The Flight of the Wee Chick

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Keeping the Wonder: An Educator's Guide to Magical, Engaging, and Joyful Learning

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My Teacher Glows in the Dark

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Soul Care to Save Your Life: How Radical Honesty Leads to Real Healing

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All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe

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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

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Treasures of Darkness

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Veil: An Invitation to the Unseen Realm

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Gum, Geckos, and God: A Family’s Adventure in Space, Time, and Faith

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My Boys Duet

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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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Half My Life: How Jesus Conquored My Soul

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Worth Every Drop: God's Relentless Pursuit to Prove YOU MATTER

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The Parent You Want to Be: Who You Are Matters More Than What You Do

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The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

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How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?

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Spiritual Conversations with Children: Listening to God Together

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Empty Nest, Full Life: Discovering God's Best for Your Next

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The Runaway Clock

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Dad Tired and Loving It: Stumbling Your Way to Spiritual Leadership

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Why I Didn't Rebel: A Twenty-Two-Year-Old Explains Why She Stayed on the Straight and Narrow---and How Your Kids Can Too

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All Clear: Lessons From A Decade Managing School Crises

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Move On: When Mercy Meets Your Mess

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Declutter Like a Mother: A Guilt-Free, No-Stress Way to Transform Your Home and Your Life

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Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor's Guide to Motherhood

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The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears

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Bedtime Stories for Kids: Magic Unicorns, Dinosaurs, Princess, Kings, Fairies, Creatures to Help Children & Toddlers Fall Asleep Fast at Night’s with Positive Affirmations to Reduce Anxiety

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The Double Life of Danny Day

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

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Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition

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The Children of Now...Evolution: How We Can Support the Fast-Forward Evolution of Our Children and All of Humanity

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The Action Bible: God's Redemptive Story

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Summary: 12 Rules for Life - An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

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Audio Bible Studies

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Total Apocrypha: The 15 Hidden Apocryphal Books Included In The Bible King James Version

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Grumpy Dragons: Dragons Teaching Kids They Have Choices

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Shaken: Young Readers Edition: Fighting to Stand Strong No Matter What Comes Your Way

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Koran

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Bible Comes Alive: Album 01

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The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every story whispers his name

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Left Behind - The Kids: Collection 1: Vols. 1-4

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Becoming The Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits

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The Boy on the Wooden Box

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The Tombs of Anak

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The Action Bible New Testament: God's Redemptive Story

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The Case for Christ Young Reader's Edition: Investigating the Toughest Questions about Jesus

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The Bronze Bow: A Newbery Award Winner

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A Year of Bible Stories: A Treasury of 48 Best Loved Stories from God's Word

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Buddhism for Beginners: A plain and simple Introduction to Zen Buddhism for busy People – discover why Buddhism is true (even without Beliefs) (Guided Meditations and Mindfulness)

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What I Learned in Narnia

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Bible Stories for Growing Kids

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The Princess and the Goblin

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Bhagavad Gita

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Case for Christ for Kids

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The Berenstain Bears School Days Collection: 6 Books in 1, Includes activities, recipes, and more!

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Escape from the Island of Aquarius

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The Berenstain Bears Values and Virtues Treasury: 8 Books in 1

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Nightmare Academy

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The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids

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The Glass Castle

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Kingdom's Dawn: The Kingdom Series, Book 1

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Episode 6: Why Living Books are Essential: Living books are the heart of a Mason education. Education is a life, and living books are the food the mind requires for its nourishment. Liz, Emily, and Nicole share excerpts from some living books to demonstrate the power of living ideas. They discuss

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Does Love Require Complete Acceptance (Jedidiah Jenkins)

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090 Imagination and Mindfulness Weekends With Bruce Langford: Imagination and mindfulness fits together beautifully. What does imagination conjure up for you? For me, I think of children. I think of the book, Alice in Wonderland, by Luis Carroll. There is so much to think about in that book that connects imagin...

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This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)

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The Wisdom to Know the Difference

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Episode 35: Listener Q&A #5: This podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education focuses on some listener questions, notably, what to do about dawdlers, how to motivate apathetic students, and a couple of particulars about implementing history lessons. Listen Now: If you

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Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’: Here’s a sobering thought: The older we get, the harder it is for us to learn, to question, to reimagine. This isn’t just habit hardening into dogma. It’s encoded into the way our brains change as we age. And it’s worsened by an intellectual and economic culture that prizes efficiency and dismisses play. Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she runs the Cognitive Development and Learning Lab; she’s also the author of over 100 papers and half a dozen books, including “The Gardener and the Carpenter” and “The Philosophical Baby.” What I love about her work is she takes the minds of children seriously. The child’s mind is tuned to learn. They are, she writes, the R. & D. departments of the human race. But a mind tuned to learn works differently from a mind trying to exploit what it already knows. So instead of asking what children can learn from us, perhaps we need to reverse the

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+1: Your Stinkin’ Thinkin’ | Chickens, Poop, and Neutral Thinking (#1260): In our last +1, we spent some more time with Trevor Moawad and explored some more wisdom from his great book, It Takes What It Takes.   As you may recall, we chatted about neutral thinking.   As Trevor says: “No matter where I work,...

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Dealing with Aggression in Boys (Podcast 398): I have moms email me periodically asking how to deal with the aggression that seems to be more present in boys. (Hint: aggression is not necessarily a bad thing). I hope you'll listen in and share this episode with your friends! Resources mentioned i...

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When Your Child Shuts Down | Part 2: Toddlers When we think of a child shutting down we inevitably think of those toddler years. My mom and I have often laughed and said to each other, “it’s a good thing that God makes toddlers so cute”. They are so awesome, cute and pudgy,

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3 Best Ways to Overcome Your Fears: Fear is learned. For proof, look at a child. Don’tcha just wish you could get it back? True story alert. When I was not quite a teenager, I used to head to Rehm Park in Oak Park, IL. They had this amazing platform, which they built the year I was...

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#164 Laura Jordan Bambach: How To Get Those Lightbulb Moments (Dropbox Series Part 1): (Dropbox Series Part 1) I am very excited to bring to you a mini series of four episodes in partnership with Dropbox around the topics of creativity and collaboration. As you know on this podcast I interview interesting creatives about the internet, th...

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Our Workplaces Think We’re Computers. We’re Not.: For decades, our society’s dominant metaphor for the mind has been a computer. A machine that operates the exact same way whether it’s in a dark room or next to a sunny window, whether it’s been working for 30 seconds or three hours, whether it’s near other computers or completely alone. But that’s wrong. Annie Murphy Paul’s “The Extended Mind” argues, convincingly, that the human mind is contextual. It works differently in different environments, with different tools, amid different bodily states, among other minds. Here’s the problem: Our schools, our workplaces, our society are built atop that bad metaphor. Activities and habits that we’ve been taught to associate with creativity and efficiency often stunt our thinking, and so much that we’ve been taught to dismiss — activities that look like leisure, play or rest — are crucial to thinking (and living!) well. Paul’s book, read correctly, is a radical critique of not just how we th

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Are We Gossiping When We Speak Negatively About Our Children (Podcast 420): I recently had a mom reach out to me with some thoughts and an excellent question that I think is important for us to take a few minutes to think through and then, as always, go to the scriptures for our direction.   Are we gossiping about our kids ...

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Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love

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Boys and Peer Pressure (Podcast 493): In the process of writing my book, a mom suggested that I should address the topic of peer pressure. I have a section in my book on that and thought it would be a great topic for today's podcast! CTC Math Heritage Defense Our CPS Story The Excel Camp...

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Discovering The Hidden Gems | Jon Klassen on Publishing Picture Books for Kids: We all have them: Those kids’ books we were gifted or we picked up on a whim because the title was intriguing or the characters were familiar. But then we crack them open, and BAM— total schlock. With the sheer amount of content for children out there, it's increasingly difficult to find the good stuff; the content that inspires wonder. The types of shows, movies, and books WE remember loving as kids. Jon Klassen, father of two and celebrated author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, joins us to talk about his thoughts on creating books that kids and parents love. Stick around for the end, where Marc, Adam, and their kids fire off some personal book endorsements and condemnations.

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Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’: Here’s a sobering thought: The older we get, the harder it is for us to learn, to question, to reimagine. This isn’t just habit hardening into dogma. It’s encoded into the way our brains change as we age. And it’s worsened by an intellectual and economic culture that prizes efficiency and dismisses play. Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she runs the Cognitive Development and Learning Lab; she’s also the author of over 100 papers and half a dozen books, including “The Gardener and the Carpenter” and “The Philosophical Baby.” What I love about her work is she takes the minds of children seriously. The child’s mind is tuned to learn. They are, she writes, the R. & D. departments of the human race. But a mind tuned to learn works differently from a mind trying to exploit what it already knows. So instead of asking what children can learn from us, perhaps we need to re

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Some Thoughts on Our Kids’ Friendships (Podcast 405): I recently had a mom reach out to me to ask about my thoughts on friendships/relationships/boundaries and outside-the-home time with others.  This episode is not exhaustive by any means, but a few things that certainly come to mind! Resources mention...

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The Emotional Canine: In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The blue ribbon emotions and how they show in canines.  Managing frustration in training.  Recognizing human interpretation of intentionality in relation to canine behaviors. The physical, mental,...

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Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking: For decades, our society’s dominant metaphor for the mind has been a computer. A machine that operates the exact same way whether it’s in a dark room or next to a sunny window, whether it’s been working for 30 seconds or three hours, whether it’s near other computers or completely alone. But that’s wrong. Annie Murphy Paul’s “The Extended Mind” argues, convincingly, that the human mind is contextual. It works differently in different environments, with different tools, amid different bodily states, among other minds. Here’s the problem: Our schools, our workplaces, our society are built atop that bad metaphor. Activities and habits that we’ve been taught to associate with creativity and efficiency often stunt our thinking, and so much that we’ve been taught to dismiss — activities that look like leisure, play or rest — are crucial to thinking (and living!) well. Paul’s book, read correctly, is a radical critique of

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Interview with John Rosemond

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Episode 7: How to Recognize 'Living Books': If you desire to use living books in your children's education, but are not confident of your ability to discern which books are "living" and which are not, this episode contains the practical information you need. Criteria for determining if a book is l

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Episode 45: Listener Q&A #8: This week's podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education--the delectable education--is a question and answer session. Listen to this lively, animated, and slightly controversial discussion of short lessons, nature study, free time, and Bibl

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The Magic of Believing: Have you read the books, “As a Man Thinketh" and “The Magic of Believing?“ Both books are classics on the subject of mindset and the laws of success. In this podcast episode, I read excerpts from both books. The idea to share this message came...

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Teaching Our Children Gratitude – 14 Tips To Help Children Be Grateful – Ep 80

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Talking to Kids About Heaven with Joni Eareckson Tada: On the twenty fifth episode of the Family Discipleship Podcast the hosts (Adam Griffin and Cassie Bryant) talk about heaven with Joni Eareckson Tada.

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Screen-Free Summer & Media Management – Part 2 – 476

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TKC 423 Nicholson Baker: Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids   Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26 The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a choice. Whatever the cutoff age is, they have a choice, but...

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When Our Kids Interrupt (Podcast 472): Interrupting can be one of the more frustrating parts of parenting so I thought I'd address this topic with helpful suggestions and reasons why addressing this is so important! Resources mentioned in this episode: Excel College ctcmath.com  The Unhu...