How a Child Understands Story: An Interview with Amanda Faus and Brooke Johnson | Storied Souls
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- Who hasn’t looked out over a sea of young children staring blankly out of the window and wondered if they’re paying attention? Who hasn’t considered explaining the story or the vocabulary to ensure the children really get it? Perhaps we need to reconsider how young children move and understand in God’s so we can answer today’s question: Do my little kids even understand this story?
I’m joined by Mrs. Amanda Faus and Mrs. Brooke Johnson to discuss understanding in the early years by bringing together philosophy and practical realities we all know with a heavy dose of humor and personal story.
Plus, they turn the mic on me and tell me I’m wrong.
Did I mention I called in my real friends for this one?
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Amanda Faus is a joyful homeschooling mother of five. Together with her husband, Patrick, she is the host of The Wonder Years, a conversational show where they discuss the enchanting goodness of classical education for families with children in the younger years. She also has some delightful projects happening over on their Substack, including a subscriber-only show that takes listeners beyond the veil of fairy tales to explore their deeper images and themes. You can find her on Instagram @wonderyearspodcast or Substack at thewonderyears.substack.com.
Brooke is the grateful wife of Mitch and they have been married for 12 years. She has two boys who are 7 and 5. Her family recently moved to plant a church on the Gulf Coast and are planting roots in Perdido Key, Florida. She is a classical Charlotte Mason home educator and when she’s not teaching phonics and battling dragons. She’s happily out of doors with her chickens and hobby garden. She loves to study the story of God with women from her local church. You can find her most mornings up before the sun reading, coffee in hand, and plotting her next move to get more Christian women reading Narnia.
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Painting: Children Playing in the Fields, Alfred Sisley, 1879
I share Amanda's last sentiment to you, Autumn. It's a gift to the church, what God has equipped you to do for earnest mothers who want to show their children the highest good, the beauty of God's world, and of Christ himself. This whole conversation encouraged and inspired me - praise God.
Thank God and thank you for the encouragement!
Yyyyyeeesssss. Thank you, you three lovely ladies!
I do have to disagree with Amanda on the Paul Galdone; I love those illustrations 😉
Fair enough!
LOVE this conversation.
Thank you!
Wow this was incredible. I can relate so much to Brooke!
Brooke is a delight. I love learning from her!
7:42 "I dont want to give this up to anybody else." Yes! What a gift! We are so blessed to be with our babies. Praise God ❤ thank you for this interview and your channel as a whole! God bless you ladies!
I remember thinking, "You can't go be funny anywhere else!" when my oldest was two. I can't miss all the delightful things!
I am LOVING The Wonder Years!!!
Woo!
Wonderful discussion ladies. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with our community.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So lovely and encouraging! I needed the reminder that training the tastes and the importance of myths fables and folktales .. we’ve done well on myths but seriously lacking in fairytale and fable. So encouraged and dare I say convicted almost to add these things in to enrich my children’s worlds ❤ so grateful for all three of your voices I’m a homeschool mom in Utah surrounded by non Christian’s and very secular minded people . I’m so blessed that you have such a thoughtful and beautiful ministry. It reminds me I’m not alone on this journey and I’m not crazy for wanting classically/mason home educate my three children ❤🙏🥹
You're definitely not crazy! I'm glad it was a helpful and encouraging conversation. I know your whole house will enjoy the influx of fairy tales and fable! They really do help children form the metaphors needed to interpret their lives!
This was wonderful. Thank you ladies, so much! I’m a mom with only littles right now, and this was so helpful.
So happy to hear it!
Woohoo! My favorite part of the week!
Same!!
You ladies are kind!
I have 4 boys and 1 girl. My daughter is the oldest and starting school with her looked very different than my son's first year this past year. Amanda, i subscribed to your substack. Looking forward to it! Great episode ladies!
You'll very much enjoy that Substack!
Beautiful! I am learning so much from you ladies! Wisdom all the way! X
So happy to have you here!
This was a wonderful conversation and so encouraging! My son starts year 1 in the fall and i have been preparing by reading the fairy tales and coming to know them for myself.
I think that is a great way to spend one's time! I listen to Amanda's Wonder Tales for the same reason and jokingly refer to it as "school prep".
This is so funny! We were planying seeds today and m child asked why we plant so many and i was explaining not all of them sprout or make it to bloom but some will and those are the important ones!
Fantastic!
I enjoyed listening! I missed it, what translation is suggested for fairy tales?
She mentioned: Paul Galdone Folk Tales, Everyman’s Aesop’s Fables, and Household Stories from the Collection of Brothers Grimm translated from the German by Lucy Crane.
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Im confused. Don't everyone read their children fairy tales and myths?
I went to public school in my country and my mom read us fairytales from everywhere. Plus Greek, Roman, Norse and Celtoc mythology all through our childhood..
No, no. It's definitely not the norm for the average American literary life. "Fairy tales" are Disney-fied and many Christians are uncomfortable with myths as a genre.