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Shalom Brand: Each day from morning to night we're learning and when the baby gets old enough. We're learning sign language. We're sitting at the table. I teach my kids sign language. So we're sitting there and we're doing sign language. The baby, he's four months old. Hand, thirsty, thirsty. Parker he's been doing sign language since he was a baby so he'll take the baby's finger, thirsty. It's fun, exciting and they're learning at the same time.
Shoshanna Easling: I think a big thing that people forget is to teach your kids to think. Teach them that they have a brain. You know all the leaders in this world. They're thinkers. All the leaders everywhere they're thinkers. They're people who don't do necessarily what everyone says. They're people who think is that the right thing? What's the best way to do it? You want to teach your kids to think. By teaching your kids to think it's just by thinking out loud. My parents both thought out loud all the time. They thought out loud when they were cooking. They thought out loud whether it's right or wrong. Whether it is working in the garden. Whether it's working in the kitchen. Whether it's about marriage. Whether it's about delivering babies, about herbs.
Shalom Brand: History.
Shoshanna Easling: History. Everything they thought out loud. That's huge. When you think out loud all the time you're kind of talking to your kids nonstop. I mean I'm talking to Jeremiah and Penelope like they're my coworkers here, you know? And they get use to talking to me. It builds confidence because they feel like they can look at me and ask me a question. I'll look at them like they're an adult and I will answer them. They have learned to think. Where most adults, I'm shocked, don't think. But you have to teach your children to think. And when you teach them to think. They'll learn.
Debi Pearl: Basically it's questioning everything. You question what's this material made out of? What's linen made out of? Does anyone know how to make linen? Have you ever tried to make linen? You can make linen if you want. Ask yourself questions all day long and ask your children questions.
Shalom Brand: Last week, Parker loves toothpicks. Probably because we took care of my grandfather for a year. He loves toothpicks. He has to have toothpicks. I carry toothpicks with me and when I got here I'm like why'd I bring toothpicks? Because Daddy Bill liked toothpicks and I got use to carrying them. Parker loves toothpicks he always was Daddy Bill's toothpick guy. Daddy Bill would say go get me a toothpick. Last week Parker and I, he was talking about toothpicks. So we went to Netflix and we looked up toothpicks and we found a Discovery show on how to make toothpicks and we watched it and it was totally fascinating I had never known how to make toothpicks.
Debi Pearl: I didn't teach her that.
Shoshanna Easling: He taught her how to think.
Shalom Brand: So Parker when we got home I was like Parker tell Daddy what you learned today. And he's in his two year old language their talking about toothpicks. Then the Discovery show also went into how to make helicopters which Parker found even more interesting. Then he told Daddy all about helicopters and what fiber they were made out of. Anyway we do things like that all the time. Learning.
Debi Pearl: Basically homeschooling was not workbooks and now you all have so many curriculums and you feel like you're under such a burden to do the English, math, history and the science. If I were homeschooling again now, I would have math and I would have reading and everything else would be projects. Things that we just discovered. We just went to the library and got books on and we would learn Science and I'd probably do them just like I did back then. Have like three weeks of science. A particular kind of science, like earth science.
We would learn it together. Just all sit around reading book out loud together and learning together and then running and looking it up on the computer or running and looking it up in the encyclopedia if anyone ever has any now. That's how I would do school, but there's different strokes for different folks.
I think a Visionary does it more like I did it. I think that if you happen to have Visionary children. Which chances are if you have three children one of them is a Visionary. That child is not going to learn well in books. If you happen to have Steadies. Remember the Steadies that we studied just a little while ago. Then that child's probably is going to do better with a book than a workbook.
If you happen to have a King child then that child's probably is going to do better when you're talking to them and teaching them straight out like that. What you have to be as a momma to your husband you also have to be to your children. You have to be flexible and ready to be what they need you to be.
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I love those short, sweet, packed full of wisdom videos. Busy mama's need that. We've got a 9th grader this year and am feeling the pressure of high school homeschool. Though she's what you call a "steady", she is also an easily "stressed perfectionist", and go figure, she has digestive issues. Your wise comments reminded me to stay focused on what's really important. My vision is for our children to be able to look back and remember how much fun they had learning really neat "stuff" during their school years at home. May God continue to bless your ministry! PS We looked up how hot dogs were made on the internet -- Yuk! This got them over liking these things pretty quickly.