The Greta Eskridge Podcast

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Home School Q & A with - me! Greta Eskridge Sep 03, 2024

Show notes

I am so excited to share the final episode of my “Back to Home School” series with you today. (Don’t worry, though, there will be other home school episodes in the future. They’ll just be intermingled with other topics.) In this episode I am diving into some of the home schooling questions you asked me on Instagram. I couldn’t answer them all, but I covered quite a few. And I promise to come back and answer more some time soon!

Here are links to some of the things I mentioned in this episode.

I hope you find them helpful!

Want to have me speak at your event, conference, church, for your home school group, womens’ retreat or in some other capacity, get more information about booking me here

Find my Home School 101 Story Series on Instagram here

Find all the home school articles on my blog here

I talk about home schooling in high school and in college in episode 24. Listen to it here

Learn more about high school transcripts here

Learn more about Hamborg Academy of Art, in person and online art classes from one of our favorite art teachers here

Learn more about home schooling and dyslexia in episode 25. Listen here

Find Wild and Free bundles here

Find Beautiful Feet Books curriculum guides here (they’re my absolute favorite!)

Find Ambleside Online booklists here

Read my book Adventuring Together to get fun back to school traditions (and lots of other ones as well) Get your copy here

Give your kids a back to school copy of 100 Days of Adventure and dream up a bunch of fun adventures you can do together in the coming year. Get your copy here

Read my blog post, The Early Years, here

Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my show! I appreciate each one of you.

Keep chasing joy!

Greta

Home Schooling is Good News! With Carole Joy Seid Aug 27, 2024

Show notes

What a treat to have one of my earliest home school mentors on the podcast today. This is a powerful episode where we hear how Carole met God and how He led her to home schooling, which she initially thought was absolute insanity! Carole and I talk about the early days of home schooling when it wasn’t legal or illegal and so different than it is now.

Hear how Carole’s son JJ has joined her in sharing the message of home schooling. What a dream that is! She shares books galore too. My favorite kind of episode!

Carole Joy Seid is a joy indeed and you are going to love the encouragement and wisdom she brings from speaking on home schooling for 30 + years.

Here are the resources Carole recommends in this episode:

Read and learn about home schooling’s pioneers:

John Holt

Dr. Raymond Moore

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Read their books:

How Children Learn by John Holt

Better Late Than Early by Dr. Raymond Moore

For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

For the Family’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Here are the other books Carole recommends in this episode:

The Common Rule—Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Theology of the Body for Beginners

The Least of These My Brothers

Father Arseny—priest, prisoner and spiritual father

Little Britches series

Where to find Carole:

Her website here

Her seminars here

Her podcast here

Her Instagram account here

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode:

“God doesn’t waste a thing.” GE

“Home schooling was the farthest thing from my mind.” CJS

“Home schooling is a huge liberty, and we don’t want to take it for granted.” CJS

“It’s so thrilling to see the next generation of home schoolers carrying out the way of living that is so rich and blessed.” CJS

“Sharing the message of home schooling has been the joy of my life.” CJS

“The very first home school conference I ever attended was with Carole Joy Seid and it was absolutely transformational.” GE

“You can home school with a bible, a library card and a math book.” CJS

“High school and college is where your child’s theology makes up its mind.” CJS

“If you’re tired, do something fresh and give yourself a grace package. Because that is what God gives to us.” CJS

“Your goal is to get shining eyes!” CJS

“The gift of home schooling for me has been all about freedom. The freedom to pursue education in the way that works best for our family, the way that works best for each kid and the way that works best for me as a teacher.” GE

“Be the expert on your child.” CJS

“Never stop reading out loud to your children.” CJS

“The gospel needs to permeate everything you do.” CJS

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Thank you for listening and being part of my team.

I love you guys!

Greta

Becoming Home Schoolers with Monica Swanson Aug 20, 2024

Show notes

This is the third episode in my “Back to Home School” series and it is a great one! In this episode I got to talk all things home schooling with my friend, and fellow Christian Parenting podcast host, Monica Swanson.

Monica is a mom to four boys and lives on the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. Monica home schooled all her boys, 3 of which have graduated, and is still home schooling her last one. She recently wrote a book called Becoming Home Schoolers, sharing the story of their home schooling journey, along with tons of other helpful ideas, information and inspiration. Monica and I had the best time talking together. You’re going to love our conversation and all the stories we tell. You’ll feel like you’re just hanging out with 2 of your friends. Come join the fun!

Places to find Monica:

Her website her

Her podcast here

Her Instagram account here

Her books here, here, here and here!

Here are some of my favorite quotes from this episode:

“Home school kids have more time to pursue their passions.” Monica Swanson

“Home schoolers are prepared for the real world.” Monica Swanson

“The number one reason we chose to home school is because I wanted learning about God, praying together, and reading the Bible together to be a part of their school experience because that is the most important thing you’ll ever learn.” Greta Eskridge

“There is no such thing as a neutral education.” Monica Swanson

“Home schoolers are critical thinkers, they’re learners, they’re readers, and they know how to figure things out. Not every home schooler, of course. But a lot of them!” Greta Eskridge

“It’s so tempting to have a whole curriculum for your 3 year old but if you just live life with your 3 year old and have him be a part of it, what you’re creating is a lifelong learner because you’re showing them that learning is happening all the time.” Greta Eskridge

“Sometimes we forget how important it is to enjoy our kids. We get so caught up in what we feel like we have to do that we forget to enjoy our time with them or to enjoy them.” Greta Eskridge

“The best is yet to come! The late teen and young adult years are so fun and it is the best reward.” Monica Swanson

“It is painful joy to watch our kids fly. We’re excited for them and we have joy for them but there is pain there because things are changing.” Greta Eskridge

“The home school lifestyle is not just a way to educate your kids but a way to get to know them and be involved in their lives.” Monica Swanson

Home Schooling and Dyslexia with Carrie De Fransisco Aug 13, 2024

Show notes

What a treat to introduce you to my friend, a person who has poured encouragement and support and wisdom into me, Carrie De Francisco. Carrie is a mom to 2 homeschool graduates, she is a treasured voice in the home school community through her podcast, her books, her speaking engagements and her amazing videos on Instagram. She also provides encouragement for the moms of differently abled learners and especially for moms of dyslexic learners. The bottom line is Carrie will encourage you today, wherever you are on your home school journey.

This episode is full of a lot of helpful and practical tips for families that are home schooling dyslexic learners.

Here they are:

*Have your child teach someone else something, or explain something they love

*Spend way more time on your child’s gifts and talents than on the things they’re struggling with!

*Use the dyslexic font for your computer

*Use speech to text because it is not cheating!

*Have your child read aloud the paragraph they wrote using speech to text and then help them edit as they read it aloud

*Use Grammarly –its your writing tutor!

*Use audio books (Audible, Hoopla, Libby are 3 great ones!)

*This article breaks down a bunch of audio book options. Read it here.

*Math U See is Carrie’s favorite math curriculum

*Use colored markers, drawings or symbols to help them differentiate the words they’re learning and/or memorizing.

Places to find Carrie:

Her website here

Her podcast here

Her books here here and here

Her Instagram account here

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode:

*“Homeschool kids don’t just turn out OK. They can really flourish, even if it’s hard in the middle.” GE

*“Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean we’re doing something wrong, or that our home schooling wasn’t working, or that our kids are never going to learn. It just means it’s different. “ CF

*“If your kid has dyslexia or dysgraphia or dyscalculia they are gifted. They are gifted in so many ways. They have so many gifts they are going to be better than OK!” CF

*“The Lord created our kids to be learning machines and we just need to trust the process.” CF

*“God is going to use this. We don’t know how and we don’t know when, but we can trust Him.” GE

*“Listening to books is reading books.” GE

*“According to a study from Harvard, the number one thing that helped kids with dyslexia and dysgraphia be successful was to have at least 1 person in their life who is their cheerleader. At least one person who was their encourager.” CF

*“As their moms, we know they are super smart and super intelligent, they just don’t know it yet and it’s our job to show them.” CF

*For all the things that technology brings that can be problematic, there are also wonderful parts of technology that helps people with things like dyslexia. It can give them an opportunity for success.” GE

*“Spend way more time on your child’s gifts and talents than on the things they’re struggling with!” CF

*“Our culture likes to celebrate success right now, not the long, slow, version of success that some kids achieve.” GE

*“Tell your kids over and over, ‘I love that about you’” CF

Home Schooling from Kindergarten to High School with - me! Aug 06, 2024

Show notes

What a treat to spend the month of August talking all things home school in my new series Back to Home School. As a second-generation home schooler, I have loved home schooling for almost my whole life. Home schooling was an incredible gift to me as a student and now it is an incredible gift to me as a mom who is home schooling her kids. I share a little bit about my own home school journey in this episode and then jump into discussing the joys of home schooling in high school, as well as the early years. I hope you come away with the reminder that you are doing a good job wherever you’re at in your home-schooling journey. And I hope you’ll be inspired to cast a vision for homeschooling from kindergarten all the way through those beautiful high school years.

Here are some of the resources mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about Home School Legal Defense Association here

Home School High School: a Handbook for Christian Education by Carrie De Fransisco

Becoming Home Schoolers: Give Your Kids a Great Education, a Strong Family, and a Life They’ll Thank You For Later by Monica Swanson

Learning Well community with Alicia Hutchinson

Cloud 9 Adventure James Eskridge’s first illustrated book with 1000 Hours Outside

Include these life skills in high school—cooking, travel, finances, home repair, community service, household chores, child care, hospitality, event planning, navigating the doctor’s office, the DMV, filling out forms and paperwork…these are all things they should be learning and doing in high school.

The Early Years a blog post by Greta Eskridge

Home School 101 Instagram highlight by Greta Eskridge

Here are some favorite quotes from this episode:

*”Being home schooled is one of the greatest gifts of my life.” GE

*”Someday your kids will be the ones to say to you, ‘mom, dad, being homeschooled is one of the biggest blessing of my life.” GE

*”There is no perfect educational system.” GE

*”You are your kid’s first teacher.” GE

*”You need to have a vision for your home school journey. You need to have a vision for where you want to end up.” GE

“There are so many reasons to keep home schooling through high school.

Some of my favorites are: freedom, flexibility, so much less social pressure, the ability to have solid biblical truth as part of their studies, and so much more time together in the last years they’re going to be home.” GE

*One thing that holds parents back from wanting to home school their kid in high school is that they think their kids are going to miss out on what they see as really important things. But parents need to ask themselves, “is it important to my kid or is it important to me?’” GE

*”Their high school experience is going to look different than yours because they are home schooled. But different doesn’t mean bad. It just means different.” GE

*”You don’t need much to home school your kids. You can home school with a Bible, a math book and a library card”. Carole Joy Seid

*”Home schooling is best when it is personalized to your family and all the ways you live and learn best.” GE

“Find ways to inject joy into your home school.” GE

Finding Freedom—women and porn addiction with Dr. Joy Skarka Jul 30, 2024

Show notes

In this episode I have the absolute pleasure of talking to Dr. Joy Skarka. Joy is a leader in helping women find freedom and healing from sexual shame with her doctoral work, leading seminars and workshops with Authentic Intimacy, and now is the author of a new book on the topic, Her Freedom Journey—a guide out of porn and shame to authentic intimacy.

In her book, Joy bravely shares her own journey from addiction to freedom. She educates her readers on the way porn use fuels harm, addiction and shame. But she doesn’t leave us there. Instead, she offers so much help and hope to her readers who might be struggling with these issues themselves or want to help someone who is. This book is going to be such an incredible resource to many. It is going to change lives. This episode is full of so many practical tips, encouragement and hope. I am truly honored to introduce you to Dr. Joy today. And I am so proud to share this conversation with you.

Some helpful links from today’s episode:

Get resources from Dr. Joy’s website here

Follow Dr. Joy on Instagram here

Get Dr. Joy’s book, Her Freedom Journey, here

Get more resources on all kinds of sexual issues from Authentic Intimacy here

Hopeful bible verse: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode:

*“Look at all that God has done!” Dr. Joy Skarka

*“Girls use porn too. And girls need to be protected from porn too.” Greta Eskridge

*”If we don’t talk about it for women and they’re secretly struggling, there is just so much more shame and so many more problems down the line.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”Do you know what gave me the courage? Someone else went first. I heard a courageous woman share her story at a college student women’s event. Until that moment, I had never heard a woman admit she struggled with sexual sin. For the first time I realized I wasn’t alone and I wasn’t a total freak for being a woman who struggled with sexual sin.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”Really what I needed was healthier coping mechanisms.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”Not only is sexual sin addictive, but it is damaging to your brain. It reconstructs your neurological pathways and bonds you to the images because God created you for intimacy.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*There is more to it than ‘just stop watching porn’. You have to heal your brain and your body too.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”You were not created for sex, but for intimacy.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”God created us with a longing to be loved and to have intimacy that can only be met through Him. So if we’re turning to these fake things that are trying to give us fake intimacy, we’re always going to come up short and continue to have a longing for more.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”By delighting in Him, you find something that doesn’t just numb the pain, but heals the pain. That’s what God does.” Greta Eskridge

*”The good news is this: we worship a God who redeems and restores our broken sexuality. Not only does God restore the beauty from ashes, but He also restores and renews our brains. We can have hope that even if we have been negatively affected by porn, we can be healed!” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”We worship a God who can restore anything and that’s our hope. God’s power and His healing and His miracles can restore and redeem anybody’s brains.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”The porn industry is purposely creating porn for women. They have a whole branded type of porn, they call it ‘romance porn’. They also have porn to draw in kids because they know if they capture them they’re going to stay with us and be our clients for decades.” Dr. Joy Skarka

*”Satan wants us to stay in that place of shame. He wants us to feel afraid and to feel like we’re cancelled because of the mistakes of our past, the decisions we made, the things that happened to us, even the things that aren’t our fault. He wants us to hide in that shame. And he wants us to stay quiet. But God can use our story when we bring it into the light.” Greta Eskridge

*”The enemy thrives in the darkness and he thrives in the shame. But if we bring it into the light, that’s where the healing happens.” Dr. Joy Skarka

Giving Moms a Vision with Jennifer Pepito Jul 23, 2024

Show notes

My guest today is my real life friend, the incredible Jennifer Pepito. Jen is a mom to 7 and a grandma to 1. She is a homeschooler and has been homeschooling for 26 years! Jen is the creator and founder of The Peaceful Press, an author several books, including her newest one, Habits for a Sacred Home -–9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families. I love many things about Jen, but her approach to motherhood has always inspired me so much. She engages in motherhood with so much intentionality and care and that is really the focus of her new book. Jen also highlights the importance and power we are given in our roles as mothers. Her new book is incredibly empowering and inspiring. I loved hearing more about the women Jen highlighted in her book and learning from their stories and I know you will too!

Some links from today’s episode:

Find Jennifer’s website The Peaceful Press here

Follow Jennifer on Instagram here

Get Jennifer’s book, Habits for a Sacred Home here

Listen to Jennifer’s podcast here

Find out about the homeschooling community Wild and Free here

Find the book The Benedict Option here

Find the book How the Irish Saved Civilization here

Find the book For the Children’s Sake here

Find Tish Oxenreider’s Rule of Life course here

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode:

*As mothers, we are teaching our children to value the natural world. We are teaching our children how to read and how to value living books. Appreciation of art, reading real books, picking up after themselves, having dinner around the table and looking at each other in the eye--these are all classical and practical arts, lost arts, that we are saving as mothers.” Jennifer Pepito

*We as moms are saving our culture with normal, everyday practices we engage in with our families.” Jennifer Pepito

*“There is power in seemingly simple acts like eating dinner at the table with our family every night.” Greta Eskridge

*”So much of what we do as mothers can seem hard in the moment, but when we can recognize how powerful it is and what heroes we are for doing it, it can give us a new perspective and make us feel more empowered by what we’re doing.” Jennifer Pepito

*”The real change starts at home and it starts with moms.” Chris McKenna

*”We are stepping into the lives of our children and making generational impact.” Greta Eskridge

*”It’s so important for moms to have a vision of what they could be like.” Jennifer Pepito

*”The fight to which we have been called is not an easy fight. We are touching the very center of the devil’s power and kingdom, and he hates us intensely and fights hard against us. We have no chance at all of winning in this fight unless we are disciplined soldiers, utterly out-and-out and uncompromising, and men and women of prayer.” Amy Carmichael

*”If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” Corrie ten Boom

“I do not think anything worth having in the spiritual world is easily attained. There is no shortcut to holiness. But there can be a true, humble, loving choice of the soul, and that choice, becoming a habit, will lead it into peace.” Amy Carmichael

Protecting Our Kids from Tricky People with Sara Ernst Jul 16, 2024

Show notes

My guest today is Sara Ernst. Sara is a nature lover, a singer, a musician, an artist, a poet and a writer. She is the whole package! She is a wife and mom too, and lives with her family in Virginia.

A childhood experience with a tricky person, her love of music and wanting to help protect kids all unexpectedly led her to write a song and a book that teaches and equips young children to use their voice to protect themselves. Her book, her music and her work are fantastic and so helpful to many families. You are going to come away with so many practical, helpful tips for keeping your kids safe from tricky people. I am really glad to have Sara on the show today!

Some links from today’s show:

Visit Sara’s website here

Follow Sara on Instagram here

Find Sara’s music here

Find Sara’s book, Shout No! here

Download the Shout No song and coloring sheet here

Find Sara’s book, Poetry for the Wild and Curious Ones, here

Find Greta’s book here

Some of my favorite quotes from today’s episode:

*”Parents don’t want to talk to their kids about tricky people because they want to protect their kid’s innocence. But we have to tell our kids that tricky people exist so we can give them to tools to protect themselves from the tricky people.” Greta Eskridge

*”I wanted to write something gentle yet effective that would equip kids from an early age and would give the words to shout no and run away from tricky people.” Sara Ernst

*”We can react to our experiences by simply moving on, or we can let them fester and turn to bitterness or shame or we can say, “I wish that wouldn’t have happened, but I’m going to do something positive with it now.” Greta Eskridge

*”When we tell our kids not to cross the street without us we don’t go into graphic details about what can happen if they get hit by a car. We just tell them, “you could get hurt” because that is all they need to know. It is the same with giving our kids information about predators. We don’t give them scary information; we give them empowering information.” Greta Eskridge

*”Music is sticky!” Sara Ernst

*“Teach your kids that anyone can be a tricky person, because most abuse happens with people the children know. And teach them how to respond to tricky people.” Sara Ernst

*” We are empowering our kids not making them afraid.” Greta Eskridge

Slow Down and Notice—finding art in nature with Mary Jo Hoffman Jul 09, 2024

Show notes

Today’s episode is extra special to me because I got to talk to Mary Jo Hoffman, someone I have followed online and admired for more than 10 years! Mary Jo is an artist whose art form is taking photographs of found nature on black or white backgrounds. As an avid nature collector myself, I absolutely loved her beautiful art and became a fan instantly.

Mary Jo is a rocket scientist turned artist, blogger, and now author of the book, Still, the Art of Noticing. She married to a James Beard award winning food writer, a mom to 2 kids, and she lives in St. Paul Minnesota.

Mary Jo’s art has made her into a “noticer”. Collecting pieces of nature and photographing them daily has made her slow down and really notice all the beauty there is in the natural world, no matter the season. We have a great discussion about her art and her book and the ways we can help our kids become noticers too, even though they are growing up in a world that doesn’t really celebrate slowing down. I know you’ll come away inspired by this episode. And maybe you and your kids can start a habit of noticing nature and loving the beauty of nature, just like Mary Jo has.

Some links for you from this episode:

To see the art of Lisa Congdon, the artist who was an inspiration for Mary Jo, go here

To learn more about the 72 micro seasons in Japan, go here

Find the Beatrix Potter book here

Find Mary Jo’s book here

Read Mary Jo’s blog here

Follow Mary Jo on Instagram here

Some favorite quotes from this episode:

*“The natural world drew me in first not as a source of beauty to observe, but as an expression of mathematics, and physics: I loved natural shapes for the trial-and-error perfection of their function; I loved seed pods for the ingenuity of their dispersal mechanisms; I loved the algorithms of spirals, saw toothed leaf tips, and the shapes of trees that imitated the shapes of rivers and their tributaries.” Mary Jo Hoffman

* “We don’t value slowing down very much as a culture and we miss out as a result.” Greta Eskridge

*”As the project progressed, so too my definition of seasonality was redefined. I noticed not big sweeping changes in temperature and light, but daily changes. I noticed the exact day the sap began to run. The day the first catkins exploded. The day the lilacs opened. And the day the first orange maple leaf appeared. And I captured it all, one high-resolution image at a time, for ten years. The attentiveness required to make an image a day led to a depth of understanding I had not expected. The more narrow and deep I went, the more my world expanded.” Mary Jo Hoffman

*” Kids don’t know the names of anything in nature anymore. How do we grow tomorrow’s stewards of the environment if the kids don’t have an attachment to it?” Mary Jo Hoffman

*” Learning names of things in nature makes you care about them more. Because then you have a relationship and connection beyond, that’s a pretty flower.” Greta Eskridge

*”How do you raise creative kids? You model it every day.” Mary Jo Hoffman

*”Give your kids space and time for creativity.” Greta Eskridge

*” Part of being a noticer is having childlike wonder.” Mary Jo Hoffman

*” Owning the responsibilities of sharing the awe and wonder of the natural world is one of the duties of being a parent.” Mary Jo Hoffman

*” Look for micro joys in your life!” Mary Jo Hoffman

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Greta

Helping our kids opt into connection with - me! Jul 02, 2024

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Today’s episode is all me. This one really is “The Greta Eskridge Podcast”! I like to have these episodes every month or so, where I get to catch up with you and share whatever is on my heart and mind at the time. Today I’m sharing thoughts on why it is so imperative for us to help our kids not just opt out of social media, gaming, and hours spent on a screen, but to opt into real life! That means opting into real life experiences and real life relationships and real life connections with the world and the people who live here. I share some sobering idea, but also encouragement that this isn’t as difficult as we might think.

I’m also sharing something exciting for you all, my podcast community! For the month of July and August I am inviting you to join me in an online cook club, reading my book Adventuring Together. If you have already read the book, you can join, or if you’re picking it up for the first time, you can join too. We’ll spend the month of July reading the book and then you can join me for a live book club meeting where we’ll chat and you guys can ask questions and it will be a great time! I’ll also be sharing one of my most favorite talks, The Connecting Power of Adventure” online for the first time. And my podcast listeners will have the opportunity to see that too. To take advantage of these opportunities I’m inviting you to join me on Substack. If you aren’t a Substack reader yet, its simply an online platform where writers like me can share our work and create a community with our readers. You can visit my website or my Instagram feed for all the details. I know we’re going to have a lot of fun, and be motivated and inspired to cultivate lasting connection with our kids and this beautiful world we live in!

Important links from today’s episode here:

My favorite herbal blend of tea for sun tea here (I also like to add 2 or 3 bags of decaf black tea to the brew to make it a little stronger)

Find my website and all the book club info here

Find my book, Adventuring Together, here

For more adventurous, connecting ideas, see my children’s book here

Follow me on Instagram here

See Erin Loechner’s book, The Opt Out Family, here

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode:

*”In order to help our kids opt out of social media, video games, endless screen time, and even pornography use, we have to offer them something better!” Greta Eskridge

*”The algorithms are designed to make us want to stay on the screen, to scroll, and to watch for hours. So, we have to offer our kids something better!” Greta Eskridge

* If our only goal is to check a lot of adventures or activities off the list with our kids, but we’re not using those things to build, and cultivate connection with them, then we’re all missing out.” Greta Eskridge

*”Adventure is the vehicle, but connection is the goal.” Greta Eskridge

*” If we consistently offer our kids the opportunity to experience the real world with the people they love to be with, they’ll want to choose that over the false connection, and even the false experiences offered through technology.” Greta Eskridge

*”If people can just have an amazing virtual experience, why would they want to go through the effort, expense and bother of having a real one? Why would they want to have real life friendships, or real life relationships when they can have that with an image on a screen? This is the danger of satisfying your desires in a made up world, where life is easy and you expend no physical or emotional energy.” Greta Eskridge

*”It is critical we create an appetite for real adventure and real experiences and real connection with the world and with it’s people in our kids! They need to experience struggle and hard work and being emotionally connected to others. There is so much at stake here.” Greta Eskridge

*”It imperative that I not only pursue real life connection with my kids, but also teach them how to recognize it and to pursue it themselves.” Greta Eskridge

*“This is more than just a list of things to do with your kids this summer. This is an invitation to you to begin creating connection and relationship with your kids that will stand the test of time.” Greta Eskridge

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