RAR #34: Reading Aloud around a Traditional School Schedule
How does a family that follows a traditional school schedule make reading aloud a priority? We’re talking about it on today’s episode of the Read-Aloud Revival!
Whether your kids are in school all day, or you homeschool but you feel very pressed for time, reading aloud can happen!
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- practical ideas
- simple strategies
- and give you some encouragement to make reading together a priority
I think you’ll enjoy Meagan Francis as much as I do!
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Links from this episode:
- The Happiest Home (Meagan’s website for moms)
- Meagan’s website for creative maker moms
- The Life, Listened podcast network
- The Home Hour, Meagan’s podcast
- Fabulous Food from Children’s Literature (the podcast where Meagan and her sister talk about food from books)
- My appearance on Meagan’s podcast
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Hi! I have been listening to a number of your podcasts and really enjoy them. I always find new books to add to my TBR list! I really loved this most recent one, because my children do attend a traditional public school and I found myself nodding to so much of what you and Meagan said. Namely, how grumpy I am at night and that I just want the kids to go to bed. I have a very active 18-month-old boy that needs to be in bed at 7:00, and two older boys 4 and 7 (only one in public school) that could wait a little bit longer but not much longer. Its been a real struggle trying to keep our evening ritual going that we had developed before number 3 came along. I have been feeling sad that our quiet evenings have been going by the wayside.
When our oldest was little we would steam cinnamon milk, make some cinnamon toast, go upstairs at 6:30, I would wash his feet, we would do some puzzles and I would read two books. Then we would say our evening poem (Evening is coming, the sun sinks to rest…) and sing two made up songs to familiar tunes. When our second son was born, it wasn’t difficult to keep it going, both because he loved books, but he also slept really easily. It was such a great way to end the day and helped our oldest who suffers from some anxiety move towards sleep. As the age span increases and our youngest is a wiggly man but also won’t go play on his own while I read, but instead hop on my lap and pull at the book, my hair, anything and not a great sleeper and sports practices make dinner later and later its been hard to come up with evening rituals that aren’t rushed and harried. Has anyone else felt like this with the addition of a third? Trying to figure out if I can get #3 in bed early enough to keep the ritual with the older boys, but he really notices if his brothers aren’t in the room.
It was great to be “released” from reading at night before bed. I especially like the idea of reading over after-school snack. We have started listening to books from librivox and the library when we clean their room or in the car. My boys are loving “Flora and Ulysses,” “Anne of Green Gables” and “Heidi” right now. (All strong girl characters!)
Just wanted to say thank you! And I related to so much of this podcast. Both the lack of structure and the go with the flow personality. Every once in a while I do feel that your podcast isn’t speaking to a mom like me who grew up in the church and attended a christian college, but have chosen to lead a secular life with my husband. I know thats not the case, but maybe just something to keep in mind for the non-church families that still want to make their family culture around reading. All that to say, I still love it and listening to you and will continue to listen, because its one of my favorites!
I really enjoyed this! I listened while I was cleaning up my kitchen! :) I’m not a HUGE structured person either so I liked hearing about how family/reading culture can just be part of your day, in a way, instead of a strict time block. I’m trying to find the balance though, between letting us “go with the flow” and “structured time”…because as a home educating family, we do HAVE to have SOME structured time and rhythms or nothing will get done! :) We don’t have the anchors of public school bells etc so we have to create that time in our home. So far for me, if we are doing SOMETHING each day consistently that is structured we move forward…so that’s what I’m working on just consistently reading together etc a bit EACH day and it adds up to a lot in the end. Thanks, Sarah.