your butt parenting

What makes a child easy to parent?  Gordon Neufeld

Hippie Housewife, the rod verses

securing cooperation without sacrificing kindness (blog post)

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This week we chat about the socialization question of homeschooling, often the forefront issue on parents minds as they consider homeschooling.  Our own experience shapes our ideas about what socializing is.  We examine that idea, as well as some thoughts on how to create community and social opportunities.  

2:32 - How have you brought friends to your kids' lives and with what activities? 
7:50 - Ideas for building community 
13:20 - Pray about it  
26:34 - Have your kids ever complained about losing opportunities? 
33:07 - Did you find it difficult to find other moms that you click with?

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Hey!  I read my little book "Dictation" with some commentary along the way.  Here is the link to resources I recommend, just scroll down to the language/dictation segment.  

https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/resources-for-homeschool-workshop?rq=resources

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Christina and I cover a lot of territory this week.  We start off with what do you do when you find yourself comparing yourself to others women and other families.  Then we focus on how we keep school short and efficient.  We end up in mental health weaving through all that - helping ourselves be resilient and calming anxiety.  

1:34 -The temptation to compare yourself to other families
10:00 - Limiting our use of devices 
14:20 - Planning our day - focusing on what's essential
25:16 - Building relationships with our children during discipline / instruction 
27:15 - The tyranny of the urgent (see PDF)
29:18 - Building resilience in ourselves 
35:16 - Tools for letting go of the things we cannot change 
36:47 - Guiding our children through their anxiety 
 41:48 - Tips for calming our own anxiety

Tyranny of the urgent infographic
pdfs

Building resilience
https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/building-resilience-cultivating-joy?rq=building%20resilience

Yes brain
https://www.amazon.ca/Yes-Brain-Cultivate-Curiosity-Resilience/dp/039959468X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&

Parenting from the inside out
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=parenting+from+the+inside+out&crid=3P01WY6R4YQ9K&sprefix=parenting+from+the+inside%2Caps%2C228&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_24

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I interview John Paul Meenan, professor at Seat of Wisdom College in Ontario.  From a Catholic perspective, we explore the idea of Grace.  What is grace, responding to grace, how to increase out capacity for grace.  What is the role of grace in our lives, and what does that mean for parents.  He is fluent in St. Thomas, and we benefit as parents from the insight he brings alive.  
 
3:27 -The definition of grace and how to grow in grace
19:41 - Are harder sacrifices more meritorious?
23:50 - Concrete examples for parents how to access grace
34:32 - What if we've messed up? How can we access grace at this point? 
44:12 - Having a plan of life 
48:07 - Grace builds on nature

https://catholicinsight.com

https://www.seatofwisdom.ca

The Diary of a Country Priest

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HT

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Welcome to part two of my workshop, Homeschooling with JOY. 

At the beginning of COVID, I made a video workshop that I have free, so that people could be supported through a difficult time.  I uploaded it to YouTube, and it will stay there for time immemorial.  I decided it would be good as an audio option as well, so for the next few  weeks, I’ll be putting the four segments up podcast episodes.  So that you don't have to fish around for them, I'll put all four episodes in the resources page of my website HERE as they go live,  

All resources mentioned in the video are available here:

https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/resources-for-homeschool-workshop?rq=resources
cover the gamut of philosophy of home education to what we do all day, dealing with littles, developing a high school transcript and how to help yourself be kind.  

If you have listened to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll have a picture of what I’m all about.  This workshop in four segments is a comprehensive look at this life and how we lived and educated.  

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