I want to try this, but when i ask my 13 year old daughter what she thinks and when i ask for suggestions to make things better for her, she just shrugs her shoulders 😮‍💨.

I'm so happy I found your channel. Thank you for all these practical tips! I'm feeling more confident as we move closer toward HS.

In Idaho, is it permissible to take economics in middle school and count it for high school?

As a fellow homeschooling mom, I can appreciate your perspective. I also agree with a lot of your method if the other person is open-minded and interested. However, if they're not, it's also okay to just leave it as, "This is what we feel is the best for our family at this time," and leave it at that. People can't really argue with that. I do disagree that we need to apologize for not talking to other family members first before our decision, even our parents. As adults and parents ourselves, we are responsible for our decisions for our own kids, whether or not our parents agree with or have given their opinion. We can seek out their opinion and advice if we trust them for certain areas, but it's not healthy to go to our parents for every issue and seek their approval when we are married and should cleave to our spouse now. Parents are still important, but their views should not take priority over what we feel as a couple that God is leading us to for our own families. If we said it rudely, then yes, we need to own and apologize for that. But people-pleasing, over apologizing, and over explaining are not healthy behaviors and can be a huge drain on our time and energy. It's taken me a long time to realize that not everyone cares to hear my why or my side or aren't open-minded to learning, even those I thought were closer. To any homeschooling moms, do the best you can, and then even if others continue to not understand or approve or are critical, you keep going with what you feel is best for your family. Live your life, and others will watch. You can do this!

This video is so reassuring! My husband and I have been so lost trying everything to figure out how to love and understand our 14 year old daughter more. You make so many great points. Thank you for this video!

Thank you for directing this to the kids! So great to hear it from another... and actually experienced... mom! God bless.

That's such a sweet ending. Sad but true. That's why we do what we do... primarily for the Lord.

Good video! Thank you so much for the great encouragement

Sometimes planes have to roam to have a good trip! ;0) God bless

"I definitely have to subscribe" ;-) Just did! Thank you again for a great and helpful video. God bless.

I’d love to see the curriculum choices that eventually were used for the Highschool years

Thank you!!❤ please make a middle school prep video. 😅 What do I need to focus on? Actually in 5th grade.

Excellent video and so practical! You broke everything down in a way that I could see and understand. I have been very overwhelmed with high school (next year I will have a 9th grader) but I feel much more encouraged now. :) Thank you SO much!!

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Thank you, this was helpful!

It would be our first year…

I’m watching this help us make the decision to homeschool our 9th grader will be 10th next year … And just found out we can partner with the high school for the AP classes he will need coming from a private classical education school!!!! My younger two I feel are easier to bring home but yes we only have a few years left with our oldest and he’s amazing…I want whats best for him!!!

This is AMAZING!!!! Thank you for making and showing and doing all of this!!! 9th grader next year and I’m gathering alllll the info I can. This was so helpful. And you’re an amazing mom/woman.

Thank you! 🙏

I am a teenager and my stepmom doesn't do any of these 😭

Blessed to learn from you today. Thank you so much. I know I need to be more organized with our homeschool and I was praying to find a way how. True enough, the routine and schedule should be organized and be made visible. My other struggle has been record keeping, portfolio and grades--the part I least like. :( It has been very time consuming for me. Just wondering if you also have any tips on that. Thank you so much and God bless you!

Wisdom!

Do you have a video on what science curriculum with labs that you use?

How about you telling your background knowledge of subject levels? What do you teach exactly?

Just found your channel and love it! As a visual learner, this is the best explanation of routines I have seen yet. And realistic/doable unlike some of these others that are so complicated and unrealistic to maintain over the long term. Thank you!

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Hi! THANK YOU!!!! This is the second video of yours I have watched and you are a GIFT!!!! I can't wait to watch more as I get (make!!) time! I subscribed and am looking forward to getting to know you and learn from you! Have a great day! 😊

Loved this video.

Congratulations! Love your encouragement and so glad to see you blessed!

Congratulations! I just found your channel last weekend while researching homeschooling high school. Love your positive content!

Congratulations 🎉🎉Thank you for the positive content you put out there to us mamas! Your family is so cute celebrating with you. What a joy to share your moment as a family.

🎉❤So happy for you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!🎉❤

I love your channel…congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉❤

You are in rhe same boat as our channel. Though we are about 500 behind you still!❤🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations!❤❤❤

I'm so sorry for your loss. I am a new subscriber and have been going through your very encouraging videos. I have been homeschooling for 8 years now but high school is new territory. What did you do for high school science?

Do you think it is a good idea for my 14y.o. homeschool because she asked me to homeschool but I'm not really sure abt it also love your videos❤❤❤❤

Hello! Thank you so much for these videos about the Spelling Workout. I’m very interested in using this curriculum. The first video I watched was the walkthrough of the curriculum of you flipping through the books. It seemed like a lot of work for one week and that a child would just be trudging through getting it done. I like your simpler way of doing your lessons, I can see that it would make a student feel excited and happy to do the spelling, not overwhelmed, I can see they would have fun. I just have a clarifying question, do you only do one lesson a week then? You are just spreading that one lesson out into one week in four lessons so that they can have time to learn all the spelling words for that one lesson? If I’m correct how do you utilize the book for each grade level? Are you able to get through the entire book in one school year? If not, where do you begin the next school year…in the next level or where you left off? Thank you!

Idea: Homeschooling large age gaps. Ive homeschooled my 13 year old daughter for 7 years (since grade 2) and now have a 5 year old boy about to start K. Which means im starting HS for first time and doing K for first time. Overwhelming! Worried about how to switch gears throughout the day so they both get what they need from me.

You know I don't know since when the world has become so difficult that every single detail in life needs to be perfect and that for everyone there is always just one solution, it has become so exhausting. No wonder we have so little creativity, leadership and perseverance in this world. I am fine with everone doing their own thing, as you said it is what we think is best for our kids, that is all that counts.

Thank you so much!!!

Thank you for voicing this call to support one another! Mothers, whatever their choice on education, have enough challenges already. So let’s choose to support and encourage one another and spread a little of God’s love to someone who may really need it. ❤😊

Defund the Dept. Of Education and the Teacher’s Union. Parents must lose the passivity and become actively involved in their schools. Demand transparency and accountability.

I got many looks of disapproval when I answered the question of what do I do for work and said, "Laundry, dishes, cooking, cleaning, change diapers, feed pets....", because I chose to stay home with our kids and not work outside the home, from my women neighbors who were working outside the home. That was fun.

Well said!! I’ve noticed mom bashing a lot on Instagram. I’m just thinking about leaving it altogether and just sticking with KZbin because the intensity of Instagram takes a toll on my confidence to homeschool my own kids.

This is excellent advice!! Thank you for your expertise and wisdom 😊