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EPISODE 6:The Magic of Positive Parenting · Parent's Talk with Francine Juhlin

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome to parents Talk. I am Franci Juliene, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: known as Princess Francie, who happens to be my inner
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  Speaker 1: child and the main character of my children's book Sparkle
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  Speaker 1: Feathers and Princess Franci the Magic Library. And you might
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  Speaker 1: think my book is all about children reading in a library,
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  Speaker 1: maybe just a little bit. It's really about meditation. Your
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  Speaker 1: brain is the library, and we clean up that library,
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  Speaker 1: make it all nice and neat when we teach children
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  Speaker 1: how to meditate. I have a guest with me today.
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  Speaker 1: Holly Filary is a mother of a swarmy seven year
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  Speaker 1: old boy, and she's a children's book author who owns schools. So, Hollie,
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  Speaker 1: I would love for you to give us a little
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  Speaker 1: introduction about your book while I share on the screen
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  Speaker 1: your color.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, my book is called Your Homeschool Art, and it
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  Speaker 3: shows the day in the life of Joey, my seven
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  Speaker 3: year old, his homeschool day, and it shows that we're
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  Speaker 3: not we're not weird. We do school like everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: We are at the table doing bookwork, but we're also
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  Speaker 3: playing outside and we go on all sorts of field
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  Speaker 3: trips and we have all sorts of extra clubs and activities.
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  Speaker 3: It breaks. It shows the stereotype that we're not weird.
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  Speaker 3: We just do school different, not weird, just different.
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  Speaker 1: I love that because that's like the basis for my
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  Speaker 1: book is line's different. We need to be comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: what makes us different.
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  Speaker 3: Right exactly, it's it's not weird, we just do things
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  Speaker 3: different than your typical school systems.
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  Speaker 1: And what made you want to write this book?
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  Speaker 2: So it we were actually at the lake and it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of right after school had started and everyone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have school today, and my son was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm homeschooled.
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  Speaker 3: And it just got me thinking. There are a ton
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  Speaker 3: of books for adults who are homeschooling, and there are
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  Speaker 3: some for kids, but there's not enough children's books about
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  Speaker 3: homeschooling for the kids to reassure them that it's okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty much the norm anymore. And it's it's not weird,
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds awesome. So why did you choose home schooling.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you had an option between public school
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  Speaker 1: or homeschooling. What made you choose it?
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  Speaker 3: When my son was kindergarten age we actually lived in
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  Speaker 3: the worst school district for our state. The school system
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  Speaker 3: was not great, and it just it wasn't safe, and
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  Speaker 3: there was just a lot of issues in the school
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  Speaker 3: system at that time and there still are, but they
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  Speaker 3: just was really bad at that particular time. And someone
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  Speaker 3: mentioned to me about homeschooling, and I thought, surely I
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  Speaker 3: can teach kindergarten at the very least. And once we started,
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  Speaker 3: I just I loved it and I was learning with him,
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  Speaker 3: watching him learn and grow, and I didn't want to stop.
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  Speaker 3: And we're still doing it several years later.
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  Speaker 1: It just sounds like so much fun. But now, never
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  Speaker 1: having been involved with homeschooling, I have a friend who
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  Speaker 1: does it, so I hear some of her stories. I
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  Speaker 1: have a question for you, how do you inspire your
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  Speaker 1: son to go past the curriculum. I know you have
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  Speaker 1: the guidelines of what your state tells you you have
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  Speaker 1: to teach, but how do you inspire your son to
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  Speaker 1: really dig deeply into the subjects that matter to him.
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  Speaker 3: So we were at a classical library about comic books
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  Speaker 3: and how to write them and how to draw them,
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  Speaker 3: and my son it kind of sparked a little interest,
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  Speaker 3: I noticed, and we got and he wanted to check
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  Speaker 3: out a comic book, and so he checked one out
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  Speaker 3: from the library and he got home and he was
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  Speaker 3: reading it. He goes, this is really cool, and I
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  Speaker 3: found a little template online that it's like a kind
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  Speaker 3: of has the background of a comic strip, and you
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  Speaker 3: just fill it in what you want. And all day
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  Speaker 3: he spent drawing the comic book character in the book
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  Speaker 3: he was reading and making up his own stories and
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  Speaker 3: diving deeper into it. And when he was doing that,
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  Speaker 3: he was learning about art and language, about how comic
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  Speaker 3: books are and just all sorts of stuff. And I
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  Speaker 3: didn't shove it, you know. I didn't give him a like,
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  Speaker 3: here do this. It was oh, look, here's something that
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  Speaker 3: might interest you. I'll leave it here if you want
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  Speaker 3: to do it. And he just latched onto it. And
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  Speaker 3: we've done that with so many different subjects machines. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: we're learning about Oxa Lottels, which are really popular. It's
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  Speaker 3: a little salamander from Mexico that is really cute and interesting.
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  Speaker 3: But he just if he hooks on, if I see
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  Speaker 3: a little spark, I kind of leave stuff out for
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  Speaker 3: him and I'm like, oh, look, here's a cool video
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  Speaker 3: and see if he latches on and see how deep
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  Speaker 3: he wants to go, and we just go down the
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  Speaker 3: rabbit hole. As most people say.
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  Speaker 1: That just really sparked something in me because I have
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  Speaker 1: the online Confidence Club for kids, and my free newsletter
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  Speaker 1: starts out with a little activity for the kids to
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  Speaker 1: design their own superhero.
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  Speaker 3: Oh nice, Yeah, that's exactly pretty much exactly what he
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  Speaker 3: was doing. He just total rabbit hole on that one.
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  Speaker 3: He's still still interested. Yay.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are watching this, I am going to
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  Speaker 1: drop the link and where you could get my newsletter
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  Speaker 1: and get this activity for your kids and see how
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  Speaker 1: you could spark their imagination and let them design their
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  Speaker 1: own superhero and see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen. Especially with the
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  Speaker 3: little kids that are made imagination is amazing. If you
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  Speaker 3: just let them imagine, you never know what they're going
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  Speaker 3: to come up with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you know what, that's true for adults too.
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  Speaker 1: I never ever imagine I'd be a children's book author.
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  Speaker 1: I was an electrician.
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  Speaker 3: Hi never in a million years like this happened. It
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  Speaker 3: just was a little idea and I just it wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: go away. It would not go away until I did it,
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  Speaker 3: and then it just took off.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're listening to this and you ever thought
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  Speaker 1: about being a children book author, just take a little
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  Speaker 1: comment below and let me know and we could talk.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely, just just do it. It's so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: Is there something last comment? You want to make? Something
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  Speaker 1: to leave the audience? Of course, we also want to
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  Speaker 1: know how could they find you on Instagram? And how
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  Speaker 1: can they get your book?
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  Speaker 3: So on Instagram it's Freedom Farm Life because we are
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  Speaker 3: on a twelve acre farm. And then my book is
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  Speaker 3: on Amazon it's called Your Homeschool. I bet that's weird.
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  Speaker 3: If you also look up my name Holly Joy Fillery,
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  Speaker 3: you'll be able to find it that way as well
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  Speaker 3: on Amazon, and I'll give you the link so you
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  Speaker 3: can host.
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  Speaker 1: It as well. And I definitely want to invite you
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  Speaker 1: back to talk about your farm. Because in the Confidence
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  Speaker 1: Club for Kids, we show little videos of different things
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  Speaker 1: the kids might like to spark that interest in imagination.
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  Speaker 3: And then oh yeah, I got so many little videos
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  Speaker 3: of playing in the creek or with the chickens or
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  Speaker 3: on the tires. I got tons of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, that well, we'll definitely have you back on everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Please go to Amazon check out her book, and please
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  Speaker 1: this is a public service announcement for all authors. We
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  Speaker 1: love reviews. Please review books.
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  Speaker 2: So excited.
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  Speaker 3: I check Amazon several times a day, and anytime my
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  Speaker 3: review jumps up one, I have to go and read
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  Speaker 3: it because it's so exciting to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and if you leave a review with your name
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  Speaker 1: on it, I will also make you famous on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So this is episode six of Parents Talk. Stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: because we have some more exciting people coming to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about tips and tricks for raising strong and
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  Speaker 1: confident cars. Bye.