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The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. Homemaking and homeschooling can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. If you’re a Christian mom longing for a well-ordered home, a peaceful homeschool, and a joyful heart—without the stress or burnout—you’re in the right place. Moms can be productive and peaceful when grounded in Scriptural truth. I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home…
Episodes
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerKnowing Your Child’s Personality
Understanding differences in personality type can drastically reduce conflict and friction in relationships, and this is as true with our children as it is…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerReview Required Every Morning
Try as I might, I cannot escape the reality that having a plan is not good enough. I have to work the plan. It’s painful, but true. In a GTD set-up, the review…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPersonality & Learning Styles
Those of us educating young children tend to use the vocabulary of learning styles, though current research seems to be showing that most of the learning…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerReview Required Every Week
Regular review is the absolute key to maintaining a sense of organization. You have to look at your lists to make them happen, and that looking over is called…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerPersonality Typing
So, I will admit it. I am a personality nerd. I think that understanding MBTI typing makes us better parents, too. Typing people into 4-12 kinds has been going…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerWhat professional moms need
A weekly review is a common business productivity recommendation, the best tip for how to organize your life, and a practice I encourage in my course…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of Review
Gregory posits not only that review and application are the “essential conditions of all true teaching,” but also that “not to review is to leave the job half…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerEHAP, a tidy-house strategy
We have a small practice that saves the state of our house, almost every day. It’s simple and effective – as long as we do it. When I keep the time in the late…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Learning Process
What is a teacher? What is teaching? According to Gregory, the art of education — that is, teaching — is two-fold: Teaching is the art of training. Teaching is…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerCheerful Chore Challenge
We moderns tend to compartmentalize our lives, thinking of what we do – and who we are as we do them – as unrelated segments and pieces. So there easily…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Law of the Teaching Process
This, claims Gregory, is the most widely recognized rule among good teachers. Although there may be times to disregard this law — when time is of the essence…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerBe a happy homemaker.
Many of us are task-driven. We want to see things done, accomplished, finished. This is what the world tells us is productivity. In this view, homemaking 101…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Lesson
Gregory begins with a defense of his position that children possess the innate ability to think, which I will simply assume and not summarize. If you aren’t…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerClean House with the End in Mind
If you’re like me, you try – at least occasionally – to become better, more effective, more competent in your roles and responsibilities at home. And then…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Language
Gregory speaks in this chapter of language as a vehicle of instruction, an instrument of learning, and a storehouse of knowledge. Briefly, he means that…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerA reasonably clean house
Have you yet discovered Auntie Leila at Like Mother, Like Daughter? She has a great series called The Reasonably Clean House. I have a weakness for reading…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Learner
Summary of Law 2: The learner must attend with interest to the material to be learned. A learner – which is what our children are supposed to be – cannot be…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerWhat novels taught me about cleaning house
Housework seemed like a stupid waste of time. And I hated wastes of time and stupidity, so I triply hated housework. I was torn between wanting to be a good…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Teacher
What is a teacher? What is teaching? According to Gregory, the art of education — that is, teaching — is two-fold: Teaching is the art of training. Teaching is…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerWhy clean the house?
Personally, I always wanted a home to keep. I never wanted a career. I have only ever wanted a home and family to tend. I’ve never questioned that it is…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerInterval Planning: Grow your capacity.
The problem with much of the productivity and planning advice out there is that it begins with a vision for a 5-year outcome. When we as mothers at home try to…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Best Teacher
What adjectives do you associate with repetition? Dullness, boredom, monotony. What about training, practice, discipline, rehearsal. Pianists practice the same…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerInterval Planning: An example holiday plan
I’m a proponent of making short-term plans and goals – ones that can be tracked and kept top-of-mind easily. I call it ‘interval planning’ because I think it’s…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerLiving from Rest
So, I discovered that otium was the Latin word for leisure, and although I have not encountered it in education talks, it seems to have been the word used by…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerInterval Planning: Keep laser focus
Leverage the interval training technique in your personal life by setting up your calendar in intervals and planning goals accordingly. Planning and executing…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerSeeking or Seeming?
Would we rather look good than be good, than do what is right? What if we prioritized being and doing good over looking good? And I’m not talking about makeup…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerInterval Planning: Take a restful break
Breaking up your year into intervals is a simple way to sharpen your focus and stay engaged with projects and the things that need to be done to keep life at…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerInterval Planning: Making an Interval Plan
Welcome to The Simplified Organization Audio Blog! Releasing weekly on Mondays, this podcast gives you short and punchy action items and mindset resets. Check…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerA Life of Repentance
Education is For Life This motto keyed into a vague notion I’ve been pondering lately: The idea of focusing more on the process, on doing what I should do, and…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerDaily Faithfulness
Faithfulness doesn’t imply large, impressive deeds. Faithfulness is all about doing what’s in front of you – your own duty, however humble that is – reliably…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerThe Simple Life
Often when we plan out our goals, we think in year-long chunks of time, either personal goals in January or academic goals in August. If you’ve ever done this…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerRealistic Goal Setting: Interval Training
Often when we plan out our goals, we think in year-long chunks of time, either personal goals in January or academic goals in August. If you’ve ever done this…
The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie WincklerDaily Faithfulness
Festina Lente, or Faithfulness part of the Education Is for Life series This series was inspired by Chrisopher Perrin’s great webinars on the principles of…