Episode 8: Getting Your Kids to Listen
Have you ever said something to your kid 7,426 times, and they still don’t acknowledge you? We get it! In this episode, we are talking about how to get your kids to listen, which matters even more when you’re in the role of both mom and teacher.
Being a parent is hard work; adding the role of educator/teacher takes it to another level. However, our biggest takeaway for getting your kids to listen to you starts with you listening to your kids.
We’re not saying we have perfect kids who always listen to us, but between the four of us, we have several tools in our toolboxes to help us. Nobody wants an unhappy homeschool. Having the intuition to know if your day needs a reset, the kids need a snack, or if you–the mom–need a time-out can help your days to be smoother.
As homeschool parents, we need to consider discipleship as well as discipline. Teaching our kids acceptable behaviors and attitudes–and enacting consequences for unacceptable ones–is essential in teaching our kids to listen to us.
In this episode, we’re talking about:
- Getting to know our kids as learners (1:07)
- Honoring who our kids are (2:51)
- Classroom management vs. building relationships (4:29)
- Kids and movement (8:02)
- Discipline vs. discipleship (9:55)
- How we talk to our kids (14:22)
- What to do when you need a reset (15:09)
- Considering our own strengths and needs as moms (20:43)
- Our favorite resources for getting our kids to listen (21:35)
- What’s saving our homeschools right now (26:58)
Links from this episode:
- Charlotte Mason’s Twenty Principles
- Tom Sawyer audiobook read by Nick Offerman
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Young Peacemakers by Corlette Sande
- Dr. Kevin Leman
- How to Make Your Child Mind without Losing Yours
- Have a New Kid by Friday
- Have a New Kid by Friday podcast
- We Choose Virtues
- Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
- Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
- Annie’s favorite milk crates
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