RAR #72: How to Save a Bad Day
Bad days – we all have them, right? We can’t really avoid that, but we can have a strategy tucked into our pocket- a simple strategy that will help us save a bad day.
As a mama of 6 kids – preschool through high school – I sure do. So today, I’m talking how to save those no good, very bad days! 😉
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- a simple strategy that is the ultimate reset button
- the genre of books that saves the day time and time again
- what Jim Trelease and Andrew Pudewa say is the most important part of your school day (I bet you can guess!)
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Books from this episode:
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Links from today’s show:
Need free fairy tales you can access digitally? Try these resources:
- Nursery Tales Told to the Children by Amy Steedman (at The Baldwin Project)
- A Childhood’s Favorites & Fairy Tales on Project Gutenberg
- For the Children’s Hour (on Baldwin Project)
- The Children’s Nursery
- Here’s the main page at The Baldwin Project
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This has saved us more than once this week. I am so happy to have found Read Aloud Revival!
Getting caught up on old podcasts – loved this one! It totally resets my kids, but, honestly, I find it helps ME when I’M having a bad day too. When I am burnt out, reading aloud to my kids doesn’t require interpersonal interactions, physical exertion, deep mental processing, etc. I just sit there cuddling while saying someone else’s beautiful words. Perfect!
I had a bad day today! It’s so good to have ‘permission’ to do this: drop the checklist to read aloud! Thank you
Thank you so much for this podcast. I have been beating myself up lately a lot as a mother and a teacher. I have three children who are still learning to read and it is a huge challenge daily. I have many days that are a struggle and my heart breaks for these kids who have to struggle to learn how to read. However, they do enjoy being read to. This was a good reminder to hold on tight to that Love and feed it as often as possible and not fret over the things not done. Thank you.
Yes! Hold tight to love, mama!
Why have I never thought of this!! I am a mom of a 2 and 4 year old. Meltdowns are a regular feature in our house…ugh!! I will try this asap!! Thank you. Nadia
Yes!! We moved to South America and enrolled our children in school so they could learn Spanish. After school is awful!! I learned quickly that sitting down after everyone gets home and reading and reading saves our sanity and resets us all.
I am getting the podcasts downloaded to my itunes account, but when I sync it with the ipod, they never appear, so I am unable to listen to them except at my computer. I apologize for posting this here, but I didn’t know how else to figure this out! I am not a computer whiz by any means. I have tried 6 ways to Sunday to get them on there and have given up. I don’t have version 12.7 and my ipod is the older, larger basic one. Thanks for any advice.
Thank you for a great suggestion!
I have been surprised to discover, since having kids, that reading children’s books aloud resets MY attitude. There is something about becoming enthralled in the story of someone else. It always dims the craziness and urgency of my own chaos. Darling stories and beautiful pictures are my calming inhale and exhale.
That is EXACTLY righ and true for me as well!!!
Oh, Kelsy! I think you might really be on to something here! It’s not just a re-set for our kids–it’s for us as well. Yes!
I love this I’ve been trying to add more and more reading time into our school day. This is completely off topic but I was wondering if you could do a blog post to update your homeschool curriculum for the new school year!
You know what I love about this idea? I love that it says to the kids, relationships are more important than the checklist. :)
So good Sarah and Jennifer, you are so right!
Yep! You nailed it, Jennifer!