Awaking Wonder

Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

By: Sally Clarkson

Narrated by: Sally Clarkson

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

As a parent, you want to send your children into the world with healthy minds and vibrant faith. You want to develop a strong foundation for them. But in our fast-paced, outcome-based, technologically driven society, it's easy to lose sight of the innocence, potential, and uniqueness of each child. Childlike wonder can become lost in the fog of formulas that view children through the distorting lens of social expectations.

Awaking Wonder helps parents unearth the hidden potential of their child's imagination, learning capacity, and ability to engage authentically with the world.

Best-selling author Sally Clarkson will help you reach your child's heart of wonder through the principles that guided her in raising four children, all of whom made it into adulthood with a vibrant faith intact and are now flourishing in creative, high-performing professions. Listen to this book to:

• gain confidence in your role as a God-designed guide and teacher for your children
• help your children awaken to the wonder all around them
• develop healthy minds that can stand up against societal norms, providing them with a life-giving education and a love for learning

©2020 Sally Clarkson (P)2020 eChristian

Must heard!

This audiobook brings first time homeschoolers mom or veteran homeschool mom peace that the most important thing is relationship.

Inspired

I wish I had listened to this book several years ago; if it had been available! It would have been perfect for a beginner, or even a seasoned homeschooler in need of encouragement. I was full of doubts, questions and lacking support when I started, and I ended up quitting. I regret that we stopped homeschooling. If you are looking to start on this journey or questioning if you should continue, I encourage you to read it or listen to it. It was a wonderful source of encouragement, inspiration and eye opener! Thanks for writing it!

This is a wonderful and inspiring book!

Loved it! It was delightfully filled with jewels that Mrs. Clarkson gives away daily in her podcast. Being well organized Awaking Wonder inspires me to continue some practices in our home while offering practical advice on how to add visionary ideals into our days.

Oh Sally! She’s done it again...

If you’ve not been introduced to Sally before you are in for a treat. This book has been so encouraging and helpful for me - not having a Christian example of being a mother and not a clear picture of how, what, where to create wonder, but a great desire to do so. I love getting a clearer picture into their life and home: what it looks like to inspire and create an atmosphere of wonder. Primarily this book is scripturally grounded and Sally gives great insight and wisdom on how to create a wonder filled home that follows Jesus.

Rich Encouragement

Thank you Sally for opening up your story and letting us see the years of family life that you walked through faithfully. Your ideas and example are so helpful and encouraging. I loved hearing you personally read this, and your calm warm voice added something special to the words I know you thoughtfully crafted. As a mother just beginning the home school journey, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing what you’ve learned over the years.

Loved this Book

This book has given me the confidence to homeschool the way I believe God has designed it. I appreciate everything Sally said! My only critique is that I wish she would have said it faster 😆 I had to turn the speed up because she speaks very soft and very slow 😆 besides that excellent!!!

Wonderful!

What a wonder-filled treatise for a child’s heart! Loved it so much! Thankful, thankful!

so inspirational and insightful

I really found her story of how they raised thier children in the faith and love of God. using literature to inspire creativity and letting each child grow and develop at thier own pace and overcome what main stream would consider a defect in one of her children. I liver her honesty in talking about her struggles and pitfalls as well overcoming those.

Encouragement for even seasoned homeschool mothers

I don’t know if I’d consider myself seasoned: I’m in my 5th year of homeschooling. I’ve recently hit a wall of discouragement, having thrown our regular curriculum somewhat to the side, except for math, and focused so much more on reading fantastic tales. I think it’s important to note that in my 11 years of parenting, I have resisted reading Sally Clarkson out of an overwhelming sense of inadequacy every time I catch a whiff of her flowery writing style— what a fool I’ve been to have stayed away!
What a Holy Spirit moment to have begun this book in the season of life I’m in, and to have it be THIS book of all of Sally’s books. I am so grateful for it.

Awaking Wonder was a balm to my home educator soul, and a balm to my mothering heart to hear the things which stirred me and my husband in the very first place to consider educating our children at home. What a boost and a happy retreat this book has been, especially to hear Sally’s own voice.
Thank you Sally, for this book. And now to discover the rest of your writing! -C. Svellinger

Sally is an inspiration. All Christian parents need to read her book!

Thank you for your encouragement to me on our journey of raising wonder-filled, God-fearing, culture changers. This book was incredible. It left such a good impression and I so enjoyed listening, that I purchased a copy and started highlighting and copying down my favorite quotes!
Did you KNOW you could inspire one so?
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