How do I get a certificate for my son that he completed his first grade from homeschool??

Love to heare frome someone that are able and open to talk ab BOUTH ways, most often I see ppl that are SUPER rigid in one extreame corner, for or against one or the other, I LOVE to here thoughts from some kind of middle ground. (My most reasont "mum shaming thoughts" have been around the idéa frome some that just because you dont put your 1 year olds in daycare means you are "locking him/her up" at home in total isolation 😅😅😅 almost like thouse scary ppl you see in the news some times.... We meet sooo many ppl and I work SO hard on making the kiddos have healthy, happy experiences with ppl their age! Althought I have so far been a part of the interactions (up close or "from afar" and been able to jump in and help them navigate situations they yet were not able to handle them selfes (like a 1 year old cant "reason" who should play with the toy they bouth want... I have seen over and over again with preeschool kids that many in that situation learn to fight, kick, bite etc my kiddos have never had to learn to solve problems in that way. Which Im glad for. For us 3 was a good age to PART TIME go to a day care group and play alone a portion of the day (so i can take care of my health (work out and make healthy food etc) and work (I do/try the 2-3 houer focused time as you talked about with your kids but with my job now). My main thoughts are that kids should not feel scared, abandoned or alone as for example if they would go to a bad preeschool where the grownups are bad or dont have enought time to do a good job, BUT I also think, if the place is really good, almost like beeing at a loving grandparents place, then it can be amazing! I do think its importante to talk about it in this open way (and flexible (time/age/personal need/want) that bouth ways have hood and bad things and in a perfect world a mix might be good in different situations and times during childhood.

I am glad you shared your story. Very honest and balanced

Thanks for the video. Our eldest went to public school kindergarten. I really wanted to homeschool so we pulled her out. Next year, she'll be going back to public school for sixth grade. The need for peers was a big determining factor. It was really encouraging to hear you say your children were able to thrive in the middle school setting.

Really enjoyed this video! Thank you! You are so well spoken and easy to understand. So curious about what your day looks like after you are done the school portion? Also, would love a deep dive into the trello and how you use it for homeschooling. Thanks!

I refused to put my kids in public school when they were younger. The schools in my area are crap, all levels. We never stopped homeschooling until they finished 12th grade. Both have now graduated, and they're getting their GEDs, just to make it easier to get into secondary education without jumping through hoops. They got a lot of interaction with other kids through church, our homeschool group, and their groups/hobbies, as well as volunteering at their dance and ballet schools for years. We also sent them to co-op classes, just so they'd know what a classroom was like and to allow them to learn from someone other than me. I used to threaten them with public school when they acted up. They totally did not want that! I gave them achievement tests every year, just to make sure I was doing a good job. They always scored years above their actual grade level. I'm not sure that was because I was a great teacher (I wasn't), just maybe they take after their dad and are pretty smart. Now that they're adults, they have no regrets about being homeschooled. They are both working before college or vocational school, once they make up their minds about what they want to be. I feel like the lack of the pressure that I had to go to college right immediately after graduation I got when I was in high school has allowed them the freedom to realize they don't have to decide on their careers until they're more mature.

I appreciated hearing everything you had to say here. You also gave me useful framing of 'unmonitored comments' that is more graceful than what I was using in my mind to describe interactions between undersupervised kids at public school. I would add a caveat that not all countries are flexible about in or out. I live in Spain where homeschooling is a gray area because according to the Constitution it is legal, but according to education law it isn't. Local schools will not hold a place for you if you are not fully enrolled, nor do they accommodate mid-year changes unless there are extenuating circumstances like a documented move or refugee status. If you don't jump a lot of hoops to demonstrate that you're homeschooling in a way that's been dictated you may run afoul of the equivalent of child protective services. This may include passing tests in a local language. It kind of defeats the purpose for a lot of parents. I'm American and have ten-year-old neurodivergent twins. My kids attend a Catalan public school but I am essentially giving them a parallel home education in English. I'm trying to best meet their needs and leave the door open to living or continuing their schooling in the US if they want to later. Literacy skills in English have been my primary focus. (We do some supplemental math and science to make sure their vocabulary is strong.) I'm considering downshifting to mostly 'pleasure reading' from our quality home library. We are at a place where a steady supply of good books would probably be enough to ease my anxiety about meeting their educational needs, but maybe I'm not 100 percent there since here I am commenting on your video :) Does your 'two hour' estimate includes your kids' independent reading time? Or does it reflect the time in which you're doing structured instruction?

After chaperoning a middle school dance, I want to homeschool my kids. 🤣🤣

Great that you have this choice. I wonder if my mom would have chosen to homeschool if we hadn't been broke. She had to work. Also, great that you didn't shame public schools. That's what people have been doing lately and it makes me so uncomfy! as a public school teacher!

We homeschooled all 4 of ours all the way start to finish. They all did some PSEO (Post Secondary Enrollment Option where they can take college classes while still in HS). Academically ours were always way ahead of their public schooled peers in all subjects, except for spelling which they were on grade level in. (We aren't great spellers, lol) Socially they were all way ahead as well. We ran a family business in which they were all involved. They could carry on a conversation with adults and children of all ages, they weren't stuck in a rut of only being able to communicate with people their own age. I never considered sending them to the public school, and I have absolutely no regrets. Our kids were in piano lessons, homeschool bands, orchestras, speech classes, coops, went on field trips, made up their own plays, played on basket ball teams, one played football for 3 years of high school and was the quarterback even. 3 of them have college degrees, one from an Ivy league school. The one that doesn't have a degree went straight into business and has a good career, coaches his daughters basketball and softball teams and plays on a softball team himself. One daughter and her husband run the same type of business that we ran as a family, and they are even more successful that we were. 3 of ours had some degree of dyslexia (part of the spelling challenges) but totally overcame that learning challenge without being labeled or tested by public school "officials." I do not have a degree, and neither did my husband at the time we were homeschooling, yet we were highly successful at homeschooling. All but 2 of our 10 grandchildren are being or will be homeschooled as well. The 2 that aren't will be in a charter school. 😀

So I home schooled my oldest 7-9th and he wanted to go a vocational public high school to learn trade. so we called and applied as a home schooler. They accepted our transcript, and he went for the 10th grade year. One month before school ended last week, the school contacted me saying they could not accept his credits, and he would have to do 11th grade and the 9th grade next year in order to keep his spot. He's pretty upset. I can't get any help from Ohio Department of Ed they have no one who deals with this issue. They can't explain the law in practice they have listed. Can't find an attorney to even listen to the case. I would suggest anyone home educating to figure out high school before 9th grade become going in and out in not easy.

My son home schooled grade 4 to 7 He did one hour a week in math He is now in school as an 8th grader . He’s got an A in algebra one .

Thank you for this video. I am in the beginning, and I want to try.

WOW. Your open-mindedness and unbiased opinions are the refreshment my soul needed today. You are an amazing woman. Your children are blessed to have you as a mother and I hope they know that. I pray the best for your family always. <3 I was homeschooled, and now homeschool our 3 kids and plan to keep it that way. But plans can change. ;) Thank you for the video. I am bookmarking this for hard days when I need a reminder that you can always change course when you feel you need to.

People don’t realize… the school day is filled with off task nonsense. So in reality public and private school kids all typically have 2-3 hours of meaningful lessons and work (and that’s with an outstanding teacher and a decent group of peers in the classroom)

I think this is a great plan even for adults to concentrate and get work done bc long periods of concentration is so difficult. 10 or 18 min sounds very doable and motivates kids to focus rather than feel time is dragging on. Do you just set a timer and they move on to the next thing? What if they want to spend longer doing a certain subject? Do they do it at that time, or do it after the 2hrs done?

Thanks for sharing! :)

This was informative. Thank you for sharing your experiences and tips honestly.

I just found your video tonight. I agree with what you said throughout the video. Every family is different so what works for one family may not work for another. Thank you for sharing your story. I am homeschooling my 6 year old son. Some days, it can be a struggle and other days he loves it. He finds me a boring teacher. I think I just need to find a was to change it up for him.

I needed this 🫶🏾

I’m struggling to decide if I want to do private homeschooling, me schooling them at home or do a virtual online school through my school district it’s free. All they have to do is complete all their assignments for the day to be marked as present and if needed they can get extra help. Also we have to meet with their teacher once a month. I feel like I’m a bad mom if I don’t private home school my kids myself.

I’m struggling to decide if I want to do private homeschooling, me schooling them at home or do a virtual online school through my school district it’s free. All they have to do is complete all their assignments for the day to be marked as present and if needed they can get extra help. Also we have to meet with their teacher once a month. I feel like I’m a bad mom if I don’t private home school my kids myself.

Thank you for this video. We have homeschooled for the last three years and in this fourth year my boys are 6 & 8 grade and we are thinking about public high school. I wish there were other options in our area to have quality peer opportunities and the kind of education that is tailored to them.

This is very timely for me. Thank you!

This video is seriously, a balm to my soul. We have five, and I’ve been struggling to figure out if we should do homeschool or public school. But I’ve felt the weight of making a decision that we have to stick with for the next 18 years (our youngest isn’t quite one). I haven’t considered that public and homeschool may be something that changes by seasons, and that we may have some at home and some at school. Thank you so much for the clarity, positivity and openness!! ❤

My kids went this year for the first time in 5th and 2nd grade, too!

Just found you. Good stuff !!!

I was public schooled. That doesn't mean I talked to anyone. Or had any friends. And once I graduated, I didn't really know how to talk to anyone that wasn't my peer. You don't just magically learn social skills because you're surrounded by people your age. Thank you for the video. I'm committed to homeschool my kids all the way through, but I'll try to be more open minded as they get older.

What curriculum do you use? For Math and Language Art. I love the concept but am struggling to wrap around the practical side of this.

Being socially awkward is a character trait.

Both men and women need to hear this episode. Your perspective on depression is unique, helpful, and gives hope. It's something not presented from anyone else but needs to be.

I always understood "being socialized" not only as learning to navigate social situations but also learning social skills like asking adults for help, how to be polite, taking turns etc. Which would be more of an issue for an only child than one that is growing up with siblings. The principal of my older son''s school asked the parents of future students to start "socializing" the kids for school the year before instead of teaching them numbers or letters. Some of the examples he gave was learning to wipe up their own spills, finish board or card games that they started instead of switching activities and learning to wait for replies, for example if they ask many questions about dinosaurs, scheduling a Google assisted dino Q&A later that day.

By 2 hours a day, do you mean 2 hours of one on one time with each child or did you have all of them doing school work for 2 hours at the same time?

Did you use box curriculum or did you do the " unschooling "? Thank you for sharing.

What state were living you in when you sent them to school?

Schools are typically designed for the feminine personality. Children who are active, need to move around, and don’t enjoy or need all the social aspects of it , or even may just need more individual time don’t seem to thrive so well. I have had children in each situation and I absolutely hated that hard shell you talked about. How awful to be so young and already learn that you need to protect yourself that way. It has been my experience that once it is developed, sometimes that hard shell doesn’t or won’t come down even in nurturing situations- it can become a permanent fixture in life. 😢

New subscriber here. This isn’t something I normally comment on but I just wanted to genuinely compliment you on your video format. I really loved how straightforward and informative this was, without getting too lost in the weeds with details. Right now I just have a toddler plus one on the way, and my husband and I are highly interested in homeschooling. Your video gave a very refreshing perspective on how it can be done. Thanks ❤

Great video! My oldest is going into 8th and has been asking more about going to public school. We are open to it and I have contacted the high school she would attend in 9th. It appears we could maybe do classes part time there…which would be so awesome for her. I love that we can all choose what works for our families and our kids! I’m a new subscriber. I also have a homeschool youtube channel.

As a homeschooled kid, being sent to public school sounds like a nightmare. I am years ahead in math and I have plenty of friends. I'd be bored out of my mind at public school.

I quit home schooling and sent my kids to a public school and it was the best decision I ever made!

Why? Why would you do that?

This perspective is so refreshing!! I am very grateful you shared this. We homeschooled for 2.5 years… (Yes, Covid gave us a good excuse to try what I had always wanted to do! And we stuck with it for two extra years.) Then we moved states and my kids wanted to go to public school in order to make new friends. It absolutely felt like the right decision! (We moved to a far-superior school district.) And now we are changing it up again, and next year I am bringing my two younger ones home, and my upcoming 8th and 11th graders are going to stay in public school. This actually puts us in a surprisingly strange position. As I try to make new friends in the homeschool community here it feels like they think I’m crazy to let 2 of my kids stay in public school. But they’re having a very positive experience! It doesn’t have to be one or the other. I just feel like now all of *my* peers on both sides of the schooling aisle think I’m crazy and don’t really belong in their “camp.” I hope you continue to share your experience with kids in homeschool and public school. I will definitely be following along. I also agree wholeheartedly with your point about having a solid sense of self. I think our years homeschooling prepared my kids to jump back into school and thrive. Also, fwiw, my daughter who was homeschooled for basically all of middle school jumped into AP and honors classes at the HS and is absolutely up to snuff academically. ☺️ Intentional homeschool is completely sufficient for a child’s academic needs.

😂you are missing out. I didnt know how to play. I only knew work. I had to learn to play with my kids. Start by going to the park or take a play ball in the back yard and toss it around. Play cars or play dolls whatever your kids prefer. Get a puzzle with large size pieces and put it together. Color a picture together. Dont miss out. Get involved.

I glad my parents had the time to raise me right ❤😂🎉 this is just sad😢

Im so glad my mom started teaching me ALL the chores in the house when i was 7 and not leaving me with no resources❤

The part of the problem

So right..

For someone suffering with depression & have no energy to do anything this is motivating :)

Thanks for the motivation!

Amazing. You gained another subscriber <3