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Stop Making Your Homeschool Look Like School · Homeschool Revolution

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Homeschool Revolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rebecca Stromster, homeschool mom of five for over 20 years, and I've been coaching moms just like you for decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've done this messy, done it wrong, and figured it out as I went.
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  SPEAKER_00: This podcast is for the working mom, single mom, stay-at-home mom, and yes, dads too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any parent who is done with the old way and ready to raise creative, confident kids who actually change the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't just homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is revolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to my homeschool Village, Rebecca here, homeschool mom to five children for over 20 years, and I am here to help you homeschool and help you with any issues that you're having.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today's today's topic, um, I actually just got out of the live with my homeschool village's moms in there where they get to ask me any questions and I'm there to coach them and guide them and direct them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the difference that they get is I actually show them actual curriculums and tools to use inside my homeschool village that I have for their children to be able to thrive and to do really well and to love learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I am here to help you as homeschool parents, if you're burned out, if your kids don't want to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our topic today is how to get your children to learn, how to get them to actually do the work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you have complained like you have an ADHD child or they won't sit still and learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have a child who won't sit still to learn, I'm gonna ask you, how old is that child and how good are your expectations?
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  SPEAKER_00: A child under the age of eight shouldn't really have to sit more than five to ten minutes to be able to sit and learn anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Children don't sit to learn, they learn while moving, they learn while being, they learn while playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to ask a child to stop their life to sit and learn under the age of eight is actually shutting down their brains.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every child under the age of eight is an ADHD kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all moving around, they need to be learning, guided, they need to, they need to be doing, and this is very normally normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can really welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh come come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking to homeschool parents here and helping you homeschool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've been homeschooling for 20 years, and I love 20, 25 years now, and I love helping families homeschool and find the joy in homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so children under the age of eight, there is one focus that they need to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all they need to do under the age of eight is learn to be a human.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their feelings are big, their understanding is small, they are they only understand the small world around them, and so all education should revolve around the world they live in, not the world they're gonna live in and don't even know exists yet or can't even understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point of a child under the age of eight is to help them know how to treat people, how to be kind, what are morals, what are standards, what is expectations, what how how to feel, how to act on those feelings, how to clean, how to take care of the space around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Coco.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do how this is all they need.
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  SPEAKER_00: A child under the age of eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to be playing, playing, playing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the most important job they could possibly do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are not wasting time.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just the world's stupidity talking to us because we were public schooled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was public schooled.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was not homeschooled.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it took me a long time to reprogram my brain out of the public school system to homeschool my children.
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  SPEAKER_00: It took me a decade.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I finally started to get in it, my poor first children struggled a little bit and my like my younger kids thrived because I finally figured it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm here to help you not be lost in homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't take 10 years to figure it out, especially if you started homeschooling when your kids are older, you don't have 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm here to cut that time for you and give you the lessons I learned, the help I learned, the hacks, the tricks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So before the age of eight, your child needs to learn to play.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't need to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need the freedom to play, they need to be read to often and in your lap.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they need to be able to, oh, thank you for the balloons.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to be able to have the freedom to learn how to um use their own time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in play, they're learning to solve problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're little problems, but that's their little people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they learn how to solve little problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as um, they also learn how to use their time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to get it before breakfast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to do it before lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I nap times, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're learning little concepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't need a clock and they don't need to be told when to do what because their bodies and their spirits, you need to let them learn how to be the human they are, learn how to take care of their bodies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we having a tired day?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's okay to take a nap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you feeling stressed today?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do we need to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: You literally, and this is something that was ripped from all of us as children that went to public school, we weren't allowed to be humans.
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  SPEAKER_00: The public school system does not allow us to be human, which means if you have to pee, go pee.
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  SPEAKER_00: I literally yesterday, okay, was helping take care of five-year-olds for a class in church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I watched a little five-year-old in the class start dancing around.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was going crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought the teacher was a public school mom, and she, not to say anything wrong with it, but we just she was like, This boy will not sit still.
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  SPEAKER_00: He drives me crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just he refuses to sit still.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, I think he has to pee.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I asked him, I said, Do you need to go potty?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he beelined it for the door, and I took him over to the bathroom where he immediately peeed, came back and sat still for the next 30 minutes in class.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that teacher looked at me, she's like, Oh, she didn't notice he needed to pee.
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  SPEAKER_00: All she saw was a little boy who wouldn't stop moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, here's what's interesting: there were three other kids in there that were awfully movie, moving around.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were 10 children in this classroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other three, there were three that were moving around and very busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Does anybody else need to go potty?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I took the little group to the bathroom and the teacher waited.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I got them back, guess which children stopped being so moving?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the ones who had to pee.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we let them have their, they let we let them take care of their physical bodies, and now they were ready to learn, and their little comments about Jesus were so cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: So sometimes it's really those those ages before the age of eight is really about letting your child read their body language and answer the call.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a grandma who's going to homeschool my granddaughter who's three, and I am overwhelmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you don't need to be overwhelmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandma, can I send a book?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I I can't send you a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I recommend a book for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called The Thomas Jefferson Education.
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  SPEAKER_00: That book is going to show you that until the age of eight, that child does not need academics.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if they ask how to draw, if they love a pen in hand, you can slowly start to show them how to write.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they love, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So go get the book, The Thomas Jefferson Education.
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  SPEAKER_00: That book, and eat just read the first what it there like it explains it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It breaks up a childhood until the age of eight, eight and before, and then an eight to twelve, and then a twelve to sixteen, and it talks about the different phases a child learns, how they learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: And once you read that, you're never gonna think of learning the same again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're gonna realize that a three-year-old, there's nothing to be overwhelmed about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you can join my homeschool village.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can come in, join my community, join where I provide the curriculums and life classes and all the things that a child needs to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you're starting with three, and by the way, bravo grandma for homeschooling your child, that is hard work because we, I'm a grandma, I got a three-year-old grandchild, and I will tell you right now, I'm getting old and it's I'm getting more tired than I was with my other kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the idea of having to start over and homeschool my kids, my grandkids right now would tire me out.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I know now that it's not as hard as we think it is, it's not as hard as we make it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go read Thomas Jefferson Education.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you want me to say it one more time?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's on Amazon and start reading that, and you will be like, I got this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, very, very great book.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll help you really get moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rebecca here, homeschool mom to five kids for over 20 years, and I am helping you homeschool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So right now, we live on a farm, she gets lots of outdoor time on 300 acres.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, honey, she has the ideal childhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what quit stressing?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to be doing anything until she's the age of eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: If she's got that environment, she's good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read to her every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eventually she'll start picking up reading herself.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you have that kind of an environment to grow up on, she will learn herself.
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  SPEAKER_00: She will do her own.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just read to her every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: 20 minutes until she's ready to sit longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what she'll do is she'll start to discover books, and then she'll start to discover, and then she'll start to learn that books are what help.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let that little girl have a childhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the best thing you can do for her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because here's what happens a child without a childhood still needs that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our emotional brains, our self-development, needs childhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: And too many of us were robbed of childhood and put in a public school system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the children who are robbed of childhood and put in a public school system are claiming that childhood for that development as adults, which is why we got a bunch of people who never grew up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they're still trying to hold on to the childhood they never had.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're chasing something they can't have.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you let a child be a child while they're a child, the development of the brain and the spirit and the body is natural.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a child who's allowed that childhood will eventually crave adulthood and be an excellent adult because the childhood was established.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a rock that needs established.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to build the foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a foundation of an ad happy adult is childhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So let them have a childhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandma, I'm so proud of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you keep doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope your other kids let you homes or homeschool all the kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's actually a dream of mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would like to own a farm and have my kids live nearby where their children are hanging out in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm hoping to get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So welcome you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Stacey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Anna.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you're welcome to pop any questions you have at me over homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am here to answer all questions that you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been homeschooling for a very long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Different, five different children, very different personalities, different needs, and I've been coaching for 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm here to help you as you homeschool with your woes, the problems, whatever that might be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, maybe it's a curriculum, maybe it's a behavior, maybe it's your children refuse to sit and learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's my kid hates learning because they just pulled them out of school.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know what to do with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any of those things, I'm happy to answer for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been doing this a very long time, and I'm pretty sure I can help.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come on in, fly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Jay Jazzy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, Britt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um children under the age of eight need freedom because they will learn to control their own freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will learn how to schedule their days, they will learn how to solve problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the things you don't get to do in school, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will, you know what the best part is?
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  SPEAKER_00: A child who's kept at home before the age of eight will learn that touch is good as long as they're getting good touch.
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  SPEAKER_00: My daughter, I have a fourth, my fourth child, decided she wanted to try kindergarten.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we were in a good city and supposedly a great school.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's down the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'd just moved there.
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  SPEAKER_00: My daughter says, Mom, I want to try school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I let her go to pop.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got her in to kindergarten in this great dual immersion, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Within a week, she came home and she wouldn't let me put her on my lap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mom, touch's not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: We shouldn't be doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, wait, what?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just snuggling.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just you kiss on the cheek.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the big deal?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, mommy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Touch is bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not supposed to touch.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of a sudden, she wouldn't hug her siblings, her mom, her dad.
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  SPEAKER_00: She just, she kind of she came in, started closing off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I realized it was because, of course, in a public school system, I understand they have to teach that to the small children.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I understand why they have to teach those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you're at home with your own kids, you don't teach those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You teach what appropriate touches and inappropriate touches.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you allow your children to be touchy children as long as they know their boundaries, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's a vital part of development that is ripped out of a five-year-old, from a five-year-old, four-year-old, depending on how soon they go to school, that touch is bad, all touch is bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a human, that's removing some of our basic needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's actually, if you stop, did you know that in in uh in okay, I just totally drew a blank.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, orphanages, the children aren't getting touched, and they're finding all of these like mental problems with a child who grows up in an orphanage because of the lack of touch, and then we go and put them in public schools where the lack of touch is like, don't get me wrong, I don't want anybody touching my kid in public school, but that's why I don't send them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of those, and just started homeschool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome! Just started homeschool.
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  SPEAKER_00: How's it going?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you like it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you hating it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you loving it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has its good and its bad, it can have some scary things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Mish, stay at home mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so before eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight and younger is all about play, reading books, play-doh, like, and when they're sitting there playing, this is when you do a lot of like, you know, they have the dolls and the dolls are talking to each other, and one doll might be mean, and the other doll is it, and this is when you'd be like, oh, you know, the dolls are fighting or not getting along, and this is when you teach basic humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, we don't talk to our friends that way, sweetheart.
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  SPEAKER_00: We always talk kindly to our friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me show you, and you'd be the doll, and you right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what the age of eight and under is for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teaching them to listen to their body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you need to pee?
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  SPEAKER_00: Go pee when you need to pee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you need are you hungry?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you grumpy right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you need something to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that what your body's telling you?
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  SPEAKER_00: You that's what those ages are for.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is your body saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you tired?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that they need to know themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they're learning because they don't really have the ability to learn much more than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love having him home.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, having trouble finding a schedule curriculum as is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you have got to see mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to see mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, my homeschool village, which is who the program I created, I created for it's the schedule curriculum, and I will tell you right now, a schedule with times on how long they should learn, when they should learn, and what they should learn is actually counterproductive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It actually won't work at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it works in the public school system because that's what they have to do for 30 kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you are homeschooled, you actually need it to be a rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a rhythm that goes with the family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I actually have an entire, I spell it out for you what the rhythm looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got it all written out, and you the rhythm, let me, it goes something like this, depending on their age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, how's your son?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the rhythm says, wake up, enjoy waking up, spend whatever time you need waking up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether you're getting outside and taking a walk or they're just playing for a little bit, great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, first grader, then this one's for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They play, they do, they whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they're hungry for breakfast, notice I did not say we're having breakfast at 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they're hungry for breakfast, which might be 9 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: and it might be 7 a.m., you feed them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as soon as food is done, get out the math books.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get out the math, reading, writing, math.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have right after breakfast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's this what happens is when you do this year after year after year, or even it doesn't even take that long, day after day after day, they just start doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to ask them, you have to tell them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They literally finish breakfast and pull out their math books and get to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: After reading, writing, and math is done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some days that's gonna take you 10 minutes, and some days that's gonna take you three hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just depends on how your day's going or how tired they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if they're fighting on that day, you ask more questions.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, did you sleep last night?
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Are you coming down with the cold?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Everything okay, right?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: And if they're fly, great, let them fly.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because as soon as they're done, they get to go back to play.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll see a kid who learns very quickly.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: The faster I get this done, the faster I get to go back to play.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: So if all it takes is 10 minutes, don't sit there and go, they should have worked for an hour.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, if they got it done, they got it done.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Move on.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let them go play, let them reward themselves for hard work, for being efficient.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Then they play.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, after lunchtime is nap time, reading time.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: So that's when I would have my kids, they had to either lay in bed for one hour.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'd set a timer so everybody could hear one hour, and if they fell asleep, great.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: And if not, fine, but they had to be quiet or with a book or take a nap.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: One hour.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Because I needed a break from them and they needed a break from me.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: When you're homeschool, you have to schedule in a break from each other.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's really good.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't done it yet, you need to do it.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: After, did you hear that?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's my son being a stinker.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, after lunch and after quiet time, it's creative time.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is when we'd pull out the toys for the littles, or this is when we'd pull out the arts and crafts for the older kids.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it was creative time.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's being creative.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: You don't feel like being creative, you can go out and play.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't want to go out and play, you can clean a bathroom.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: But they're, you know, you give them choices.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then and then after playtime, we would clean up the house.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: I only did chores after all of that.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: I never did morning chores.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: It ruined the education time.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: We did chores right before dinner, and then we'd have dinner as a family, or right before they'd help me make dinner, depending on their ages.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: And when you get into these rhythms, there's like daily rhythms, there's weekly rhythms, there's monthly rhythms.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: So in the fall, we'd be outside all the time checking out leaves and playing and things.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: But come winter, it was freezing cold, and we were while reading a lot of books in front of the fireplace.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: And so we got a lot of history done in the winter because we were reading a lot in front of a fireplace, but in the summer we got a lot of science done because we were out doing.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: So there are there are rhythms, natural rhythms that go with the pull of the world that go with your life.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: And those are all things that I spell out inside my homeschool village, exactly how they work.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Once you figure out the rhythm, your daily rhythm, your weekly rhythm, Mondays and Tuesdays, your kids will work hard for you because they're fresh.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Wednesday, they want to change, but they can still learn.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you do different days.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: We used to do library days on Wednesday.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: We would go load up at the library, get all the books we wanted, go to the park, grab some French fries if I had the money that week, and then go home, pop popcorn, read books the rest of the day.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: That was my kids' favorite memory as kids now.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: They're adults now, and they'll say, My fa I miss library days because they're they're adults now, but they still love that feeling of going to the library and loading up on books.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's their favorite thing in the world.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: So you're you're planting these types of yummy feelings for them as you're doing this.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then Thursdays, we usually did like a co-op, an activity.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of times, usually it was friend time.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: I liked Thursdays for friends, and so I would I would work with other homeschool parents.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, or we would sign up for something on Thursdays.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: We run our errands on Thursdays.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: For some reason, Thursdays were just a great day to go out and do whatever that was.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Fridays, sometimes we veg.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Fridays are off, by the way.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: We don't do education, like, and I can't say that.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: We do education, we don't do academics on Friday unless we missed Monday because something happened.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: Or unless, right?
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a makeup day.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: But you leave Fridays for long weekends, quite frankly.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have learned to have more long weekends.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we hit it hard.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thursday, we get things done.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: They're learning a lot of life skills when you do it this way.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thursday is when they're learning how to sew and how to do the laundry and how to cook and how to take care of their lives.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Too many young adults now don't know how to do those things.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: They don't know how to cook, they don't know how to wash.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I know this because my children went to college and were shocked at how little their roommates knew.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: My kids were teaching their roommates how to do their laundry, how to grocery shop, how to cook.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: And they were like, Mom, when why did they not learn these things?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: All they know is this useless knowledge and they can't live.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, yeah, that's why we homeschooled.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so Thursday we like to do, it's kind of a life skill day, but it's my kids go grocery shopping with me.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: They help me stay in the budget, they help me pick the ingredients for the meals they're going to be cooking.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's what our Thursdays look like now that they're older.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: My my kids, um, my younger two are 17 and 14.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: And we still do that every Thursday.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Friday is like we have a couple of classes, some karate, you know, but generally Friday for us is makeup day, sleep day, because Saturday we go out and do things with dad.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: Sunday we go to church.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times Friday we just have a down day and just relax and recoup from the week.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: So um, one of my favorite things as a homeschooler is to make sure I have a recoup day every week.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: If if we can do it on Sunday, we do.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: But if we know Sunday's gonna be busy, then we put it on Saturday.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: But if we know Saturday's gonna be busy, we'll put it on Friday.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I make sure that every seven days my kids have one day of no expectations, nothing.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: They don't have to go anywhere, do anything, because they need that emotionally, and so do I.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't realize how much they needed it.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Hi Jelly Bean, hi JJ, Jaclyn, welcome.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Homeschooling, you need one day a week.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Of downtime when every moment and every day of your life is scheduled, that's when stress and anxiety happens.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: It is vital to plan an off day a week and an off week every six weeks to a month.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like these are things that we've learned in homeschooling over time that our bodies, our brains need so we avoid burnout.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Burnout is real.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's real in life, it's real in homeschooling, it's real as kids, it's real as parents.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: And so instead of just trying to push through burnout, we have learned how to plan to not have burnout, which are vacations.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you talk to millionaires, if you read any of these books on how to make money, if you read the books on people who have made built successful businesses, they will tell you the first thing they schedule is their vacations.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: They go in and literally schedule their vacations and their time off and then build their businesses around that because they have understood that their break time is their recoup time, and if they don't recoup, the business suffers.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: So they literally plan their recoup time first, then build the work around it so that they're always refilling their own cup.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: And this is vital in homeschooling.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: We have to teach our children that they need to refill their own cup.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: So we plan breaks, which is why I only homeschool academically three days a week.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth day is life skills, and the fifth day is a break, and they get it and they enjoy it and they're happier because of it.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: So just a couple of tricks, hacks that I use inside my homeschool village to teach our parents in there how to homeschool and little tricks, these little things that you learn over 25 years that there's no other way to get but experience.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: And quite frankly, I'm shocked that other homeschoolers don't talk about this.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe they don't know, maybe they haven't homeschooled long enough.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: But I've homeschooled long enough and taught enough people now to know what works and what doesn't.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: So come on in.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Hi Alyssa, hi Gress, hi uh who we got in here?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: Chris, Jacqueline, come in and ask your questions.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here to answer any and all homeschool questions.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: What are your issues?
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you struggling?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: What do you wish somebody would help you with?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: If I could come and sit in your living room and the two of us just sat down and talked, what is it that you would like to hear?
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: What issue in your family with your child are you struggling with that you would love an old homeschool mom like me to come in and say, Let me help you?
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of like, did you ever watch?
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: Is it even still on?
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the nanny who would come in and help like fix people's issues in their homes.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like that for homeschooling.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Think of it that way.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um okay, it said comment, no comment.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's okay.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we were talking about earlier, and I'm sorry if you missed it, but this will be recorded or broken up later.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: But in the in the early years before the age of eight, a child needs a childhood.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: They gotta be kids.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the age is from eight to twelve, okay, they have a new, they've entered into a new phase, but they don't stop playing.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Notice, never cut off the play.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because what happens is from eight to twelve, they start to discover.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's this stage of discovery where everything is new, everything is cool, everything is why, why, why, why, why.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: And this is when parents get the most annoyed, but this is really important because your children have are their eyes are starting to open to the world and what's around them, and they're in a lot, a little bit in awe.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: And this is when your whole education should be based around discovery.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: What is out there in the world?
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: What are they that this is where they start to learn that there's good and bad things and good and bad people, and there are things that we need to avoid, and how do we handle a computer, and how do we talk to strangers and uh write all these things that like they need to start learning, but it's also about what kind of science is out there, what kind of history, what stories can teach me?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: And these are all parts that you do in the 8 to 12 range.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's about discovery, it's about trying out 18 different instruments until they find the one that works, it's about trying ballet and karate and jujitsu and art classes because they really don't know who they are yet and they want to discover that.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's an age of discovery.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: They need the freedom to figure out what they like.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you do this at 8 to 12, then by the time they're 14 to 16, they're diving into those things.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: They want more.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: They find out they're a dancer and they have rhythm and they're good at it, and they start diving into the dancing, or they find out that they love mechanics and they're taking apart cars because they've had their childhood to discover that.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that by the time they're 16, they're actually looking for internships so they can dive into more of what they want.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then by the time they're 18, they've just chosen who they want to be, where they're going, and how they're getting there.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how it works when you're homeschooling and when your parent allows you the freedom to discover yourself and helps with that plan.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Now, a child who does not go through those phases, like a public school child, is not going through those phases.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're shoved into an adult world that was create for control, and they're forced to do what they have to do.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so by the time they're out of that system, these children are like, I don't know who I am, I don't know what I like, I don't even know what the heck's available out there.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: I was having a conversation the other day with one of my nephews.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: He's like 17, and I was we were talking about what he wanted to do after school, and all he could think of, he's like, all well, the only things in his life that he assumed were his options were what his aunts or uncles did for a living or the subjects in school.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of kids will be like, I don't like science.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: Do you not like science, or did you just not like the top the topics that were being taught or how it was taught?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Because we might be killing some beautiful scientists who probably invent the next great thing, and their brains are like, no thanks, and we've ruined them because there was a bad science curriculum that they got when they were in fifth grade.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas that child might have discovered this the fix for cancer, but because they were discouraged in science when they were little, see the problem?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: So the whole point is that we allow our children the freedom to examine, to discover, to dive in, to change their mind.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because, quite frankly, let's be honest, I am so glad nobody helped me to the whole I'm gonna be a firefighter when I was eight because I don't want to be a firefighter.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: No thanks.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Love them.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: Any of you firefighters out there, laugh, love you for it.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to be one.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: See what I mean on that.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, hi love, hi mother of potato side show.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Heather call me mom hacks.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, you guys.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: Insomnia now, aren't we?
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: One of all one of those.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Rebecca here, homeschool mom, two five children for over 25 years, and I help parents find the joy in homeschooling and find the joy in their children.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's a great joy to be had in our kids if we're not fighting them all the time.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't have to fight your kids all the time.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: There are some wonderful ways to homeschool, be with your kids, all those things.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: And homeschooling doesn't have to be a headache, it doesn't have to be hard.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: There are tricks, there are ways to help you to have homeschooling be an absolute joy and to watch your children thrive.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: To bring home an anxious child and then to go and watch them heal and then watch them thrive is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: How would I be able to pull my 13-year-old from public school and into homeschool?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so insomnia, here's what you do.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: So my homeschool village is um link is in the bio.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: This, I literally, actually the link's right here.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I literally spell this out for you.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: What you're gonna do is you're gonna go to the h-sl d a dot org.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: K H S L D A dot org.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: You go to their website, you get a link, you put it in their state, it tells you exactly what legally you have to do to pull them out of the system.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what I teach: pulling a child out of the system and then just bringing them home and putting them in front of an online program that's worse than the system is not homeschooling.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's torture.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: So, what you're gonna do is you're gonna bring them home and you're going to um let them heal.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: A 13-year-old has got damage.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: There is therapeutic, he needs therapy or she.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's probably some healing that needs done.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: I assume there's bullying going on.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: You pull that child and then you go through a healing process, which is all about keeping the tech off.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: Turning, going to the library and getting books, going to museums, letting the child detox.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Let them detox from the system, let them trust that they're safe now, that they no longer have to put up with that kind of crap.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: You give them time to adjust, and then you slowly put education back in at this age.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: You slowly start with one subject and you, and I I have all the subjects, by the way.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: I give you exactly what you need to do, when to do it, and how to do it, and I show you step by step, pulling the child out, the healing process.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: I explain it step by step inside the village, and then I give you the curriculum that you're just gonna add in this today.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, after a week and they get the hang of it, now just add in this.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: You pull them out and shove them in front of a system, they're gonna hate you and they're gonna hate homeschool.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: Guaranteed.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's now what state are you in?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: Insomnia.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: What state are you in?
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: Or country.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: I've been getting a lot of people from other countries right now.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: So tell me what state or country you're in, and I can do, I can give you more details.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Nevada.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I think Nevada's a great place to homeschool.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have never heard anybody having a problem in Nevada.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do a check for you.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and the HSL VA, and I would share my screen, but I don't know how to do that.
• 31:56
  unknown: Sorry.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um homeschool state laws in Nevada.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as my computer kicks in.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever I'm on a TikTok, I have my computer slowly down.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um my computer doesn't want to work.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see if this works.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: I have a three-year-old and five-year-old.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what would be the first step to homeschool them.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, go get the book, Thomas Jefferson Education.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason I lead you there first is because a child that age only needs you.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: They need playtime and they need to read.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: They need to read with mom.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: They need read to is what they need.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Not they don't even need to be reading on their own yet.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: They just need mom or dad, whoever's homeschooling them, to be reading to them good books.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: Period.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then as they get older, and most states it's not, you don't even have to start any kind of academics until the age of six.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let me close this.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, way too many times.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now let's see if I can get this law for you.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure Nevada's sweating.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, there it is.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Nevada.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Homeschool state laws.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh school required for ages six through eighteen.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: You do have to notify.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: You do not need teacher qualifications.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: There are state-mandated subjects, which means reading, writing, math, science, the basics, right?
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: They do not do assessments, they do not require immunizations.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: The only notification that you have to do is file a one-time notice of intent to homeschool.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then it actually gives you exactly where to file that here.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then the required subjects are English, math, science, social studies.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm telling you, the states have like very low bar, very low bar.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's real easy to surpass a state's bar on what education is.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so you file.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you do not file with a school, okay?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: You file with the superintendent of your local school district.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: Do not go to the school to file this.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Most schools are completely inaccurate and uneducated on how to homeschool, and they think that they have more control over your child than they do.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're gonna go pull them out, go to the district office in your city, or most places do it online now, and you just say, I'm gonna homeschool, where's my form?
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: You literally fill out a form that says, I, the parent of, promise to now take their child's um, the child's education in my own care.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: And the whole point of it is so you can't sue the state later because you're if your kid's not educated.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole point.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: You're literally releasing them of any legal obligation to educate your child.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: You're done.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now go homeschool.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're looking for the curriculum, yeah, come to my homeschool village and I give it to you.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: What I do is I provide an entire buffet.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: Most online curriculums for homeschooling are frozen meals.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody gets the same food.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: You don't get to pick, you get in, you do what you're told, which is still public school online.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, my homeschool village, we give you a buffet.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: You walk into the buffet, you see everything laid out before you.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: You get to pick what you like and what you don't like.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: You get to pick what's interesting and what's not.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can taste, and if you don't like it, put it back.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's what my homeschool village is built.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's built so that your you and your child can customize the education to who you are, how you want to do it.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a night owl and you prefer to do your work at night?
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: If you're a day early morning person, great.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: If you only want to homeschool Mondays and Tuesdays and you don't want to on Wednesdays, fine.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: The whole point is that you build your own life around the education.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: That nobody's building that life for you.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the number one key here to homeschooling.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: Ages six to seventeen.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: All age, yeah.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: I have all ages.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: I actually have four to seventeen.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: I have a, I actually have a teacher, one of our live teachers.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, our our live co-op right now is full where you get live classes, but I do have curriculum even for preschool.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just reading, writing, math, basic worksheets like how to draw the letter A, that kind of stuff, little lessons where they can learn little things.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's really cute.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I have, so for one price, inside my homeschool village, which by the way, right now is$79, it's gonna be$99 November 1st from then on.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: You lock in a$79 rate right now.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: You get access to all 12 years of curriculum.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: And here's why.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because your 13-year-old might be behind in writing and reading, and she might actually be at fourth grade level, but she doesn't want to know that she doesn't want you to know that, and she doesn't want to admit it.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: But in math, she might be really good and she might be an eighth-grade math.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: And this allows you to do both and access the different levels for her monthly.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes,$79 a month, unless you pay for the year in advance and you get two years free, two years, two months free.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's$79 a month, and that's your entire program.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: Most programs don't even give you an eighth of what we give you.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: We have over 200 classes in there.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: If your child, what does your child love to do?
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: Write, draw, um, what's their interest?
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you if we have a program for that.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: I have a 12-year-old and a nine-year-old.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: How do I know how much schooling is enough per week per day?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: I actually spell all of this out for you inside the village.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I literally write it down exactly.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: So a 12 and nine-year-old, they don't need more than one to two hours a day.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I I know, like the online systems will busy work your kids to death.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: One to two hours of academics.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I say academics because there is a difference between learning and sitting down and doing an assignment.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Huge difference.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: Your children are learning all the time.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: The assignments don't need to be more than one or two hours a day, three days a week.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, my homeschool village, we do reading, writing, math every day because it's just a habit.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's something it builds on.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: It comes over time.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's something my children just do eat breakfast, reading, writing math.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then Monday, science.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: Tuesday, history, Wednesday, art, Thursday, technology.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the whole thing.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then we do because Thursdays are our life skill days.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: So it's actually pretty darn easy.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let me show.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very interested.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: I just have to talk to my kids and why if I want it to be mutual deal, as you should.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: They should have absolute control.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, not absolute control.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: They should definitely have a say in their education and what they're gonna be doing.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: I agree with you.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, good for you.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: If I inform the district about me homeschooling my kids, they are not asking why or the right reasons.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's none of their business.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Legally, they don't, it doesn't matter.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: And even if they say why, you can say, doesn't matter.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: You are the parent, they're your children, legally, your children.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: A district cannot tell you no in any state right now.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: They cannot tell you no.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: They don't get to know why, they don't get to know how, and they don't get to know where.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: You sign the paper, you're done.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, they do not own your child.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: And they'll ask, you'll have nosy people.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: Really, why are you doing that?
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Just say because we want to.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: You never have to give more information than that.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, I've been following you for a few months and didn't know you had a program.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: What's it called?
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_00: Coco! My homeschool Village is the program.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it's um, I call it the homeschool made simple system because I actually take you all the way from pulling your child out to healing and the process that needs to be done to exactly what to teach, when to teach it, and how to teach it.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I give you everything.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: And when they're ready to go to college or high school or whatever they're gonna do, I give you that too.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: I help you with the transcripts, I help you with how to get them into college, I help you with if they don't want to go to college, where are they gonna go and how are they gonna get there?
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: All of those things are built inside my homeschool villages program.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: Come check it out, Coco.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Priscilla.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Priscilla is one of my members.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: You've been with us four years, educating your children through my homeschool village for four years.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: Priscilla, what do you think of it?
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: You want to tell everybody what you think?
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: We've got people here interested in my homeschool village, and so, Priscilla, if you don't mind telling them what you think, you've been here four years.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what we decided?
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: You're welcome, Varon.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: Come on in, and and I'm always I'm here week or daily, and so you can come and ask your questions anytime.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have any recommendations on a split household?
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: How can I make sure my teen is doing her work?
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, oh, you love this.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're welcome, Coco.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how can you okay?
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: How old is your team?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, how long have they been homeschooled?
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: What program are you currently using?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: I love homeschooling my children.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was the best decision I made.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, right, moms.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: Priscilla says, Moms, you need to join.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: This has been life-saving.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: I have had so much support.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well, there you go.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Priscilla.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: Could it be clearer than that?
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate that comment.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you're homeschooling a 13-year-old using easy peasy.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, easy peasy.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I struggle with easy peasy and because it it was too much work for me.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I always liked, I tried it when my kids were little and I was still in like figuring out programs of what were working and all that kind of stuff.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so easy peasy, and I don't know what they do for teens anymore.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a little out of the loop on the older ages.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: I know when I tried it when they were little, it was too much work for me.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was a lot of busy work.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I didn't love it.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of parents who love it, so um, but your question was how to keep track of it, how to make sure they get it done.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I know how to tell you how to do it inside my homeschool village because it's built this way for reporting, right?
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um easy peasy, I'm not sure.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: Every program's a little different.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm I'm just struggling answering that question because I don't know how to tell you how to do it with my with easy peasy.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how to get it done.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: You and babysitting them needs to not be an option.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: You got to figure out ways to find out what their monetary, not monetary, the reward system is.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: Some kids want time with moms, some kids want money, some kids want uh more computer time, some kids want not to have to do the dishes for a week.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I would make deals with my kids.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Make me a deal.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: I need you to do your homework.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: I also, you know, you don't want to do your homework, but it needs done anyway, so you make the deal and how it's gonna work.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: And a 13-year-old should be old enough to make a deal with you on getting things done and what the reward is.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: I've been homeschooling for over six years, they've never stepped foot in a school.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: We are also happy.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: Amen to that.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Good for you.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: Does that help, Maribel?
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a child at 13, any child who's old enough to argue with you is old enough to negotiate.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's important that they negotiate.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, when you allow them to negotiate with you respectfully and kindly, you're teaching them how to buy a house.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: You're teaching them how to buy a car, you're teaching them how to not take be taken advantage of, you're teaching them how to um not do whatever an adult says whenever they say it.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: So those are really important skills.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so my children have had a say, as soon as they're old enough to argue with me, they're old enough to make me a deal.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it was as simple as hey mom, if I do my math, can I have that cupcake?
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it was all right, how about every hour I do math, I get an hour on the computer?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: Deal, right?
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes their ideas were like, mmm, try again, sweetheart.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, we'd have that conversation too.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'd go, well, that benefits you, but you need to create a win-win for both of us.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_00: I need to win too.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then rework it again.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: And we would have these conversations, and my children are great negotiators.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: But it was simply because I got tired of fighting them and they were creative thinkers.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so we started just saying, Well, make me a deal.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: What's your plan?
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: Change it for me.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: Let your children have more of a say in their education and they will work harder for that education.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: They shouldn't be educating themselves for you.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_00: They should be educating themselves for themselves.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: And when your child is educating themselves for their own sake, they educate better than when they're educating for mom's sake or for the school's sake or for the teacher's sake or because they got a good grade.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: When a child learns for the sake of I learned something new today and that was awesome, that's when real learning takes off.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it's beautiful.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, I got 15 more minutes, and then I actually go live with teenagers.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I have, as part of my homeschool village, we have a high school program.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's called the Bonfire Academy.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I have kids in there, 14 to 18, and I am helping them, I'm actually helping them build their own education around their interests.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: So these are kids who may or may not want to go to college.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of them are entrepreneurs, want to be build businesses.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_00: Many of them are um that maybe they don't know who they are yet, and I'm helping them discover their interests and their talents.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so we go in and on Monday we all meet at noon in 15 minutes, and I meet with them and we go over everything going on, and we have this great relationship.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: These are great kids, and they talk with each other and they help each other out, and they're having these relationships and hanging out inside the group.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me, it's the program I wanted for my older kids, but didn't have.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I got tired of trying to look for the program I wanted for my older kids, my high schoolers.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I finally just this summer built it for my kids because I'm tired of watching teenagers be treated like they're stupid.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: So dire and being forced into ways of life they don't want.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like college.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you right now, a homeschooled child, this is this is a side effect of homeschooling.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't realize I was doing.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: When you bring them home and you homeschool them, you they learn freedom, they learn self-control, they learn the ability to control their days, their lives, right?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: They they learn quite a bit of control over their lives, and then they go to college and become a professional.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: And some homeschool children find that the world was not built for their very free minds.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: So some of my children thrive in having a day-to-day list of things they must do.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: Some of my kids really enjoy that structure.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's their personality, it's great.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: Some of my kids were like, oh my gosh, the world makes me do an eight-hour shift.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, yeah, they do.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: And they've gone, what if I can't, what if I don't want to?
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: What if I can do something else?
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: And they're inventing.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: Homeschoolers right now are inventing jobs, they're inventing different ways of life that nobody else knows because they they don't like the status quo.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so they're building their future.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so as your child child learns to build their own life at home, what happens is they become high schoolers and they're like, oh, there's not as many options out there.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna rebuild.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: So inside Bonfire Academy, I'm helping these children build the future they're looking for, not the one that exists.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I believe that if you're teaching a child for the future that exists, you're failing them.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: Teach a child to build the future they want.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_00: And that is a skill level.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's beautiful to watch these teenagers learning to build the life they want instead of the life that was handed to them or the world says it should be.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that has been my favorite thing about homeschooling.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I learned it off my third child.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: My first two daughters were like, yeah, I like structure.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: Go, go, go.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: And they're, I actually drove them a little crazy because I'm an unstructured mom.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very fly by the seat of your pants.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then comes child three, who's just like me, and he's like, let's fly by the seat of our pants.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's 20 years old now and he's still flying by the seat of his pants, but he's doing it with knowledge.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_00: He's going after the goals he wants and he's building a life he's dreamt of, he's been raised for.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_00: And and that's a beautiful, a beautiful thing.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: As long as he's hard worker, I'm happy.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he is.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: So now my younger two are still figuring it out, but they're 14 and 17.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: They got some time.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, questions.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: I got just a few more minutes here, and I'm gonna have to go.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, go check out my homeschool village and what it can do for you.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: There are um the price on it right now.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_00: If you lock in at that$79 a month, you lock in.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't raise prices on my members ever, guys.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: Ever.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: I might raise as as I build and as I add things into my group and as I give them more and more resources, whatever you got in on, whatever price, that's yours to keep for life of the program.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've got people paying$25 a month on my$300 a month program because they joined when I had nothing.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas my friend, the my friends, because they're all my friends, um, those inside the village that join later, we've added more.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's valuable, it's worth more and more all the time.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: When you're new, yeah, you end up paying the higher prices.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: But once you lock in right now, it's at the lowest it's ever gonna be.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_00: Go lock in your price and it stays, it doesn't go back up, okay?
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: Dig into the program, ladies, you will not regret it.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_00: My family absolutely loves it.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_00: And this is coming, thank you, Priscilla.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is coming from from Priscilla, who has been with us for four years.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_00: She, when Priscilla started, God, what did we have?
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_00: There was like probably not much in there.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we didn't have live classes, and we didn't have now the 79 is not live classes, it's the curriculum.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the live classes will be opening up in December.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_00: We've got a few spaces, so we open up, but we still love it.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we had um, we have live classes, those are closed right now.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's full.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: We call it our co-op, and that will open up in January, and we start taking names in December to get in.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then um, but yeah, it's it's it's those classes are full.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: So come January, we'll open them back up for the winter semester, and then we'll open up again in June.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't stay open for very long because the spots fill really fast.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to be in the co-op, people who get first picker in the system, the$79 system, which is 99 and two in one week, so hurry.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um now there's so much and it only gets better.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: There is a ton in there, and this is actually, I'm gonna tell you right now, that's the worst part about my homeschool village, is there is a ton in there, which means you actually have to look.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: You actually need to, and you can come to me anytime and send me a message to be like, I know you said something about giving us a planner.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_00: Where is that?
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll show you.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes I'll get a little comment like, Man, does anybody know where to find student ID cards?
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, got that for you.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_00: Another mom will come in and say, Hey, where do I get transcripts and how do I do that?
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_00: Here's your video, here's your tools, here's your and that's what we do.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when you're inside the village, you never have to go outside the village to find another resource again because I've already done all the research for you.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've been doing it for 20 years, the good, the bad, and the ugly of the homeschool world.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, there's a lot more ugly out there than there was 20 years ago when I started.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: When I started homeschooling, there are maybe three online programs to do, and everything else was at home.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: You created it yourself.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_00: Now every person and their dog has created an online curriculum, and I'll tell you, 98% of them suck.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: They are sucking away a child's childhood.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: I have so many parents saying, My kid doesn't have time to do anything because the curriculum takes so long.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, how old?
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth grade.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: No, a fourth grader should not be doing five subjects with five worksheets a day.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's ridiculous.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: These kids need to be children, for heaven's sake.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: So there are a lot of crappy online programs right now claiming to educate children online, and I will tell you right now, most of them are terrible.
• 52:18
  SPEAKER_00: And and I've seen them firsthand.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_00: No, there are a couple of good ones.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_00: Mine's the best.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because it was created by a homeschool mom with five children running a business.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are a business or you're trying to work while homeschooling, you need my homeschool village.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: If you have multiple children, you need my homeschool village.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: That$79 price is a one for the whole family access, by the way.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_00: Priscilla, duh.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're the best.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Priscilla, I love you.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_00: And and this is one of the things as well is my homeschool village.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll join a curriculum, and all you'll get is the curriculum.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_00: My homeschool village, you joined a family.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: We are a group of mostly women, but some men, and we have each other's backs and we're hanging out, and we know each other, and we're helping each other homeschool.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_00: And somebody'll ask a question, and Priscilla will pop in and be like, hey, that happened to my kid too.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you what worked for us.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_00: And that's part of it.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, Priscilla.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: So sweet.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: One day we're gonna meet in person.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_00: Remind me what state you're in.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say Arizona, New Mexico.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_00: But why do I think that remind me again?
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm gonna do a meetup right near you.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_00: Just cuz.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I can finally see your cute face.
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_00: New Mexico, I knew it.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_00: I knew it.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_00: New Mexico.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_00: We gotta do an Arizona, New Mexico meetup.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_00: Totally need to do that.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_00: Any other questions you have for me?
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because I do need to be getting over to the high schoolers now, and we're gonna go work on their futures that they are creating for themselves.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry, we will do it.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: I promise you.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to pee before I talk to them, so I'm gonna have to go.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you guys, thank you so much for being here, Priscilla.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: Love that you're here.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_00: Come back tomorrow when I go live again.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's nice to have a friend here.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and for anybody else who has a question or a comment, I would love, please reach out to me anytime here in the group.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, go check out my homeschool village.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_00: Click the link below above, click that link, go click it and go to, or you can go to the link in my bio where the link is as well.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_00: We host everything on this platform called School S-K-O-O-L.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not that I can't spell it.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's just literally the platform that we are hosting this on.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you get in there and then it is a seven-day free trial.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you can get in there, play around, see what you think um before you get charged, and let me know.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, have a great week.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: I will see you then.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's the rep for today.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're leaving with something real, something you can actually use.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: This is a long game.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to get it all right today.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_00: Just show up tomorrow.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's enough.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_00: If this episode helped you, share it with another mom who needs it.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're ready for a village to do this with, find us in the show notes.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: And until next time, keep going.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_00: The revolution starts at home.