Ep 04 | How Children Understand Story: An Interview with Amanda Faus and Brooke Johnson of The Wonder Years Podcast
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 world 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 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?
Footnotes for this episode
The Wonder Years | Substack (Includes Wonder Tales series!)
Ep 07 Stories | The Wonder Years
Ep 05 How Littles Learn | The Wonder Years with Alec Bianco
An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Beauty in the Word, Stratford Caldecott
Ep 07 | For King and Country!: The Mythic and Moral Imagination
Ep 08 | Tell Me A Story: An Interview with Emelie Thomas | Emelie’s Substack “Sacramental Stories”
Simply Convivial with Mystie Winkler
John Senior’s The Thousand Good Books List
Bios
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 or Substack.
Brooke Johnson 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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