Give the Gift of Audio Books

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Do you spend a lot of time in the car, taking your children to co-op, doctor’s appointments, violin lessons, science olympiad practice, soccer etc? That is the perfect time to listen to books together. In this post, I am sharing only one resource, but it is the key that unlocks a lifelong relationship with books and knowledge: Audible memberships. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Boy listening to audible books in the car

Listening to books in the car doubles your teaching efforts.

I read 1,000 books before Kindergarten to my children. By the time we enrolled them officially in our homeschool as “Kindergarten students,” my children could read on a 3rd grade level. Use this Reading Level Test to assess where your child is now. Continue reading »


Book 2 of 50 – How to Win Friends

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Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People (affiliate link) before World War II – in 1936, to be precise. To this day, this book still stands as the best in the self-improvement, self-help category in any bookstore.

Lady listening to audiobook

Me, listening to “How to Win Friends…,” while waiting during my children’s Science Olympiad exams, at Friendship Christian School in Lebanon, TN

I read this book about 25 years ago and felt I needed a refresher. What spurred this on was the fact that my son, age 15, has found out about this book from Hamza, a YouTuber he watches. My son asked if we had the book. Well, I used to. I moved countries one too many times and left it behind somewhere in Sweden. Continue reading »