Our all-new FREE Guide to help you transform your mornings with one simple addition, and a week's worth of free activity ideas to get you started (with photo examples!).
Your kids wake up with the energy of 1,000 suns. ☀️
You.... not so much.
By the time everyone is ready for second breakfast, you’re only just finishing that cup of coffee.
There’s already been 100 questions (thank goodness for Alexa or Google to take care of a few of them, at least). You’ve heard: “Mom, what are we doing today?” at least three times. Someone wants to paint... someone else has dumped out two toy bins... and you have no idea how to wrangle in the chaos (let alone actually USE all of their energy for a good purpose!).
Our NEW, FREE Guide will help you make an extremely simple shift in your daily routines that will have a transformative effect on how your homeschool mornings run and feel.
You are giving your kids a chance to harness all of that curious and creative energy for good. No more yelling out “Please stop putting X on your little brother/the dog/your face” before you’ve finished that first cup of joe (hopefully — no guarantees).
The time immediately after this morning invitation engagement will be so much calmer and connected, making it a great time to connect as a family, keep everyone focused to have breakfast together or talk about the days’ plans, have a family read aloud time, work together on a family clean-up time, etc.
By “turning on” that creativity in a focused way, it’s a more natural transition to learning experiences later in the day — even if they’re not directly related! Any morning invitation that encourages your child to be creative, curious, engage their senses, or problem solve is fostering learning skills! This helps your child focus more intently on whatever learning activities you planned for the day later on (or the ones that just naturally emerge).
All ages can bond together! This is a beautiful side effect of the morning invitation — if you have multiple ages that you’re homeschooling, this is a perfect time for all of them to come together as a group, yet still engage in individual ways. You can keep things similar (give them the same art supplies, for example), yet prompt them to create different/more appropriately challenged things (no expectations for the younger ones, and a specific prompt for older ones, for example). Win win win!
What if I’m not a homeschooler - can I still use this?
Definitely! While you may not have time to implement these strategies in the morning, a lot of families have a pocket of time in the afternoon/evening that feels just as chaotic as mornings (AKA “the witching hour”). These strategies and ideas will support you at any time of the day!
What ages of kiddos does this support?
This is ideal for kids around ages 2-12, but each family will be unique in their needs. We often find that even our teens and adults in the home can’t stay away from the invitation to be still and create/play/engage.
I already bought your Morning Invitation Calendar - does this help me?
Absolutely, it’s a must-get. This is like the How-To for implementing the ideas. They go hand in hand!
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