Learning and Growing With Your Kids (with Dr. Jordan Alamzar)

This week’s special guest is Dr. Jordan Almanzar, a professor at Magdalen College in Warner, New Hampshire, who also teaches Greek and Latin at Kolbe Academy. He is author of When the Earth Was Flat : One Boy’s Life at the Edge of the Millennium. Jordan and I discuss homeschooling, and ways that all parents are called to be the primary educators of their children.

Snippet from the Show:
Don’t stress over not fitting the mold: the mold you’re meant to be is a gift to your kids.

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This week’s special guest is Dr. Jordan Almanzar, a professor at Magdalen College in Warner, New Hampshire, who also teaches Greek and Latin at Kolbe Academy. He is author of When the Earth Was Flat : One Boy’s Life at the Edge of the Millennium. Jordan and I discuss homeschooling, sharing encouraging and affirming words for those in the trenches of the hard work of motherhood and fatherhood.

Dos and Don’ts When Considering Homeschooling

Don’ts:
Don’t catastrophize: Enjoy the ride.
Don’t stress over not fitting the mold: the mold you’re meant to be is a gift to your kids.
Don’t be surprised when mistakes happen.

Dos:
Familiarize yourself with local resources as well as state homeschooling laws.
Dive in to school subjects with them, participate with them!
Give your children age-appropriate freedoms in exploration and play!
“Do dangerous things carefully.”
Be playful and have fun: joy and excitement is contagious.

Listener Question (35:30)

At the end of today’s show, I share a question from listener Marie who wants to know how to get started with writing for Catholic publications. 

Song of the Week 

This week’s song is The Wine We Drink by Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors. To me, this is a beautiful, reflective song about married love. Ellie Holcomb, Drew’s wife, is the female lead vocal in this one. 🙂

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Megan Madden

Megan Madden is a homeschooling mother with a passion for writing and speaking on authentic femininity and virtuous womanhood. In 2017, she began graduate studies in marriage and family at the International Theological Institute in Austria. After moving to Kraków, Poland to work with university students, Megan more personally continued her research on the complementarity of man and woman, particularly on the question of what it means to be a woman. She delved into the study of renowned Catholic writers on women such as St. Edith Stein, Gertrude von le Fort, Alice von Hildebrand, St. John Paul II, and St. Teresa of Avila.

The results were the development of Megan’s online ministry A Mother’s Lace, as well as speaking opportunities and her book with Ascension: Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter.

Megan lives outside of Oxford, England with her husband, who is a lecturer in theology, and their five children.

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