Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

Welcome to Episode 43. Jennifer Pepito and good friend Rachel Kovac have an engaging and light conversation about the joy and ease of experimenting and creating family rhythm. Rachel brings a beautiful perspective on the opportunities provided by homeschooling and the fun of figuring out a family rhythm.  We can experiment, mix it up, find what brings us joy, vary it by seasons, and still have an adherence to a family rule for the sake of restoration, connection, and wholeness. In all of this, let's dream big about what family, motherhood, and our personal lives might look like.    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!!   In this episode– Motherhood and parenting, even your personal life, is a one time opportunity, so don't be afraid to dream big  Sometimes our self-identities are limiting  Young children need stability and rythm not loads of choices  Judging others steals joy, hurts community, and negatively impacts our ability to learn, enjoy, and build our family vision Don't be afraid to experiment and figure out what works best for your family You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Rachel Kovac here- Rachel's Instagram Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

In our family, Emelie's journey with anorexia was the first indicator that having a Family Rule did not create a 1+1=2 journey. In some seasons, your family rules, and the boundaries and stability we put into place to foster godly, joy filled children will look like it's failing. But is the family rule failing, or is God too good to allow "goodness" to replace "holiness".  Goodness is simply good behaviour, holiness is when we've allowed ourselves to be sanctified from the inside out, nothing hidden, nothing broken.  Episode 42 is an incredible conversation between Jennifer and Emelie about what happens when a family rule seems to fail. Listen to the end for a chance to participate in a Restoration Home and Peaceful Press Competition and the chance to win 1 year of the Peaceful Loop and a $50 Gift Card.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Press Cookbook is available on Amazon!!  The Peaceful Press has beautiful Student Planners to help your students craft order, ryhthm and mindfulness in their daily journey. Check the digital versions out at the Peaceful Press or order printed copies from Amazon.  In this episode: A family rule is about your faithfulness to what God has called you to create, not controlling the outcome of your family How to embrace the hard seasons of application The Joy of faithfulness  Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito  Family Rule Poster—Follow this link to edit and create your Family Rule Poster in Canva and to enter in the Restoration Family Rule Competition. You will win 1 year in the Peaceful Loop which has monthly calls with Jennifer and a habits and community building group, and $50 to the Peaceful Press Shop.  The Poster must contain the Peaceful Press Website and the Restoration Home Logo Submit the Canva link to your design to hello@thepeacefulpress.com subject line "Family Rule Poster". All submissions must be received by 8/25/2023 Submissions will be voted on in the private Peaceful Press Facebook Group and posted to Instagram.  You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Have you ever wondered what makes a great family? We have too. It's easy to wonder who has the secret, or what formula produces a happy, holy family. But maybe it isn't like that, maybe parenting is many paths to creating connected families. Maybe it's simple.  Join Jennifer and Ginny Yurich of the podcast and movement 1000 Hours Outside for an incredible discussion about creating family rule around who you are as individuals and the unique dreams and identity that God has placed in you. We're not looking for a secret sauce, but authenticity, joy, and centred self of family identity that rests in who God made us to be rather than trying to control the outcomes.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!!   In this episode– It is okay to have standards and to parent with personality Embracing your unique likes, dislikes, and the things you enjoy when creating your family vision As your children grow older there is a beauty in learning to accomodate their lives and becoming We are not searching for perfection but excellence, and in that process you are who your children need Check out Ginny Yurich's newest book coming in November Until the Streetlights Come On You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Ginny Yurich here- Ginny's Instagram and at her website  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Do you ever have golden dreams for how your homeschool day will go, but feel like you're constantly ending it weary and disappointed in another day that was overwhelming, chaotic, too full, or simply lacked any sort of order? If you can resonate with any of that, then episode 40 is perfect for you. Jennifer takes you through planning a daily rhythm and highlights resources, systems, ideas, and strategies for making sure that we feel less steamrolled at the end of the day. Yet, sometimes no matter how meticulously we planned, a day still takes us. On those days we learn to forgive ourselves, our children, our spouse, maybe a friend or parent and accept the grace on offer in Christ to pick up and start afresh tomorrow.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here! Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason style education for Autumn 2023, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom! In this episode: Jennifer breaks down morning time How to identify essentials and non-essentials in your day  The beauty of self-forgiveness for starting fresh  Setting up our day so we have time to enjoy our children We don't need to overload our children with "school" for them to be successful Episode 32 Resources  The Chore and Routine Cards  A Peaceful Path to a Living Education  The Connection Challenge  The Homeschool Planner The Family Vision Worksheet The Peaceful Life Workshop You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Building a rule of life is about the practical culmination of the last 10 months into a vision board for how to take what you're learning, and make it your own. A huge part of the ongoing struggle we face in doing so is comparison and becoming sidetracked by other people's "spaces". Or maybe you're building a family vision and you're not being sidetracked by other people, but you are making a plan that is contained and measured by your limitations, fears, and vows. In doing so, are you ignoring the space and vision that God wants to assign to you in order to grow, heal, broaden, and restore?  In Ep. 39, Heather MacFadyen of the Don't Mom Alone Podcast joins Jennifer for the second part of how to build a rule for you and your family. The conversation is so beautiful as both women share experiences from their past, and remember how God has shown up give them not just a vision but one where God remains firmy at the centre.   Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!!   In this episode– A family rule is something can be "bendy" but unbroken. So, it's not something you get to pick and choose when it applies but something you follow with consistency through changing seasons. Humility is learning to live with authority in your God given space With older children, you neither bend your will to theirs, or their will to yours, but you continue faithfully trusting God in the journey he is taking them on.  Check out Heather's new book Right Where You Belong You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Heather MacFadyen here- Instagram and at her website  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

For the last 9 months of the Restoration Home Podcast, we have explored the disciplines of hospitality, order, prayer, stability and much more. We have loved having these conversations and understanding the way embracing them through enjoyment of God rather than religion can encourage restoration in our lives, our families and into our community. But with all this information, where do we go next?  Join Jennifer and Emelie for the beginning of a four part series on the "how to" of creating a family rule. This is one of my favourite conversations as we talked about our early days of creating a famiy vision and how to build and hold onto one in the midst of changing and uncontrollable disruption.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Press Cookbook is available on Amazon!!  The Peaceful Press has beautiful Student Planners to help your students craft order, ryhthm and mindfulness in their daily journey. Check the digital versions out at the Peaceful Press or order printed copies from Amazon.  In this episode: What do you want your children to remember about your home Working backwards on your vision to move forward  Adjusting vision to the changing times Always remaining faithful to what we are called to do, even in the absence of fruit. The difference between a Personal Rule and a Family Rule.   Join Jennifer Pepito in the Peaceful Life Workshop for a great opportunity to access high value vision planning for free. (Free Code is in the podcast!)  The Peaceful Press Planner by Jennifer Pepito or get the print copy on Amazon Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito  You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.  

Whether your child is 3, 5, 9, 13 or 17, you are probably already confronted with, "But Sally gets to stay up late, eat this, do that, go here, fill in the blank." And I'm sure your response has ranged across permissive, mature, and full on authoritarian as you wage the war of parenthood against the world to raise children whose young and growing minds are protected, nurtured, strengthened and prepared to thrive in every aspect of their lives. But in this fight to raise Godly children, are you making your children the enemy?  Episode 37 is an incredible conversation between Jennifer and Wendy of the Fresh Start Family about creating order through clear boundaries, consistent follow through, empathy, kindness, and humility.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!!   In this episode– Raising children with order, follow through, kindness, and agency  Firmness within connection is nurturing  Know your "why" It's okay to explain the "why" behind the rule Are you trying to instill character in your children that you haven't developed in yourself?  Yes, you can be radically different from the culture around you and that's okay. You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Wendy Snyder here- Wendy's Instagram and at her website  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Two episodes ago, Jennifer and Emelie talked about how Order has become something often associated with control. Control often comes from a broken place, as we try to make our world and environment safe, familiar, and unchanging. Or if our parents were orderly, bordering on control, we shy away from order because it felt like manipulation and fear.  But Godly order is worship of an orderly God.  In this episode, Emelie and Jennifer hit all sorts of delicious topics like what is patriarchy, matriarchy? How has control of what life should look like,  instead of order that tends our garden, hurt our joy and stability. Finally, before you assume it's a patriarchy, are you using a matriarchy to uphold a patriarchy? At the end of the day the only place we can create an abundance of order is when we start tending to the intimate places of our heart.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Press Cookbook is available on Amazon!!  The Peaceful Press has beautiful Student Planners to help your students craft order, ryhthm and mindfulness in their daily journey. Check the digital versions out at the Peaceful Press or order printed copies from Amazon.  In this episode: Old Order isn't always Godly Order Are you dealing with a patriarchy or a matriarchy Why you and your children need your husband Creating order as worship  Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  The Peaceful Press Planner by Jennifer Pepito or get the print copy on Amazon.  You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links. You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Join Jennifer and Mary DeMuth author of Love, Pray Listen, as they talk about how our internal order has more to do with our children's order than our ability to manage well or enforce outward order. This grows with a willingness to pursue our identity in Christ and let him be our all in all, so that when the day comes, and our children leave the nest and begin making their own decisions, we aren't caught in the trap of believing we can control or "order" their lives. Instead, we can Love, Pray and Listen. Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!!   In this episode– When we can calm ourselves and be orderly in our emotions, self-regulation, we create order in our homes and the lives of our children Take a sabbath, a life giving day Where is your real joy coming from Practicing benevolent detachment: your role shifts as your children become adults Have to be able to grieve so you can find your joy and identity in the only one who is Good Extremes can wreck our children’s internal order because extremes are the manifestations of our internal disorder. Releasing control in the process of creating order  Your identity is more than "mother", finding Christ at the centre through motherhood and beyond.  Mary DeMuth has created a free resource with 52 prayers for your adult children.  You can find all of Mary's books here. You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Mary DeMuth here- Mary's Instagram and at her website  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Have you seen something or experienced the corruption of a godly principle, virtue, or idea that created a lot of pain in your life? Maybe it affected a friend of family member. Is it a pain that is still sitting with you and making it hard to find balance and order in certain areas of your life?  In this episode, Emelie and Jennifer introduce the discipline of order to talk about the ways we hold on and react to past perversions of holy virtues. They discuss the role of humility and repentance in bringing restoration to generations so as families and communities we can embrace order from a place of wholeness not control. Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Press Cookbook is available on Amazon!!  Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education for Autumn 2023, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!   In this episode: What is order Decorrupting holy value through forgiveness, humility, and repentance  The role of mothers in creating order  Learning to build a foundation on connection not rules  Order also comes when we examine our hearts and motivations  Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge  Morthering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito  You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links. You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources.  Some Amazon Affiliate Links.