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365 Day Homeschool Mom: Real Encouragement for Every Homeschool Day!
Written for homeschooling moms, this book contains daily doses of encouragement for what really matters. The author (Todd Wilson) describes the contents as "pure, undiluted homeschool encouragement from the first word to the last. . . I won't tell you how to do school, what to eat, or how many children to birth (or how to birth them)." It is designed to be read daily as there are entries for each day of the year.
296 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2015
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May 29, 2022
This is the most ENCOURAGING book I have ever read on the subject of homeschooling! If you are a homeschool mom - READ THIS BOOK! Trust me, you will thank me (and the author) later!
This book is a daily encouragement to smile more often, spend more time with your kids, pick and choose what is best for your children.
Todd Wilson is just RIGHT ON! Everything he says, is just RIGHT ON! I think these are things all of us homeschool moms need to hear (and do!). We would all be happier and better people. It is also very encouraging. If you are a mom who gets discouraged by other “high academic” or “better behaved” kids, then you need to read this book!
Okay … one of my favorite daily readings was about literature. It was also hilarious and so true! It was titled, “Can I teach literature?”
Hey mom,
Can you teach literature? Does a one legged duck swim in a circle? Of course you can teach literature. Actually, I think literature can teach itself. All you need to do is read, read, and read to your child and get your child to the point where she can read herself … and then turn her loose.
If you let your kids read (and read out loud to them), they’ll learn all kinds of things about life, God, and people. With the right books, they’ll visit Narnia, listen to Pa play his fiddle, hear the snort of the black stallion, feel the fright of sighting the big white whale, and stand amazed when Jesus heals a man who was born blind.
About the only thing you can do wrong in literature is to teach it like the literature “experts” say to teach it. If you reduce it to “who is the proagonist”, “what is the meter” or “name the themes throughout the story”…you’ll ruin the whole literature experience. Plus, you’ll kill the love of reading.
So just give them good books, let them read, get out of the way…and leave the protagonist to the antagonist.
**I found this to be so true in our own family. My daughter loved to be read to when she was young. We would read for hours a day together. She also loved to read on her own and read quite long books daily. However, the minute I bought a literature ciriculum when she was in elementary, she HATED it and it just simply ruined reading for her. Thankfully, I was smart enough to throw that workbook right in the trash and told her just go back to her wonderful books and READ. She is now in high school and she still hates literature. She took a writing class through our homeschool co - op and the writing teacher made them do literature for half of the year and she told me it still ruined reading for her.
I was also really encouraged by the daily entries about reading and writing. I have a son who struggled to read and is now in middle school and reading is okay but he still struggles with 3 syllable words and forget about writing. Writing is a huge struggle for him. I also have a son who is in 2nd grade who also is struggling with reading (after teaching him phonics since kindergarten). I am also wracked with that fear of, “could someone else teach them better” and “what will their future be like”? I have some days when I want to push them harder and make them work many hours on these subject to “catch up” but now I realize that those ideas are WRONG. They will learn at their own pace and making my job is to love and encourage them as I teach them one on one and do the best I can.
And lastly, I was also really encouraged by the nudge about friendships. The homeschool world can be fiercely competitive - you know the types - those moms who’s kids never struggled to read, who all play piano and have lots of facts memorized, who do all kinds of other things outside of academics as well. Oh, and these are also the same moms who like to brag about their kids in that easy going way and tell you that you should be doing things the way THEY do them and that if you do your kids will turn out as great as her kids. Nothing leaves me more discouraged then talking to these kinds of mom. These women are not your friends … run as fast as you can. Also, if the homeschool group you are in is not encouraging, don’t waste your time and your energy! Find a new one!
Thank you Todd - I needed this encouragement!!!!!
Also, if you ever get a chance to see “The Family Man” speak live at a homeschool conference - it is a MUST!
I also love his podcasts! My husband is a fan of the Family Man podcast. I think it’s made him a better man.
I also recommend all of Todd’s other books. The cartoon book is hilarious!!!!!!!
This book is a daily encouragement to smile more often, spend more time with your kids, pick and choose what is best for your children.
Todd Wilson is just RIGHT ON! Everything he says, is just RIGHT ON! I think these are things all of us homeschool moms need to hear (and do!). We would all be happier and better people. It is also very encouraging. If you are a mom who gets discouraged by other “high academic” or “better behaved” kids, then you need to read this book!
Okay … one of my favorite daily readings was about literature. It was also hilarious and so true! It was titled, “Can I teach literature?”
Hey mom,
Can you teach literature? Does a one legged duck swim in a circle? Of course you can teach literature. Actually, I think literature can teach itself. All you need to do is read, read, and read to your child and get your child to the point where she can read herself … and then turn her loose.
If you let your kids read (and read out loud to them), they’ll learn all kinds of things about life, God, and people. With the right books, they’ll visit Narnia, listen to Pa play his fiddle, hear the snort of the black stallion, feel the fright of sighting the big white whale, and stand amazed when Jesus heals a man who was born blind.
About the only thing you can do wrong in literature is to teach it like the literature “experts” say to teach it. If you reduce it to “who is the proagonist”, “what is the meter” or “name the themes throughout the story”…you’ll ruin the whole literature experience. Plus, you’ll kill the love of reading.
So just give them good books, let them read, get out of the way…and leave the protagonist to the antagonist.
**I found this to be so true in our own family. My daughter loved to be read to when she was young. We would read for hours a day together. She also loved to read on her own and read quite long books daily. However, the minute I bought a literature ciriculum when she was in elementary, she HATED it and it just simply ruined reading for her. Thankfully, I was smart enough to throw that workbook right in the trash and told her just go back to her wonderful books and READ. She is now in high school and she still hates literature. She took a writing class through our homeschool co - op and the writing teacher made them do literature for half of the year and she told me it still ruined reading for her.
I was also really encouraged by the daily entries about reading and writing. I have a son who struggled to read and is now in middle school and reading is okay but he still struggles with 3 syllable words and forget about writing. Writing is a huge struggle for him. I also have a son who is in 2nd grade who also is struggling with reading (after teaching him phonics since kindergarten). I am also wracked with that fear of, “could someone else teach them better” and “what will their future be like”? I have some days when I want to push them harder and make them work many hours on these subject to “catch up” but now I realize that those ideas are WRONG. They will learn at their own pace and making my job is to love and encourage them as I teach them one on one and do the best I can.
And lastly, I was also really encouraged by the nudge about friendships. The homeschool world can be fiercely competitive - you know the types - those moms who’s kids never struggled to read, who all play piano and have lots of facts memorized, who do all kinds of other things outside of academics as well. Oh, and these are also the same moms who like to brag about their kids in that easy going way and tell you that you should be doing things the way THEY do them and that if you do your kids will turn out as great as her kids. Nothing leaves me more discouraged then talking to these kinds of mom. These women are not your friends … run as fast as you can. Also, if the homeschool group you are in is not encouraging, don’t waste your time and your energy! Find a new one!
Thank you Todd - I needed this encouragement!!!!!
Also, if you ever get a chance to see “The Family Man” speak live at a homeschool conference - it is a MUST!
I also love his podcasts! My husband is a fan of the Family Man podcast. I think it’s made him a better man.
I also recommend all of Todd’s other books. The cartoon book is hilarious!!!!!!!
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