On today’s episode we are speaking to Brooke Romney, writer, speaker, educator, and mom of 4 boys. We discuss a powerful letter that she wrote to her kids and how she drew inspiration for it. Each new school year, Brooke writes a letter to her boys in order to help encourage them, helping them to push their learning, creativity, and take advantage of improving their minds. We talk about the pandemic and how you can adjust the education of each child because each child learns differently and will need adjustments to how they learn in order to maximize their learning process. Many kids are embarrassed to ask for help, but this is a good opportunity to let your kids know they can ask for help or tell you that the type of learning they’re facing isn’t working for them and that it’s ok to admit that. There are ways to get your kids interested in learning and engaged in their education, such as having them write about subjects in which they actually have an interest. Brooke tells about the things that actually bring joy to your kids, such as working on their talents, learning, and relationships with their friends instead of playing video games or watching TV all day. We discuss words and how much your children’s words can affect the people around them, and then we can also take this same lesson and apply it to ourselves.

Inspiration behind this letter 0:37
The biggest thing we hear from parents right now 7:05
How we got Patty to enjoy writing 13:47
The power our children have 22:04

“In there I also talk about becoming a lifetime learner. This is your kid’s first chance to decide if learning is something that they want to be a part of because this year it will be very easy for them to just slink back in the shadows and no one will notice and they can make every excuse of why it wasn’t successful because there are a million of them. And I think we can flip this around like you said as parents. We can be bothered and frustrated that the school system isn’t completely taking care of our kids’ education like we hoped it would. Or we can also dig in and become lifelong learners. We can figure out what works best for one child and kind of really push that type of education for them.” 5:18

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