Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, Episode 9.

I'm Ainsley Arment, here with Tina Engold,

and today we're talking about getting on the same page as your spouse when it comes to homeschooling.

A little bit later in the podcast, we're going to share a special moment that happened at one of our wild and free conferences.

I think you're going to love it.

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

Let's get started. Let's talk about some of the fears or concerns that husbands or wives might have? I think the first one is

comparing. You know, when we see what other people are doing on social media or even just in real

life, that puts a lot of fear in us, that my children might be behind the public school system.

And then another one is just insecurities within ourselves, you know, feeling like I'm not

competent enough or smart enough or whatever it might be. It's a flat out lie because we each have

our own strengths. Some moms are good at music or sports. I'm not very athletic. And so sometimes

when I see other, you know, moms posting, oh, my kids are in soccer and scoring all

these goals. It makes me think, maybe my kids should be in soccer or playing sports. But the truth is,

is I mean. Or they just both climb to the top of Mount Everest together. Exactly. Right. Yes. But that's not one of my

strengths. I'm just not super athletic. And so why would I put that pressure

on myself to think that my kids should be these amazing sports people when they're just going on.

I think we forget that they are real human beings that are developing. And despite us,

they will still develop and do things that they love or want to pursue.

Cody right now is really wanting to play the violin.

And he mentioned it at three, but it was at the age where we were buying him instruments out the

wazoo, and he was destroying them because he would play them so hard, and he just didn't have

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