The Durenda Wilson Podcast

By Durenda Wilson

Kids & Family

What's The Durenda Wilson Podcast about?

Durenda Wilson is the owner/host of her podcast and is a wife to one for 32 years, mom to eight, nana to 9. She has homeschooled all of her kids from the beginning. She loves to share simple, effective approaches to motherhood, homeschooling, and life in general. These tools are a result of many years walking with the Lord and finding freedom in letting His voice quiet all the others. (Durenda Wilson is a free podcast but donations are available at https://www.patreon.com/durendawilson)

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Right Brain Teaching Strate...

07.01.2022

If you've homeschooled for more than 5 seconds you know that every kid has their own learning style! It's what makes them unique! However, it can also become problematic if we are trying to teach them in a more conventional ...

The Durenda Wilson Podcast episodes:

07.01.2022 Right Brain Teaching Strategies That Help Our Kids Feel Smart (Podcast 327) If you've homeschooled for more than 5 seconds you know that every kid has their own learning style! It's what makes them unique! However, it can also become problematic if we are trying to teach them in a more conventional ...
06.27.2022 Identifying and Correcting Blocked Learning Gates in Your Child (Podcast 326) Many of us are homeschooling struggling learners. It can be easy to feel like we are not qualified, but I firmly believe that we are in fact the best facilitators of our kids' education. No one loves and cares for ...
06.24.2022 Ways to Engage Our Kids in the Word (Podcast 325) Dr. Kathy and I talked about the importance of being in the word with our kids in the last episode and today we want to talk about a fun way that you can engage your kids in the word and ...
06.20.2022 Drive-Thru Talking - An Effective Communication Tool (Podcast 324) I've shared a communication tool called Drive Thru Talking in passing during several podcast episodes, but I thought I'd make it the main topic of today's episode! Listen in for a short, practical episode! The Unhurried Homeschooler Unhurried Grace for ...
06.17.2022 Recognizing False Teachers (Podcast 323) Hold onto your hats! This is a good one! It’s no secret that there are many false teachers out there and the fallout from following them can be devastating to our families. Paul warns the Church repeatedly in the New ...
06.13.2022 When Your Homeschooled Teen Won’t Get Ready on Time in the Mornings (Podcast 322) What do we do when our homeschooled teens are ignoring our requests for timeliness? What is actually best for them and what does that look like? I've invited our 19 yr old daughter to tackle this topic! The Unhurried Homeschooler ...
06.10.2022 The Sovereignty of God and the Problem of Sin in Our World (Podcast 321) Today I want to talk about something that I refer to a lot in my podcasts: the sovereignty of God. This particular doctrine has been absolutely pivotal in helping me trust God both in the everyday and in times of ...
06.06.2022 What Does it Mean to Be ’Unhurried’ (Podcast 320) I talk about simplifying and slowing down a lot, but I’ve realized that some might envision something different than what I mean when I talk about being unhurried. The unhurried approach started with our kids’ education but morphed into being ...
06.03.2022 Who Is Informing Our View of Family? (Podcast 319) We all have ideas about family: its importance, its place in this world, what it should look like, etc. But upon further examination, we may come to realize that our perspective isn’t actually biblical. Why do we have children? Why ...
05.30.2022 The Importance of Being in the Word with Your Family (Podcast 318) We all know it's important to be in the word with our kids, but sometimes things get in the way, and/or we get distracted. Today my sweet friend, speaker, and author Dr. Kathy Koch is joining us today to talk ...
05.27.2022 We Can’t Serve Two Masters (Podcast 317) With so many distractions we can easily find ourselves oriented away from God and toward things that cannot satisfy. Jesus didn't mince words when He said that we cannot serve two masters because we will always eventually love the one ...
05.23.2022 Planning Your Homeschool with the End in Mind (Podcast 316) Many of us are thinking about the next school year and trying to get a jump on planning (unless you’re like me and wait until the last minute)! Today my friend Sara (a veteran homeschooling mom) and I are talking ...
05.20.2022 Considering Your Kids’ Personalities in Your Approach (Podcast 315) One of the most helpful things we did along the way was to increase our knowledge and awareness of our kids’ personalities so we could better approach both parenting and homeschooling. Simply having a bit of a picture of how ...
05.16.2022 Finishing the School Year Well (Podcast 314) It’s that time of year when the homeschool finish line is in sight! This can bring a multitude of emotions including panic because it may look as though we can’t finish all we set out to do. Today my friend ...
05.13.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - Sibling Relationships (Podcast 313) (Don’t miss the “postscript” after the prayer at the end!) This is another episode of Simple, Unhurried Word of God. These episodes were created to give you some time to close your eyes and meditate on God’s word. I encourage ...
05.09.2022 Our Family’s Simple Routine (Podcast 312) As I’ve encouraged you all to simplify and slow down in your family life and homeschooling, many of you have asked what our family’s routine actually looked like. I have shared this routine off and on in other episodes, but ...
05.06.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - God; The Good Shepherd This is another episode in my series that focuses on meditating on God's word! You are invited to take a pause, close your eyes and listen as I read scripture slowly. I would encourage you to use this with your ...
05.02.2022 Let’s Talk a Little Bit More About Writing (Podcast 310) After last week’s podcast on writing, I of course thought of a couple more simple ideas I wanted to share along with some resources! Resources mentioned in the podcast: The Simply Unhurried Community Homeschooling Today homeschooliowa.org Brave Writer Books: The ...
04.29.2022 Stewarding Our Time and Energy (Podcast 309) Time is a gift from God and how we spend our time matters. It matters to God and since it matters to Him, it should matter to us. There are countless podcasts, books, and media on how to manage our ...
04.25.2022 Let’s Talk About Writing (Podcast 308) Most homeschooling parents find writing to be one of the more challenging subjects to teach their children. In our over 26 years of homeschooling, our go-to approach for writing was very simple and straightforward. I always encourage moms to listen ...
04.22.2022 Soul Weariness (Podcast 307) Today I’m talking about “soul weariness”. It’s a term I recently heard being used to describe something I couldn’t describe before, but have felt to the very core of my being. Maybe you can relate. We all have things that ...
04.18.2022 Discipling Our Children Using Traditional Methods (Podcast 306) Newer isn’t always better. I’ve come to appreciate a more traditional approach to worship for many reasons, but I also love using some of the more traditional methods to disciple my kids that lend themselves to the simple, unhurried lifestyle. ...
04.15.2022 Simple Ways to Sweeten Your Marriage (Podcast 305) When in the thick of homeschooling and raising kids, it can be easy to forget to keep investing well into our marriages, but one of the best gifts we can give our kids is a strong, healthy marriage! Today I'm ...
04.11.2022 When Your Child Doesn’t Want to be Homeschooled (Podcast 304) Do you have a child who is saying that they don’t want to be homeschooled? Whether you are homeschooling or considering it and this is happening at your house, find encouragement and some practical suggestions in today’s episode! Homeschool Iowa ...
04.08.2022 What About Apprenticeships - Part 2 (Podcast 303) College is NOT the only path to success. In fact, I believe it's becoming more and more irrelevant. The job market is and will be very fluid and constantly changing at unprecedented rates so our kids will need to be ...
04.04.2022 What About Apprenticeships - Part 1 (Podcast 302) College is NOT the only path to success. In fact, I believe it's becoming more and more irrelevant. The job market is and will be very fluid and constantly changing at unprecedented rates so our kids will need to be ...
04.01.2022 Homeschooling Kids with Dyslexia - Pt. 2 (Podcast 301) My friend Marianne Sunderland is joining me again today (part 2) to talk about the freedom you have to give your kids with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences a meaningful education! Marianne is a 25-year veteran mom of 8 ...
03.28.2022 Homeschooling Kids with Dyslexia - Pt. 1 (Podcast 300) My friend Marianne Sunderland is joining me today to talk about the freedom you have to give your kids with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences a meaningful education! Marianne is a 25-year veteran mom of 8 kids, 7 of ...
03.25.2022 Perfectionism (Podcast 299) Perfectionism involves putting pressure on ourselves to meet impossibly high standards, thinking that what we do is never good enough. This is something I have dealt with my whole life and I know that other moms struggle with it as ...
03.21.2022 Let’s Talk About Reading! (Podcast 298) Reading is an important skill, but does every kid have to love reading? Does it matter what age a child learns to read? Today I'm sharing some of my own homeschooling experiences along with some facts about reading that you ...
03.18.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - God’s Steadfast Loving Kindness (Podcast 297) This is another episode in a series that I’ve been doing that you can use as a tool to help you and your family to meditate on God’s word. You can listen as soon as you get up, before bed, ...
03.14.2022 When Kids Lie (Podcast 296) Is your child struggling with lying, but you aren’t sure how to address it from a heart-oriented, biblical perspective? Then we’re glad you’re joining us today as Ginger Hubbard talks about why children lie, what God’s Word says about lying, ...
03.11.2022 Unhurried Homeschooling - Why We Need to Slow Down! (Podcast 295) In a world that is moving at warp speed, it’s easy to forget that kids are still kids. Their needs haven’t changed: they need time to explore and experiment with the real world around them, to absorb life through all ...
03.07.2022 When Kids Whine (Podcast 294) Is your child struggling with whining, but you aren’t sure how to address it? Then we’re glad you’re joining us today as Ginger Hubbard talks about how parents can address whining from a heart-oriented, biblical perspective and teach their children ...
03.04.2022 Trials and Afflictions (Podcast 293) One thing we can be sure of is that we will walk through trials. The question is how will we walk through them? So much of that is determined by what we believe about trials. Do trials serve a purpose ...
02.28.2022 Practical Discipline (Podcast 292) Family life is a spiritual calling and involves spiritual warfare and often that warfare simply involves being faithful to our duties each day without wavering. Discipline is one of those very important parental duties and requires discernment, fortitude, and perseverance ...
02.25.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - Complaining/Thankfulness (Podcast 291) This is another episode in a series that I’ve been doing where I share a bit of truth and the simple, unhurried word of God. The purpose is to give you a tool that helps you and your family to ...
02.21.2022 Let’s Talk About Discipline! (Podcast 290) Today we're going to be talking about disciplining our kids! I’ll be talking about what biblical discipline is, why it's so important, and I'll be addressing the issue of mom-guilt. Next week, I’ll be talking about practical parenting in hopes ...
02.18.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - God’s Goodness (Podcast 289) Welcome to another episode of the Durenda W podcast. This episode is one in a series that I’m doing to help you and your family get to know God’s word and learn to meditate on it. A mom suggested that ...
02.14.2022 Taming the ’Tude in Your Kids (Podcast 288) I frequently get questions from moms and recently I received an email with some concerns a mom had about her 9-year-old son who is giving her and her husband a lot of grief. So today I’m going to dive into ...
02.11.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - God’s Sovereignty (Podcast 287) Last week I tried something a little new. I did an episode that included me reading the word of God slowly and quietly. The purpose of this was to encourage you and your family to slow down and get to ...
02.07.2022 Let’s Talk About Growing Character! (Podcast 286) A few episodes ago I started the conversation about growing character in our kids. I shared how we as moms have a responsibility to encourage our kids to grow in character by creating an environment that will foster that. (Here ...
02.04.2022 Simple, Unhurried Word of God - Psalm 1 (Podcast 285) Every mom struggles with anxiety to one degree or another. There are countless resources we can turn to and some of them can be useful tools that God gives to help us. However, Proverbs 3:7, 8 warns us to not ...
02.01.2022 Dealing with a Pessimistic Ungrateful Child (Podcast 276) Sometimes our kids say things that feel like a punch in the gut and kick our fear/guilt response into high gear. The reality is that there could be a serious character issue that needs to be dealt with in them ...
01.31.2022 Cultivating Contentment as an Unmarried Woman (Podcast 284) (I encourage you to grab your teen or graduated daughters to listen in!) This is the second episode that we are talking about that season when our daughters have graduated, but aren't yet married. Johanna, our 19-year-old, graduated in 2019 ...
01.28.2022 Encouraging Contentment in Our Unmarried Daughters (Podcast 283) (I encourage you to grab your teen or graduated daughters to listen in!) In this episode and the next, I'll be veering a bit off of my usual topics to talk about that season when our daughters have graduated, but ...
01.25.2022 Creating a Healthy Environment for Character Growth (Podcast 282) Lately, I’ve been sharing a lot about the importance of fully engaging in our roles as parents. I wanted to talk about character building today, but I realized that before I do that, it’s really important to understand that we ...
01.21.2022 Raising Warriors (Podcast 281) Now more than ever parents are seeing the need to raise strong children. As believers, we don’t just want our children to be strong in themselves, but strong in the Lord so that they can thrive in spite of what ...
01.17.2022 Let’s Talk About Testing (Podcast 280) I periodically get questions about testing. Many moms want to know if I tested my kids and if I think it’s important or not. Last week I talked about how math is a tool. Testing is also a tool and ...
01.14.2022 A Call Home - The Biblical Importance of Family (Podcast 279) Today I want to talk about just how crucial our roles at home really are. All throughout scripture, God references the family in countless ways because the family is what bears His image to the world. I’ve said over and ...

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