Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 17.

I'm Ainsley Arment, here with Tina Engold, and today we're talking about getting started in homeschooling.

We talk about overcoming our fears, the legal requirements, what our homeschool days look like, and so much more.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

Music coffee and join us on the front. How do you get started? How do you take the plunge with homeschooling?

And so I always tell

moms who are considering homeschooling that the desire has to be there. You have to want to

teach your babies and realize that means being with them 24-7. I had a friend, this was several

years ago, but she told me that she could never homeschool because her kids drive her crazy.

And she said she wasn't necessarily called to motherhood, which I have a lot of opinions about that, but maybe for another podcast. Yes.

But for her, you know, she found freedom in her kids being at school and out of the house for eight to nine hours a day.

And I know everybody's wire different, but the desire definitely has to be there

to invest in these little lives that we were entrusted with. Don't you agree with that? I totally agree.

It's so true because if you don't enjoy being with your children, you're certainly not going to enjoy

being with them 24-7. Yeah. I have friends that say that too. Their child is struggling in school and so they'll

consider homeschooling. And a lot of their reasons for not doing it is simply because they can't

spend 24-7 with their kids because they would drive each other nuts, but also that their child

can't learn from them, that their child wouldn't listen to them or they wouldn't be able to

teach their child because their child needs to be with somebody else. I totally understand that it is just such a personal decision, you know, and I never push that. But I do feel like I want to pop the air out of some of those preconceptions because it is a growing process and a learning process for all of us. We as homeschool moms weren't gifted

with an extra dose of patients. I do believe some people are given an extra dose of patient.

But just as a homeschooling mom in general, I don't think that that's true. I think we all have

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