You have completely relieved the pressure I feel about all of this. Thank you!!

THANK YOU. The whole perfect aesthetic thing gets me...its like kids dont even live in their home at all.

This is very interesting! I subscribed to your email course to learn more. I first learned about discipline from the book “Dare to Discipline” by Dr. Dobson. But I am curious to learn more about the child training aspect of it.

So relaxed watching this. Thanks sis.

Great video, and a hello from way up in Canada! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

I needed to hear this! Thank you🙏

So happy to see you again! We are on year 3 of MOH. We love our Mcguffeys and MUS as well! Thank you for keeping in real and simple. From an American mom of 8. ❤

Really needed this! ❤ Thank you!

Great to see a new vid! I totally relate to those feelings sometimes of "am I doing enough" because we don't do much 'book work'. I think that comes from outside noise that's been ingrained in a lot of people that if there isn't paper and sitting down involved it isn't learning. So hard not to let those 'norms' seep in from time to time. I love the idea of always keeping your why and ultimate goal in mind!

Your child training series is helping me and our whole family tremendously. I’ve never found such practical and honest child-training and discipline advice anywhere. Thank you!!! I am frankly in awe of your knowledge in this arena. It’s impressive and such a blessing to us moms who have struggled to figure out these basic practices and principles and perhaps never had it modeled in our own families growing up. I look forward to whatever else you have to share!

Thank you for the great videos!❤

I needed this reminder very badly in my current season, thank you ❤️

🙂Hello! Thank you for this video. This is not at all homeschool related, but I heard just a few days ago that families in Australia find it hard to heat their homes due to the extreme expense. I happened across this video and noticed you all have layers of clothing on. Your video seems to confirm what I heard. Is this because on the high expense to heat your home? Sorry to ask, but I and most Americans probably don’t realize this.

Thanks for sharing ❤.

I was literally rewatching a bunch of your older videos today, wishing to see you pop back on soon. Thank you! Your voice in the homeschool KZbin community is so refreshing ❤️

Thank you for your videos. I'm a second-generation homeschool mom of 4 in Canada. I ordered the mcguffey set, and l'm loving working with my kids in a new light. Both my kids and l are loving the renewed dicapline in our household. It is so peaceful. I had our fourth baby in April and needed surgery. The kids went totally wild (like feral) while l was out of commission recovering. Now, we are recovering our peace and order. Your videos are so spot on, frank, and real. They have been very comforting to me and reassuring. Truely, thank you.❤🇨🇦 🇦🇺

your a great mom I admire you greatly

Thank you so much, that’s helpful. My kid still little under 3 and I’m trying to get all the information I could. ❤️

Thank you for these videos! My older one is turning 3 and is starting to show more challenging behavior I want to nip it in the bud, trying to get all the sound advice I can! 😅

Beautiful! Thanks you for sharing.

Been homeschooling for 17 years as well, and not only do I not buy it but I feel sad that others may put undue pressure on themselves and their families. Homeschooling is a life style and just like every day life is messy and full of tears and filled with joyful moments. It’s sacrificial and you often second guess yourself, but it’s honestly the most rewarding path if you are honest with yourself and definitely if you do it to lead your little ones to Christ ❤

I like the idea of having one on one time and of having the children. I think this is an area where I have been failing lately. My oldest two are 2 years apart in age but about the same level with reading and math so I’ve been teaching them together without a lot of progress. I don’t know why I didn’t think of just teaching them individually, but I think that would be a huge help for their confidence. So thank you for the suggestion. I also really like the idea of having the children create their own flash cards. I’m also not a natural at that type of learning but at least one of my children is. I would love to hear more about your mom’s creative ideas.

Thank you for your video,it’s so helpful. I’m just getting ready to start teaching my third boy to read. I really screwed up teaching my first two but lately we have been making progress despite my mistakes. It sounds like my mistakes were like yours. I wish a video like this existed when i was getting started and I hope this will help lots of new homeschooling families. I really like the train car flashcards you show in the video. I did download your free ones but I’m wondering if I’m supposed to teach the picture card alongside a letter card or separately at first?

Thank you! I am just starting out. I have noticed myself trying to power through, but felt compelled to continue. “I want to feel competent as a homeschooler” is a wonderful articulation that will help me so much! Slow and steady is so hard when others are constantly evaluating. It is so helpful to have it articulated that my role is to hover and assess. This was wonderfully encouraging!

Does anyone know a good, secular & comprehensive core knowledge workbook that I could use for my daughter. She’ll be starting 1st grade in August and I don’t want a bunch of clutter & an easy way to keep track of her progress. I also would like to find a comprehensive & affordable online option in case she wants a break from traditional school work. Any suggestions or advice would be well appreciated…

I recently purchased wise words for moms by Ginger Hubbard to help me child train. I thought that might be helpful for everyone

I'm really grateful. Your videos came by the grace of God in just the right season. Thank you

Thank you for this! I know it’s been about a year since this video but I would really appreciate your thoughts on how to time block/manage my day with a full time 9-5 job which I work remote while taking care of my 8 month old. I am also trying to prepare for exams later this year. I am so overwhelmed all the time and feel like all my glass balls are falling and cracking. I’d appreciate any help you can give. Thanks in advance!

Late to watching, but I still enjoyed it! Loved the change in style. I also really liked seeing you make pumpkin pie! Is it common in Australia? I thought it was mostly an American thing. I remember someone from the UK commenting that it sounded like a very odd dish to them.

This is a wonderful video.

Please forget these comments about how harmful it is to train your child. Im guessing they don't truly understand loving Biblical training. Thank you for speaking truth and encouraging us!

Standing on the promises by Doug Wilson has been such an encouragement and so much practical wisdom on training for the long game as a Christian. Can't recommend it enough.

Its 100F here in Texas USA so its fun to feel your cozy Aussie vibe right now. Lovely. And your nails look so pretty

Thank you! Even my daughter is begging me for a "school room" because her homeschool friends have beautiful rooms and homes. It's just not my style, we have a family room with a nice table and a chalkboard we framed in on our wall, aside from that, thats about as much of a "school room" that we have. Would it be nice to have? Sure! But I think its important to teach them that just because they see a pretty room, doesn't mean their homeschool is what it should be. Not saying education doesn't happen there, but sometimes it can be just for show. We focus a lot on character, virtues, etc and it's not as pretty or easy as everyone makes it seem. Homeschooling IS hard and can lead to burnout and I don't think it's talked about because a lot of youtubers are trying to "sell" you something that just isn't realistic. Thank you for this video!

While this is not your typical style of video it’s great ❤️Nice change up

Beautiful views out of your window, very relaxing 😌

The pink stuff dies at 143 degrees. So it's safe to eat bread made with this. So good practices of trying to get rid of it is fine.

I came up with the same exact conclusion after 2 years of homeschooling, wait till your child develop is the main key.

I love your videos, I am from Brazil and our culture has changed so drastically over the years. My parents were very much the ultimate authority in our house. I used to answer them as “sim senhor (a)! We had an amazing and secure home 💕🧡

Wow! Hey, new subscriber here! 👋And a fellow homeschool Mum from the UK (although we call it home education). Finding your videos so refreshing - thank you. Totally agree with you on not starting kids too young, and it can be so hard to go against that 'norm' and people think your kids should be fluent readers by age 6 😆.

Super super helpful! Thank you!!

Thank you!! This is GREAT!

Hey! New subscriber here. Just for some context, how old are your kids? U say they are all very young but I also heard u say u have a highschooler lol sorry for the confusion 🤣

You. are. AWESOME ! *clapping!

You're doing SO great! I would LOVE to know some of yours and your mother's ideas or suggestions for incorporating more 'creative' ideas for reading lessons like you mentioned painting and getting them to do their own flash cards etc. Would love to know what you do or a resource with some ideas that you pull from perhaps? Thanks in advance and God bless you and your family abundantly awesome mamma!

Love this!! Which math curriculum are you using with your son?? X

Thank you for your help and i appreciate hearing what you've learned. A lot of people have their kids spread out and although that has its own challenges i can't relate much at all. I have six kids 7 and under and my oldest is very advanced and I have a set of twins who want to be a part of everything and I have a struggling reader... I've been thinking about group learning and appointments, I just didn’t have a name for it. Do you have a video about how you make and keep to your timetable? Also, I find myself becoming very mentally exhausted after school time. What do you do to rejuvenate?

We also love and use Math U See, Mystery of History, and Apologia❤. Have you tried The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts? Its free online (pdf) even the readers are on there and the answer book. We always buy it but this we are using the free version because its getting revamped and i want to purchase the hard copy of the new one for the rest of the kidds.❤

Which Atlas are you using under the Mystery of History Book? 11:50

Love this video! Especially the appointments. Great idea! ❤