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Jodi Mockabee is a homeschooling mother of 5 who makes her home in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She recently released her first book, The Whole and Healthy Family: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Mind, Body, and Spirit. Jodi is passionate about health, wellness, and parenting. She shares her family’s journey as well as curriculum for creative and artistic homeschooling at JodiMockabee.com.
You can listen to my conversation with Jodi on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And be sure to check our other interviews with amazing guests like Leslie Martino, Durenda Wilson, Jennifer Pepito, and Amber O’Neal Johnston.
Connect with Jodi
- Visit Jodi’s website
- Follow Jodi on Instagram
Grab your copy of The Whole and Healthy Family: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Check out some of the resources Jodi mentioned in this episode
- Ambleside Online
- Jodi’s Notebooking Manual (Learn how Jodi has simplified her homeschool through notebooking with step-by-step instructions, tips, and inspiration)
- Memorizing Scripture Verses to Song
- Math Mammoth
- HSLDA Online Academy
- Mr. D Math
Recommended reading from The Whole and Healthy Family
Health + Nutrition
- Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
- The Maker’s Diet by Jordan Rubin
- Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brainf for Life by David Perlmutter
- Ancient Remedies: Secrets to Healing 70+ Conditions with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History by Dr. Josh Axe
Parenting
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- The Road Back to You by Ian Cron
Family Read-Alouds
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (Jodi mentions that this is one of her favorite parenting books as well!)
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little Britches and Man of the Family by Ralph Moody