Mother Culture Plans 2025 | Part 1| Homemaking, Homeschooling, Books, etc.
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- What goals do you have for the upcoming year?
Today, we're talking about my homemaking, homeschooling, and personal goals for 2025. This is a chatty video where I share my thought process of planning my year out, and I'll share my "finalized" booklist for the year in Part 2. Join me as we head into 2025 with intentionality and focus!
I love Karen Anderola's idea of Mother Culture. Her book Mother Culture is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Regarding keeping your space clean, we add it into our evening rhythms. Cleaning up is step 1 of our evening routine. Each child gets assigned a developmentally appropriate cleaning task and their day doesn’t “end” until it’s done. If they run out of time, the items left out get put in the basement for the rest of the week. It’s served us well and helps teach them personal responsibility :)
I so resonate with your home goals, we don’t have a homeschool room but tidying up our dining table after school and keeping our school cupboard tidy id on my goal list too. Really loving your channel. A friend recommended it to me and I’m so glad she did. Sending blessings from Australia! From one homeschool Mama of 3 😊 Tiffany
I spent the day cleaning our school room and listened to this video on and off- I was nodding my head along with you as I picked up random bits of paper all over my floor and organized our pencils yet again. My kids also struggle with putting books away properly and I can't seem to keep a system going. they end up stacking them horizontally on top of the books- though at least its usually the correct shelf! I really fell off the wagon with reading this past summer and had a horrendous start back to school that really shook me and made me re-think homeschooling altogether. I am restarting this upcoming week and treating it like a fresh blank slate. I also got a non smart phone (from Tech Less) for Christmas so I am excited to see how that helps with stewarding my time.
Girl, I feel ya on the kids stacking the books sideways instead of putting them away like they should. It gets me every time! Totally there with you picking up all the pencils and reorganizing the school cart. 😂
Oooh your new phone sounds great, please update me in the future! I usually have my as essentially a dumb phone, with all apps removed and un-downloadable, but I took a break from that over the holidays and I need to get back to it!
Hey, I'm glad your kids usually pick the right shelf at least, ha!
I'm so sorry about the rough start to your homeschool year. I've 1000% had moments where I feel the same way. A clean school room and the mindset of a clean slate sound like a good plan. Praying blessings of your fresh start. 💛
@@AHeartForHomeEducation I will definitely update! I was so nervous. My husband got it for me, set it up, and is really encouraging to me with it. I am for sure excited to reduce my screen time but I am hoping it helps with my chronic anxiety more than anything.
I look forward to your videos so much-they always leave me feeling so inspired! After watching how beautifully and thoughtfully you organized your mother binder, I was motivated to start my own, and this video is just as impactful. I've been reflecting on my intentions for the next year, and this has really helped me organize and clarify my thoughts. Thank you, America, for stepping outside your comfort zone and embracing the challenge of embarking on this YT journey, as you mentioned-it’s truly inspiring. I especially love hearing about the books you're reading. I'm brand new to both the classical world and motherhood (my son is 3 years old), so the knowledge I’m gaining from your channel is invaluable. Thank you for everything you share!
This comment is so meaningful and encouraging to me. Thank you for sharing your kind words with me. I'm so thankful that this work has been useful to others in even some small way. Thank you for sharing!
Hi America. I've been very much enjoying and looking forward to watching your videos! And thank you for sharing your story of how you got started. I've been tossing around the idea of making videos about herbalism and holistic health + mother culture and you're inspiring me to at least start playing around with content-making. Part of me feels like, who wants to hear what I'm learning about??? But I love hearing what you are learning about and inspired by!
I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one who can't keep their homeschool room from devolving into chaos.
Re watercoloring painting: for the last couple of years, my kiddos and I have each been doing a thumbnail watercolor painting every day, for the month of January, and it definitely helps get us out of the January homeschool doldrums! : )
@@Denisemoriba sounds like your videos would be amazing. I’d definitely watch, let me know when you get started!
I loved hearing the story behind your name!!
You have no idea what a blessing your videos are to me! I have been searching for years to find helpful content that aligns on homeschool, Christian, and personal values. I so look forward to your videos!
I started writing down every book I read in a moleskin notebook about 13 years ago and it’s the most fun record of my reading life. What I read in my early 20’s is SO different than in my mid thirties 😂
In 2012 I read the entire Pretty Little Liars series, at the beginning of 2025 I’m almost through Don Quixote. Oh how times have changed but I love to see it.
I really recommend a notebook just for logging what you have read.
The chokehold that series had on me and my cousin! I love the growth trajectory we have all been on! Where you start is not where you will end!
I so read all of the PLL series, too LOL! I absolutely love this idea. I think I will start one and I can go back a couple years and record what I remember/wrote down of those years of reading and maybe catalogue my entire thirties! Great idea!
We homeschool at our dining room table and we also eat all of our meals there. We have to pick up a little to have lunch and then we clean up all the way right before our Quiet Time at 2pm. All of our art supplies and educational toys are stored near our table. I TRY to have the kids put things away to be able to get another toy or thing out to cut down on how much is out at once. 🤷🏻♀️
That's a good strategy! I'm so grateful for our homeschool space but I think having it at the dinner table would force us to clean up completely and I'm kind of envious of that kind of deadline forcing me to get it done haha! I like the idea of doing a full clean up before quiet time and I think that's the route I'll go!
Blessed New Year! The Lord is putting it on my heart to work on self control over my speech and emotional reactions. I also need to work on something creative done with my hands including knitting and writing more. We as humans have the gift of creating that The Creator endowed us with and I know I need to enter into that more this year. Thank you for sharing this and I look forward to part two :) -Kat
Wonderful reminder to keep creating as image-bearers! Thank you and Blessed New Year to you as well, Kat!
Love the story of how you got your name. I’ve wondered about it. Love it!
Self control is what I’ve been working on the past couple of months so I’m keeping that, I need to keep focusing on it! I like the ideas of picking a virtue also.
Enjoyed seeing how you plan all of these things out. Going to check out some of the books you mentioned.
I’d love a video on what y’all have done and like for history and science. Those are two subjects I research and research over and over.
Thanks for another great video. Blessings over your 2025!🎉
Yessss, I think I'm carrying self-control into next year as a focus as well. There's been growth but there's still a ways to go (probably til the Lord calls me home!).
I'm glad you enjoyed the name story haha
Thank you for the video idea and for the encouragement 💞
Thanks for the encouragement to not forget myself in my planning. We are taking one more week, so I will be adding in some mother culture planning.
Two things that have worked for my children in keeping our space tidy are: ten minute tidy times with fun music and countdown timer and a chore jar. I look at the space and write down everything that needs to be done on slips of paper. I also add fun or silly things like hug mommy, get a treat, run around the yard, swing six times etc. Then, I place folded pieces of paper in jar and we get to work. They like it!!
Hi America,
I found you through your CMEC video, but then I watched your video about your homeschool plans for the upcoming year I was so happy I found you! I have put together my own curriculum inspired by Charlotte Mason, classical education, literature based curriculums like Sonlight, and just my own goals for my family. My curriculum turned out very similarly to yours and, although I was already excited about my plans, it gave me a boost of confidence to know that someone out there came to similar conclusions.
I plan to do devotional reading throughout the year, starting with Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Eliot. I also plan to read Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill. This book has a daily piece of classical music and a short exerpt about it. I think I am going to love it!
Here are some of my video suggestions:
-one of the reasons I love your channel is because you have a very peaceful, calming presence. Maybe you could make a video about how you cultivate a peaceful atmosphere in your home?
-you are a little ahead of me in the mothering journey. My kids are 6, 4, and 1. Do you have any advice for enjoying the little years and making the most of them?
Yes, I love hearing that others are doing something similar as well, because it makes me feel like I've found a solid path that others have deemed good and trustworthy! Thanks for sharing!
It is crazy that you brought up Elisabeth Elliot because I was listening to a message by her earlier called "Keeping a Quiet Heart" and I really felt the nudge of the Holy Spirit that I need to pursue a quiet heart this coming year. And then the devotion my husband read for the family at breakfast had the same idea of quiet, and now you've shared the Elisabeth Elliot devotional with the same name that I had no idea existed. Obviously the Lord is trying to get my attention! I just purchased the devotional! Looking into the other one as well because it sounds really enjoyable! Thanks for the recommendations 😄
@@carlissashevalier8902 This is so helpful (and kind, and encouraging!), thank you so much for the ideas!
The book of Clemency Burton-Hill is great. It’s such an enrichment in my opinion. I’m a pianist but have learned many things from that book.
@@AHeartForHomeEducation I think you will really like it!
The school room is where my kids feel the most comfortable crafting and drawing. I don’t want to blowout the flame of creativity but sometimes it is overwhelming. I made a couple drawers and put the kids names on the bins so they have a place for their things and can independently place their “things” in their drawer bins. I also put their names where they can put their supplies in other little places in the room. It sort of has helped 😅
I love the idea of evaluating how things went at the end of the week. I want to do that more this year. I’m excited for you to read the rest of the Anne books. There’s a lot I admired about Anne as an adult. I need to re-read them soon now that I’m a mom and see what I can glean from her. I also recommend LM Montgomery’s The Blue Castle. It was such a fun read.
Your videos are so encouraging and you are one if my favorite channels!
I would love to hear any thoughts on anger in homeschool. I struggle and loose my temper sometimes and I just don't want to be like this but it keeps happening and I am just praying and asking dor help. Woyld live to know if you have any suggestions on how to be free from anger.
If you haven't read Evidence Not Seen, I highly recommend. Its a beautiful and humbling missionary story from WW2.
I second this! So good!!
I'm already reading this right now! It's been on my TBR for some time so I'm getting to it first this year. I'm extra excited now that you two are recommending it! 😇
I have 5 children in the home- 9,4,3,2 and 6 months
We do multiple resets throughout the day, I’m always asking for a one minute pass to pick up what we’re not playing with animate.
It’s basically when I see it and they are close or in the way somewhere I give them one quick task.
If I’m doing a stationary task and children come ask to help me, I make them runners and I make a visual pass at the room and have them run items to the room they belong in.
I can have my oldest homeschooled child complete work in one space and love with me if she needs help or just be in the center of the action so I’m there to listen
We do not have a distraction free zone 100% of our ikmeschool day but it helps to have the option to bounce to a household task while I’m teaching and cleaning as we go
Love this idea, thank you for sharing!
Because homeschooling offers so much freedom, I get paralyzed by the options. I would love to know what things you teach that are "beyond" or "outside" the usual school fare.
Agreed, there are so many options!
The Paprika app was such a game changer for me for recipe organization. Highly recommend!
I have my kids clean while I make lunch, and I put away subject by subject as we go
That's a great idea! I usually put away each subject, but it's the crafts and toys that get crazy and the "I'm still playing with/working on that" haha 🤦♀
@ those are my kids domain while I make lunch 🙂
I loved this video! Do you find it hard to have a personal planner & a homeschool planner? Usually I have a notebook that I have through out the year that I write all my goals and plans in but I wonder if it would be nice to have a planner to check in regularly.
Thank you for sharing sacred seasons! We are newly orthodox so I think a book like this would be so helpful in tying in the liturgical calendar!
I really like having a full "life" planner, and I don't do much homeschool planning in it. I do all of my nitty-gritty, detail planning in my logbook. I keep anything homeschool-related very broad and general in my daily planner.
Yes, I think you'd like Sacred Seasons as I think it expounds on a lot of ancient church liturgical practices!
I’ve seen a few like Blessed is She, too many to pick! I’d love one that adds feasts days and the liturgical calendar
@@hannahhensley8497 Oooh that sounds so cool! I'd love to have those in my calendar!
You mentioned to ask questions 😊 What is drawing you to Classical Education?
My favorite of the Anne of Green Gables series is Rilla of Ingleside about WWI. I also love The Blue Castle also by Lucy Maude Montgomery.
You're the second person to recommend The Blue Castle to me! I'm looking forward to all of this LM Montgomery reading this year!
The crafting! Yes!!! It is a mess! The tiny pieces of paper everywhere constantly. And they treasure their creations so they don't want to throw anything away! I HEAR YOU!
Where did you get your planner
I've been researching classical education too recently, have you read Consider This by Karen Glass? It does a wonderful job of showing how much CM and Classical have in common
I love the story of how you were named. 😊My name is Jerilyn and people always think its a weird name and can’t remember it very well. 😂
Haha, it's a blessing and a...complication at times haha!