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Homeschooling IV
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 032. This is the final episode in the homeschooling series. Whether or not you are a homeschooling parent, I hope that it provides you with some encouragement. You can engage your children and help them to learn and to succeed. In fact, giving your child a hunger for knowledge…
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Homeschooling III
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 031. Our homeschooling series continues as we answer more homeschooling questions such as “How do I homeschool boys?” and “What about curriculum?” There are many different ways to homeschool. This series gives you an idea of not only how we homeschool, but how we continue to enjoy homeschooling. Tune…
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Homeschooling II
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 030. Homeschooling at the Jonas house takes place all the time. Somebody is always learning something and the older children often help the younger children. This is part two in our homeschooling series. Jim and I finish our initial discussion and then start answering some of the questions we…
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Homeschooling I
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 029. The Jonas children have been homeschooled their entire lives. We start homeschooling them when they are babies because we consider all of life to be a part of their homeschool education. Jim and I sat down and talked about homeschooling for over 2 hours. I have edited our…
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How To Organize A Control Journal
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Episode 028 Keeping a family of ten and Goat Milk Stuff running smoothly requires a lot of organization. One of the things that I rely upon to help keep me organized is my Central Notebook or Control Journal. It contains everything I need in a central location. During this podcast episode,…
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Family Vacation
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 027. Taking a family vacation with eight children may not be the easiest thing to do, but it is worth every minute of effort and all the expense. We believe getting away from home and your normal routine really strengthens family bonds and gives Mom and Dad a respite…
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Train Your Children Then Trust Them
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Be Protective, But Not Over-Protective
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 025. We are protective of our children while they are still young and need us to protect them. As they mature they are given the opportunity to test themselves and their beliefs while still under the protection of our household. We try very hard to be protective, but not…
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No Such Thing As a Typical Day
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 024. Do you finish your “typical” day feeling like you accomplished nothing? Or do you typically go to sleep feeling tired, but believing you had a good day? For me, I enjoy wrapping up the day knowing that I worked hard, taught my children, enjoyed my family, and accomplished…
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How Important Is Privacy
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 023. Several months ago, Brett got her own room. Since then we’ve been talking a lot about the subject of privacy because I don’t want her to over-value privacy at the expense of relationships. After all, if she gets married some day, she’s going to have to give up…
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Learning Leadership
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Spending Time
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 021. Our children desperately desire our attention. We can choose to give it to them proactively on our terms. Or we can wait until they misbehave and give them attention then in the form of discipline. Children are smart. They realize that if they can’t get attention from Mom…
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Discipline Yourself and Your Children
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Restore Margin To Your Life
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 019. One of my all-time favorite books is Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives* by Richard Swenson. This is a concept that is really important to a well-balanced life and it is a book that I highly recommend. If you have margin in your…
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The Importance of Chores
Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 018. I want to raise children that have a strong work ethic. I think laziness is so destructive to our personal success, especially when it comes to our careers and our relationships. It takes hard work to succeed in both those areas. I use chores to build a strong…