--Nobody wants to gather around with people who despise you and who see you as a task to be checked off...They (our children) should see us laboring hard to make a beautiful life for them while not losing sight of them in it. This quote, along with Sarah's book, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace, has me rereading all those homeschooling books I read so long ago. I want to make sure my children's education is not just one more thing to be checked off, unless they are a child that wants to check off the box.

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I'm sharing notes from my reading of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. This is part two. You can read part one of my notes and thoughts here, Hold On to Your Kids {part 1}. Quotes from the book are in bold and my thoughts follow.--The will to connect must be in the parents before there is anything positive for the child to respond to. Ahh, I need to examine my heart.

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--morning collection is very important This is something I used to struggle with especially with my older children. They have alarm clocks. They don't use or they ignore their clocks. I resented this. But in reading Sally Clarkson, and I don't recall if it was a post or book in particular, it seemed like she took great joy in waking her children. So now I wake my children most mornings. Right now, Leo and I go door to door and say, "Good Morning. Happy Monday (or Tuesday...) Time to start getting around." I've put this in the perspective that sooner rather than later those rooms will be empty and my children will have to wake up on their own. Sooner, rather than later, I will be waking up without a full house.

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