The Well-Read Mother with Jennifer Pepito

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The best kind of mentor for motherhood is a real life one, but sometimes that’s just not possible. Fortunately, we’ve had Titus 2 examples and the wisdom of other trusted women in our lives because we’ve always surrounded ourselves with good books. Voices of encouragement, discipleship, and practical help have rung out to us from these pages and have helped shape our day-to-day faithfulness to our husbands, our children, our ministry commitments, our walk with the Lord…pretty much every area of our lives!

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In today’s episode, we’re chatting with Jennifer Pepito, author of Mothering By the Book: the Power in Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy. We discuss the importance of reading aloud to your kids, making time for personal reading in the busyness of our day, and options for the mom who isn’t a reader.

“When we can look in stories and see inspiration, whether it’s from fiction or biography, and see how others have shown tenacity to keep doing the right thing, it can empower us to keep doing the right thing even when we do have difficulties as a family.”
Jennifer Pepito

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“God is constantly calling out the person we are becoming, not the person we are right now.”
Jamie Erickson

Mentioned in this episode:

A Time for Remembering by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hero Education by Oliver DeMille
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Holy Hygge by Jamie Erickson

“A lot of our perspective on life, our ability to relate to others, our ability to see something through to the end, or even our ability to see cause and effect comes from our observation of other people.”
Jennifer Pepito

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