143: Prioritize Your Strengths. Energize Your Homeschool.

One of the secrets to a sustainable homeschool is YOU. Your strengths energize you, and what energizes you will energize your homeschool. Doing what you are good at and what you enjoy will make your homeschool more enjoyable, efficient, and empowered. So we're focusing on YOUR strengths in this episode. Listeners share their unique strengths and how they're rocking their strengths to rock their homeschool. We know you'll be inspired by the ways real-life parents are using their incredible, practical, and unconventional strengths in homeschool.   Takeaways -ENERGIZE: Your strengths energize you, and what energizes you will energize your homeschool.    -ENJOY: Doing what you are good at and what you enjoy will make your homeschool more enjoyable.   -EMBRACE: When we embrace our strengths, we give permission to our kids to do that same from an early age!   -EFFECTIVE & EFFICIENT: Working within your strengths is the most effective and efficient way to learn and work.    -EDUCATE: We learn best when we're feeling good and enjoying our experience of learning--finding that sweet spot of being in our strengths!   -EMPOWERING: You and your kids will feel empowered to be who you are, to learn how you learn best, and to be supported in your own strengths as you support one another.    $5 Back to School Summit This summit is for new and experienced homeschoolers to inspire and equip us to design a SUSTAINABLE school year. We'll help keep your homeschool simple, real, and fun by reframing your expectations and giving you real-life solutions.    You'll get:  *3 inspiring and practical conversations  *Digital printable worksheets with reflection questions, takeaways, and partner episodes  *Special savings for our App School Guide & Curriculum Guide bundle *Patrons also get exclusive savings on our Personality & Homeschool Classes bundle and 2+ additional episodes a month     Mentions When you join Patreon, you get access to our Patreon Squad Facebook Group -- a fun and fantastic community of like-minded homeschool parents.     Books Visit our new bookshop.org store. When you shop with Bookshop, you're supporting us AND a local independent bookstore of your choice. Woohoo!   Listener Review chemicalhippos, 09/16/2020 "Not only is this my favorite homeschool podcast, it's my FAVORITE PODCAST. I listen to every episode and have recently started working through the back catalog. I'm a young mom and my kids are still young but I find so much reassurance in Maren and Angela's stories about homeschooling and raising older kids. They are like the cool older sisters I never had and inspire me to chill out and focus on connecting with my kids instead of forcing them to do workbook after workbook. I also love getting a glimpse into their long and beautiful friendship. It's a privilege to be a part of. " Leave us a 5-star rating and review here.     Loving This Week Angela: Laurel Bristow on Instagram Maren: Article   More About Homeschool Unrefined We are an inclusive and nonsectarian podcast. We believe Black Lives Matter, and we are LGBTQ+ affirming (for more, read our piece on Romper). We are listener supported and are donating 10% of all Patreon income and product sales to The Conscious Kid, a Black and Brown-led organization that has been instrumental in our own evolution and in leading the way in both ideological and tangible change with their work in "parenting and education through a critical race lens." Read our full ABAR Statement here and on Instagram.     Connect with us!  Visit our website | Sign up for our newsletter. | Support us on Patreon. | Join our closed Facebook group: Unrefined Homeschoolers | Merch Shop Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube Angela on Instagram: @unrefinedangela | Maren on Instagram: @unrefinedmaren Email us any questions or feedback at [email protected] Visit our Amazon Shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/homeschoolunrefined We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.