E121: Why This Mom of 6 Says Homeschooling is Practical

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

For parents who want to be intentional about how their children are formed, homeschooling is often attractive, yet for many families it can seem like an impractical pipe dream. Today I sit down with Sarah Mackenzie, founder and host of Read-Aloud Revival, to discuss all things homeschooling. We discuss many of the common hesitations people have to homeschooling, the familial benefits of a shared learning environment, the importance of intergenerational education, how to homeschool if both parents have to work, many resources for homeschooling, and much more.

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0:00.0	I want to get into for somebody considering homeschooling like where they should even start.
0:04.6	How does homeschooling work for families that have a lot of work?
0:07.4	How many hours per day as a homeschool parent should I be homeschooling?
0:11.0	I'm so glad you asked this.
0:12.1	Would you say homeschooling is actually
0:13.7	the best option? Homeschooling just doesn't look like traditional school. If this doesn't need to.
0:18.8	When my oldest were 12, 10, and 8, we had a one-year-old and twin newborns.
0:24.0	And there was not a lot of formal education going on.
0:27.3	How does that work?
0:28.1	I think we have this expectation that if we don't do these things exactly how
0:32.1	the school systems prescribes that they should be done,
0:34.4	they won't be ready.
0:35.4	And we sort of discount the fact that a lot of things are learned in the course of normal everyday life.
0:41.1	Welcome. Welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast. Today we're going to be talking with
0:47.9	Sarah Mackenzie about homeschooling. Consider this episode your
0:51.3	primer on homeschooling if you consider doing it.
0:53.7	Maybe you have kids and you're thinking about pulling your kids out of school.
0:56.6	You're going to be having kids and you're wondering how to educate them or you don't
0:59.9	even have kids. You're not even married yet, but you're interested in one day
1:03.2	maybe exploring homeschooling. As you guys know, I was homeschooled, my husband was
1:07.0	homeschooled for part of his education and I had an amazing experience
1:09.9	with it. Sarah is going to break down how to get started, how to discern if it's for you, how to overcome
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