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The Real Reason Your Child Won't Learn · Homeschool Revolution

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Homeschool Revolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rebecca Stromsdorfer, Homeschool Mama 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, I'm 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 a revolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, Rebecca here, homeschool mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two, five children for over 20 years, and I'm sitting outside my children's music lesson and waiting for them to do their lessons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now, the focus inside my homeschool village and that I'm focusing on is helping parents heal their children as you homeschool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So homeschooling should be about healing first, not academics, not what curriculum you use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody who tells you that it's about the curriculum is totally wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: And any curriculum that doesn't focus on that healing first, maybe you should keep looking.
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  SPEAKER_00: All programs, and this is one of the biggest holes I find in the homeschool community in this homeschool world, is everybody is thinking reading, writing, math, history science.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and those things are important, but not as important as teaching your child that healing is vital.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to heal their bodies.
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  SPEAKER_00: When stress comes, what do you do?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you feel high anxiety, what do you do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, how do we sleep better?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we eat better?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we take care of our bodies better and exercise?
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  SPEAKER_00: These are things that schools will tell them, but they're not going to really be able to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, most of us were raised in the public school system without the ability to even know these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're still trying to give ourselves permission to even feel it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but we don't have to do that to our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our children can grow and heal and learn that they have times of hard work and times of healing and times of suffering and times of great joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are things that we need to teach our children is part of life and how that works.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, these are things that we need to learn alongside with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you learn this?
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  SPEAKER_00: You go to my homeschool village, you sign up for, well, actually, just go to the link in my bio and get the free guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: The guide is going to help you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to show you how to start homeschooling through healing first.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've been homeschooling for a while, still get the guide because if you're struggling in homeschooling, you probably need to take a few steps back and get the healing first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your children who are broken cannot learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will not learn if they're not getting enough sleep, a good diet, if there's something broken inside them, they can't be taught.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can't.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a child who is healed, a child who is whole cannot be stopped from learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will beg for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will seek it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will go after it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if your child is not learning right now and is refusing, there's something broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you need to step back and fix the child first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't fix the curriculum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't fix what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fix the child.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stop looking for excuses everywhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Tizim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're on I'm answering homeschool questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to heal your child in the homeschool world, how to keep them safe, how to keep them protected from the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we raise children that are protected from the world but still are learning about it and still know how to use it and work inside it?
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  SPEAKER_00: These are all things that I love to teach and love to help people with in the homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and yeah, I'm gonna just like walk around while I do this because this is when I have it while I'm waiting for my kids at their music classes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come on in and let me know if you have questions as we're talking about homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: The school system was not made.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, let's be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Has anybody walked into a public school lately?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, all you gotta do is be there for an hour before you're like, oh my gosh, I feel filthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to like go home and shower.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not the kids, you guys, it's what they're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the crap going on, it's the bullying, it's the back taught.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just this horrible, horrible atmosphere that so many people think is normal now and and are fine with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't understand that, but okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our children deserve better, and they deserve better, and we should be bringing them home and homeschooling them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're not homeschooling because you're afraid you don't know what to do, go get my free guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will show you exactly what to do, how to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then I'll even give you a course if you're interested in that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can grab the course where I get into even more detail on what that looks like and how it works.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so let's talk homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: What questions do you have?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a homeschool mom to five children for over 25 years, been a homeschool coach for over a decade, and I own my homeschool village, which is a safe place for you and your children to learn, grow, and thrive with other homeschool families.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if that's something you're looking for, make sure you're checking out the link in the bio.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, hi Andrea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love to have you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, let me know what questions you have, and if there's some way I can help you in your homeschooling journey, if that's where you're at.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no question that I won't answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And although I'm an open book, I will tell you how I failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you the things I did wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you things I wish I had fixed or done right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm really open to just about any question.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I don't like it, I'll let you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I might have to get out of the sun that's starting to feel a little warm.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here in Alabama, actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the humidity, we've only lived here about six months, and this humidity is new to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm from Utah where it is so dry you never even sweat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I'm in Alabama where you don't have to do anything to sweat.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a new world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Lauren.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what questions you might have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so I would love to help you with anything that you have in homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, I'll tell you all about my new free guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I just built this for you because I have been coaching so many moms, and I finally realized the commonality in most of their issues.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there were problems all over the board.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their kids won't learn, they were acting out, they didn't know where to start, um, all kinds of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, the commonality in all of them was they were broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mom was broken, kids were broken, and she was trying to get them to get their math done and get their English done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why won't they write in their journals?
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  SPEAKER_00: But the truth of it is, they've just been through trauma.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of these kids had dad just leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of these kids had been severely bullied in school, some had been attacked, they were dealing with severe issues, and mom was like, Why won't he do his math?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's go back a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've been talking about the healing process.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a healing process that needs to be had.
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  SPEAKER_00: Children who are broken cannot learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if your child is struggling physically because they're not getting enough sleep or food, or because they've been through a traumatic experience, it is okay to pull back for a year and just focus on healing, the diet, the exercise, walking, sleeping, the things that they need, therapy even, and just heal and work on the healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll know the child is healing because they'll start to ask to learn things.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will look for ways to know more and learn because their brains will stop working on the problem that they've been dealing with and they will start wanting new problems to solve, which is their education.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you have a child who's in that broken stage, now this can also happen after years of homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to take breaks often.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll do six weeks on and a week off, and six weeks on and a week off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I realized I did that without even looking at the calendar just because that's how our bodies were working and it was fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we take a lot of maze and September's off because we're out playing all the public school kids are in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we take December off because we want to just enjoy the holiday.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do not spend the holiday stress like all these other families I'm seeing, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have learned to make our lives exactly what we want, how we want, when we want, and we're not dealing with all the stresses of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this sounds good to you and you're like, oh my gosh, help me do that, go get my free guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go click the link in the bio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you mention it right broken in the comments, it should automatically send to you.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure I sent that up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Courtney and Andrea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Lauren, hi, welcome, you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll answer any questions you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, there it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a 13-year-old son, sixth-year homeschooling, struggling with motivation and follow-through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this normal with his age?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, but yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's what's gonna happen: 13 to 15 year olds, especially boys.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's hitting a gross park.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, boys, I learned this from a mom who had eight boys in a homeschool conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had eight boys, and she literally said the ages between 13 and 15 for boys is absolutely the worst time to try and educate them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this public school system says differently, try going to a junior high and find out it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, because their bodies are changing so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need so much sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their hormones are absolute messes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a pullback time.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is when you actually pull back, let them sleep more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I promise you, at 16, they wake up, they're four feet taller and they're so much more fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have to give them the sleep.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: I have two boys of my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have one that's 14 right now, and he's just starting to wake up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from when he turned 13 to 14, he grew two feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I let this boy sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes he woke up at 3 p.m., would get up and hang with us for a few hours and still go back to bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I fought it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt like a total terrible mother, but I let him do it and he has grown.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now all of a sudden, he's waking up and he's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he will do this again, I know, in a couple years, maybe in a year, because he's not done growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all my boys have done this.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've gone through these phases of please just let me sleep, mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, this is normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the time for motivation.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the time for him to decide who he is or who he's going to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the time for him to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let his body grow, let his body heal.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Does that help, Andrea?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because yeah, what you're doing, it's 100% normal for a 13-year-old to have no motivation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, he's not going to have motivation for several years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And try not to get frustrated.
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  SPEAKER_00: He'll have days of motivation and days where he won't.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is why teen years are so hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: He needs to still be a boy, but he wants to be treated like a man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He still wants to sleep, but he's annoyed that everybody left him behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: You probably need to come join the community inside my homeschool village because we talk about this all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have found that the women who really um seem to thrive the most in my homeschool village have children between the ages of 10 and 14 because those ages are so rough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just it's 10 to 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes even nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, depending.
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  SPEAKER_00: But generally 10 to 14, most of our kids are going through an I need more sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check his diet, make sure there's not a lot of sugar in it, give him more protein.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: It does feel personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does do not take it personally.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is like I love that you said that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it does, and it's hard not to be offended by it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the second we take offense and make it about us, we hurt the child.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has nothing to do with the parent, it has nothing to do with mom and what kind of mother she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's appearing simply a boy who needs sleep and is growing and is turning into a man, and he needs this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find different ways for him to do things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you just go for rides.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a good time to find some new interests that are physical.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a good time to hit a lot of museums.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go look around, walk around.
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  SPEAKER_00: He'll start to absorb information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help him try to see if you can get him hooked on storybooks and like really long chapter books and let him just read all day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just some options.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, you know, I love that you said that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Highland Price.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that you said that it's hard not to take it personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I need to do some more videos on that because generally when moms are struggling in homeschooling, it's because we take it personally.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm being a bad mom and why we always turn it on ourselves.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like now that I've been through this with five children, I'm thinking, when did I become so self-absorbed that everything was my fault?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe it's not self-absorbed, but everything is our responsibility and everything is on us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when our kids misbehave, it's on us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is this is normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I recommend, I highly recommend you go get the book, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get it on Amazon because there's several chapters in there on teenagers and sleep and what scientifically they need.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's like 14 hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then their hormones screw them up, so they have a hard time sleeping at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they'll be like up at midnight to like three, and it's not their fault.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Make sure they don't have any devices that they can get on because this is a huge time where they get addicted to pornography.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you want to make sure that they uh don't have access to those things while you're asleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Big idea there, but hi Katie.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Does that help?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, taking it personally, um, that is the worst thing you can do, but it's also probably the most natural thing that we do.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: I had a friend call me the other day in tears because her 15-year-old daughter is pushing her away, and mom, you can't.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, What have I done?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do I fix this?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I had to talk her off the ledge, too.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's not you.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: A child is supposed to push their parent away at this age.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's part of the natural aspect, it's part of how they're grown, it's part of who they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to push us away, and we need to be the safe parent that allows them to push, but still is willing to be there when they need us, to be that one they'll hug, to be the one that they love on.
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  SPEAKER_00: To, you know, one day my son wants nothing to do with me, and the next day he's cuddling up to me and kissing me on the forehead, and the next day it's like, ew, gross mom.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: You just go with the flow on this, you guys.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Just know that all of this will pass.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then one day they hit like 18 and you're like, oh, you just gotta be cool.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then they're like, I'm moving out.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, but I worked so hard to make you cool.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: And now you're gonna go marry somebody else and give them all your coolness.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it's both sad and sweet at the same time.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that helps.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: I know that helps.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, other questions for me.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: What else do you guys got?
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  SPEAKER_00: How old are your kids?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what issues are you having with your homeschooling or with your child specifically?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Andrea, if you have more questions on that follow-up, happy to help on that.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I hope I'm not shaming you in any way.
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  SPEAKER_00: All your feelings are totally normal and valid.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we all know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like all of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't do that anymore because I've done this five times.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: But I had to do it five times.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I still have days where I'm like, mmm.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and the hardest part is when some of my daughter got married and she's bringing home her publicly schooled husband.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and he's watching my son sleep in while he's visiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, What are you doing?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: You need to get him up.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: And he starts telling me that I'm raising a lazy son.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked at him and I said, Leave him alone.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know what I'm doing.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: The boy needs to sleep.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Stop telling me.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, the world will tell you.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Don't let him sleep.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna raise a lazy child.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: You just la la la la la.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Trust your mama gut.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Trust the mama gut and ignore the people who don't know.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: The boy who's giving me the advice has never raised a teenage boy.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: He's the fourth of four boys.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: And he didn't go to his mother.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: He came to Miami to start engaging.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have families from Europe in your community?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yes! I love you, S's.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Would we benefit from subscribing?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Also, thank you for encouraging words.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I've let my children down in our first two homeschool years.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: So appreciate it.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Never do you let your children down.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: You don't.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's one of the mom guilt things.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I can help you with that.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have several in our community from Europe, and we are currently adding classes so that you guys have them too.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we have been doing um live classes in the afternoon because everybody was in the US and mostly on the East Coast, but we have grown so much now that we have quite a few in Europe.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Ireland, UK, uh, where's some of our others?
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, and so yes, we are adding classes so that your children can can participate as well.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, you would benefit from our community, not just our community, but all of our curriculums are worldwide.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: They work anywhere.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so you can also use all of our curriculums.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: And our history tends to be a little more American-based, but we can work on helping you find one that works for your country.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, that's helpful.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: He's my only one, so it's all new.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't have a phone, only one hour screen time daily.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: Piano reads from sun up until bedtime, and he has taekwondo five to six days a week.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, he's just turned his black off.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Andrea.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're doing an amazing job.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: I can't get my 13-year-old to do that.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: And you're saying he's not motivated?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome! I wish I could get my 13-year-old to do all that.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let me just can I just say I think you're worrying over nothing.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now let the boy sleep.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and this is what's happening.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: He's tired.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: He's so tired.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: He's doing all that.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: He is exhausted, and it's gonna get worse for a little while.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: So let him sleep in between, and that's okay.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: But well done, mama.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well done.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's beautiful.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's beautiful.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: I've actually just got my kids into some um fighting classes as well.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, I love this.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: And they would love to do five days a week, but I can't afford for both of them to do that right now.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: So good for you.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do we have people from Ontario, Canada?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: We do have Canadians.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Ontario specifically can't remember.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, we have several Canadians, quite a few Canadians in our group, actually.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Some of which have actually left Canada and are living in other areas but are Canadians, and then some who live in Canada.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, we do.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: But remember, our group is all online.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: So it really doesn't matter, you guys.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, we have them from Canada, we have some in South America, we have some on some of the islands.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: We have people from um, I think we had a Pakistani join us, and so we have them from all over the world.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: But remember, we are meeting online.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: So all of our classes are online Zoom.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: We have a chess club, we have Minecraft education, we have games that they're doing together and getting to know each other from all over the world.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: And it's so cool that all our kids are in there and mixed up and that they're chatting.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's a really cool opportunity for our kids to be able to interact with children from all over the world.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's really unique what we're doing here.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I've never seen a program who does it like us.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: And we're very big on making sure that the kids are interacting in the classes.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if they don't want to, they don't have to, but we want to give them every opportunity to be able to communicate and to bond and to hang out.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: And we have a lot of families who have connected so well inside the village that they also are connecting outside the village.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: They'll meet up for family vacations together, um, things like that.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it happens all the time.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, please come join us.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: I know you'd benefit from it.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: That would be amazing.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Tiffany.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: Come on in.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: How are things up in Ontario, by the way?
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: I know laws and everything.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm keeping really good track on um the states and the laws going on, but I haven't been keeping very good track of Canada.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Canada, Canadian.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: I tried to say that at the same time, that didn't come out well.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um how are homeschool laws for you guys?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Are you pretty free?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: So good laws in Canada, I hope.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm thrilled because I know you guys got other issues going on up there in Canada, and I'm hoping that the homeschool world is leaving you alone.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: At least there.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, so other questions.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: What else do you have for me?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Happy to answer, happy to help out.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, some things that we have inside the village.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you just join the community, okay,$25 a month, just join the community.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: But it's specifically for moms.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: So in the community, it's about strengthening mom because you are the center of the home.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're weak, everybody's weak.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're strong, everybody's strong.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so we focus on mom first.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you want to send up your kids, you join the full program and you get access to everything for you and your children.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Go to homeschool hoping to do it next year.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Looking at Christian Light, does it offer a teacher's guide?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: Does it offer teacher's guide then the children's butt?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Christian Light, I don't know what they offer.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's been a long time.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: When I was looking into them 20 years ago, it wasn't even the same thing as now.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I can't really help you with Christian Light and what they offer.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: My homeschool Village, we have partnered with 10 different online programs that are our favorites that you have access to at will.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you can go ahead and use this math and this science and this history, or maybe this one's not working for you, so use this one.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you choose your own curriculum.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I do it.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: So what we've done is we've provided a buffet of education.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: And we have partnered with these programs, and you get automatic access into all these programs without having to re-sign up or pay more.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so the membership gives you access to all 10 online programs.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's basically a buffet of education.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: You make your plate for child, and then we provide online live classes for your kids that are interactive.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we do.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, as I was always a do-it-yourselfer curriculum girl, and when we started, there was like a Becca and two others, I think.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um not a lot.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I pretty much kind of put it together and mixed and matched, and I got tired of doing that.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so I gathered with other moms and we kind of did it ourselves, and we found our favorites, the ones that weren't politically biased, the ones that weren't religiously biased, the ones that uh didn't have an agenda, the ones that didn't have ads, the ones that weren't actually leading our children secretly down a dark path.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them are doing that.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have vetted, and our top curriculums are all inside my homeschool village.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Makes our top list, it gets put inside my homeschool village.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And there's few that make it because we are betting them so carefully.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's what my homeschool village does.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: We give you the vetted curriculums that are not Christian based.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're not any religion based.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're fact-based.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because we have all kinds of religions in there.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Together we learn I don't know about either.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: So doing your program we don't teach, you do, it's a mix.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: We teach the online classes, but our online classes aren't reading, writing, and English.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's more like electives.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: So they're built like Minecraft education where they're building together and working as a team.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's chess clubs, it's book clubs, it's our teenagers are gonna do an AI class.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're more electives and based on thinking, creative skills, negotiation, those types of things.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then your required stuff, reading, writing, math, they're on your plate, but we provide the curriculum for you.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So you can go in, they can either do it online or we give you other things that you can use at home.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: So no, we don't step in as a school.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: We're not a school, we're a resource library that provides everything you need to homeschool your children.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds great.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: We are from LAC.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, it will be harder to get permission to homeschool in our country.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, after you're so we are already looking for American school to register with.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, come with us.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have any suggestions?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: We would like to be as free in our schooling as possible.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: My homeschool village.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly where you want to be.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: We have created it so that you have everything you need to be as free as you want without having to spend all your time doing all like the research.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of bad curriculums out there.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I have got rid of them for you.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: They're inside my the good ones are inside my homeschool village.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Latvia.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you don't start right away, or do you have to be an American, like how does that work?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yike.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, if you register with us, we are technically a private online school, a private online homeschool.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: And if you need some form of paperwork for your country to say that you're with us, then we can send that for you.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: We're happy to do that.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: But because we are called a private online homeschool, we don't register or answer to any governmental institution because we also don't take government money.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we do that to keep our parents as free as possible in their education with their children.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: So help.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: I hope.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: She's our principal over our live classes.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: And she and I have been discussing a lot lately.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: We need more classes for our European families on the other side of the world.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so, yes, give me till fall.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: We've got some now.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: We have a summer program going right now.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so yes, it is happening.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: And your kids can get in right now and just join those classes.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: They started last week.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: But our classes aren't built on like a six-week time period.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: They're built that if you show up today, today you'll be fine.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's a couple that you don't want to jump in on, which is like our entrepreneur class.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: You want to wait for it to start again.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: But most of our classes are built for you to jump in at any time, for your kids to jump in at any time, and they'll just be fine.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: So we do schooling differently.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: We want our children to be welcome.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: We want education to be enjoyable.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: We want them to be able to bond with each other.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Our focus is healing, our focus is an excellent atmosphere for children.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Our focus is make learning fun and enjoyable, but you're still the parent, it's still your job, and you're still the one responsible for their education.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: We just provide all of the systems that you need to do it.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: But we're not gonna take over you as the parent.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's a big deal.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: We're not the school.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: And it's hard to explain until you get in there and dive in and see exactly how it is.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: You keep your freedom, you keep your choices, you decide how long your kids are gonna be doing their schoolwork, you decide what classes they're gonna attend, you decide how fast they need to learn and how slow they need to learn, you decide what levels they need to be.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: But we give you here's K through 12 science, and this is our favorite science because it's good and our kids love it.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so if your kids fifth grade, just go in in the fifth grade science.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: But if they need more help in reading because maybe they're dyslexic, use this program.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: This will help them to strengthen their reading.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so we have all that insight.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: I hope I'm not overwhelming you with this.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to explain because nobody has created what I've created.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: I created this after 10 years of homeschooling and putting together the program that didn't exist, that I wanted to exist for my own children.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: And other moms were like, this is awesome.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: I want in too.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: And more and more women joined until now we have um this amazing, beautiful group because we are all in this together.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's literally like this sisterhood of women homeschooling together and coming up with better ideas, and we were constantly changing and upgrading and benefiting because our women or our women, the people inside the group, are giving us feedback and we're constantly making it better.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's just something we're always working on.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: I need to stop asking that question.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: I've been told that's a funny question.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, anything else?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: How much is it?
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: So if you just want the community with the moms, it's$25 a month.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: And that will give you everything you need as the mom.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you want your children involved, you get everything when your kids join.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: One child is$99 a month.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Two or more is$199 a month.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have three kids, it's like you pay for two, you get the third one free.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you got four and five and six kids, guess who's free too?
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's$199 for the family.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: $99 for one kid.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then we give you all your logins, all your accesses, everything you need, and your children can come in and do the classes.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: So very affordable.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very affordable.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Other programs who have even half what we have are charging up to$500 a month, you guys, and they don't even do half of what we've got.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: So it's extremely affordable and extremely supportive.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I have not met anybody or seen any program who's even touched what we offer you and the support and the guidance and the resources, like nobody on earth has done what we have done.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: So make sure you go check it out.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not like if you want to pay for the year, you get three months free.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: So pay for the full year and you're only paying for nine months.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas you pay monthly and you can quit anytime.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: If you go in there in a month and you're like, mm, it doesn't fit my schedule or whatever, that's fine too.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I can guarantee you, you're gonna love it.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because if once you dive in and once you get in there, it's amazing.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I know you and your children are going to thrive because the whole point is a safe atmosphere for you and your children to learn to grow to thrive.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you go check out my homeschool village, get the link in the bio.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can start it out with my course if you want.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's only$47, and you can go grab that.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's all in the bio.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know if you have questions.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can DM me, um, DM me, whatever platform we're on, tells you something different.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: But you're welcome to private message me, and I always get back to everybody.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: So have a great week, you guys.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining me, and I will see you later.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's the wrap for today.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're leaving with something real, something you can actually use.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is a long game.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to get it all right today.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just show up tomorrow.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's enough.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: If this episode helped you, share it with another mom who needs it.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're ready for a village to do this with, five us in the show notes.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, keep going.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: The revolution starts it all.