Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 20.

I'm Ainsley Arment here with Tina Ingold, and today we're talking about scheduling our homeschool day,

a few fears that some moms might have and helping our kids fall in love with learning.

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

Let's get started.

Music Let's get started. I recently met with a friend who's going to start to home school next year, but she's pulling her second and her fourth grader out of public school.

And is really excited about it. But we've been meeting because she just wants to run questions by me and ask. But one of her main questions was about

scheduling her day. Like what does a day look like? And I know we've talked about that before. But

when it comes to scheduling your day, I feel like it's so important to remember that everybody's

house looks different, but every year looks different too. So asking me now,

I wanted to tell her everything that we do now, but I also wanted to tell her everything that I plan on

not doing and what I plan on doing differently next year. Because this summer, I'm doing lots of

thinking and reading and praying. And I know this coming fall, things will look a little different,

if not a lot different in our

homeschooling, and I'm excited about it, but situations changes. Babies grow older. Sometimes you're having a

baby and that throws a whole other wrench in it or homeschooling through hard times. Traveling, some people

just decide to travel for a year or several months. And I feel like it makes the day look different. You know, you're just squeezing things in in between all the adventures you're having and museums you're visiting and things like that. I look at the kind of experiences

when I'm planning my year. I don't look at what my days are going to look like. I look at the kind

of experiences I want my kids to have. And then the other stuff, I'll just squeeze in somewhere.

Yeah, absolutely. And I would say to be really careful about having too high of expectations, you know,

otherwise you're going to get discouraged really fast. So don't be discouraged if the first few weeks

or the first few months feel crazy and unorganized and don't look like how you pictured in your mind.

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