Homeschooling has a lot of perks. If you send your kids back to public school, you may not completely lose these perks, but they are a heck of a lot harder to achieve! Spending extra time with your children and being immersed in their day-to-day learning creates a unique dynamic that you can't easily recreate when your children are at school all day. Join Janna, DeeDee and Ximena as they explore what you might lose if you stop homeschooling.
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QUOTABLES
Ximena: "... a lot of the things that scare parents is, 'I'm not qualified, I'm failing my kids,' right? But really what we want to end with ...is that our goal is to nurture a love of learning for them, right? Because once we teach them how to love learning, they can learn anything in life. So if you keep that as your number one goal, then your kids are going to be okay.
TIMESTAMPS
04:50 If you put your kids back in school, the biggest change will immediately be the lack of flexibility.
12:19 If you stop homeschooling, you'll lose personalized learning.
15:02 You won't be able to provide your kids that soothing, comfortable safe spot for learning (your home).
21:20 Life skills are more easily taught in a homeschool environment, things like cooking, cleaning, and handicrafts.
23:38 Ximena's daughter confided in her that she's afraid she'll grow up and not know how to do things and will make mistakes in life.
24:56 As a homeschooler, you can help your child learn problem solving with day-to-day situations. In a traditional school setting, a teacher has a lesson to teach and can't always make time for detours.
27:01 Why "I don't know" is such a great sentence to use as a homeschooler.
27:08 Socialization! Contrary to myth, homeschoolers actually have more opportunity for socialization and conflict resolution than kids in school.
30:34 Living life at an unhurried pace. Homeschooling gives you the gift of more time.
31:27 Quality control over what your kids are learning, how deep to go, the pace to work at, etc.
33:45 A homeschool mindset creates more of a love of learning and a lifestyle of curiosity compared to a traditional school mindset which focuses mainly on getting things done.
35:36 When we homeschool, we get to learn alongside our kids! It's fun to finally learn the things we missed in school (or forgot). We have so much fodder for great family conversations about history, science, and so on.
38:51 Homeschooling provides a very high quality of education that a traditional classroom cannot provide.
43:02 You'll read so many books together as a family as homeschoolers.
47:21 Ximena recalls her exhausted lifestyle when her daughter went to school.
SPECIAL SEGMENTS
01:02 Hack of the Week —Frequent timed breaks
20:28 A Memorable Thought — Enjoy your kids more.
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