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In today’s episode, I’m addressing some of the reasons why we, as parents, choose to homeschool our children. I’m also sharing a little bit of our own story and why we decided to go this route. I hope this episode will be enlightening to those of you who are planning to homeschool your children. Enjoy!

10 Key Takeaways

1. A lot of the things that I really value about education are not built into the system that we consider as traditional schooling.
2. Every child is different. We must see how they differ in the way that they learn and what lights them up.
3. Unschooling is giving a child lots of time to learn in multiple ways, much of which is in the real world.
4. According to an article I recently read, you can actually do all of the schooling that your child needs within two hours every day.
5. For us, homeschooling/unschooling has been quite beautiful. But it sometimes feels like the absolute hardest path that I could have chosen because we are together all the time. Togetherness may be what you’re seeking, but it doesn’t give you a lot of opportunities for breaks in the day.
6. Traditional standardized testing can be very stressful for children.
7. Teachers have beautiful intentions for their students. They want to give kids the help that they need. They want to challenge kids. They want to grow these kids’ creativity. But there’s so much to do and to deal with in a traditional school day that these intentions get squashed by paperwork and procedure.
8. The longer I do homeschooling, the more I feel that stripping away some of the formal structures of public education has been good for us.
9. With regard to freedom and flexibility, homeschooling is beautiful.
10. Homeschooling seems to be attractive to parents who are into being intentional and making life choices about exactly how they want their day and their lives to look like.

Quotes

“There’s just been so much learning that goes on outside of sitting at a desk.”

“As we learn more, we may choose differently.”

Action Step

• If you want to learn more about homeschooling, I have some articles on the topic on my blog. You can find them here. Send me a message through my contact form and let me know if this is something of interest to you and if you’d like more content on this topic. 

Thank you for listening! 

Resources Mentioned

Weapons of Mass Instruction

Montessori from the Start

Articles on Homeschooling on TheTruthAboutLiving.com

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