Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?

Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?

Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.

I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and

into the wonder. Let's do this. Hey there, today I am with Mandy McArthur and Jessica Solis

Carpinelli and they are the creators of the co-op homeschool.

Mandy has a background in psychology, education, and business, and she has over a decade of

homeschooling experience, blending wisdom, inspiration, and a lot of practical tips for parents.

Now, her partner, Jessica, is a homeschooler and a

professional dance educator, so cool, with 20 plus years of experience. And she knows firsthand the

ins and outs of homeschooling as both a student and a parent. So Jessica, you were homeschooled

yourself, yes? I was starting in seventh grade.

Oh, that's so cool. Well, together they co-founded their friendship-based homeschool co-op in San Diego,

and they wrote together the book, hesitant to homeschool, answers to 20 common questions. And they're

here to share a little bit with us about if you are

hesitant to homeschool, how you can step out and do that and feel confident and successful about it

and how you can get help and resources for doing that. So ladies, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. It's great to be here. Yeah, Thank you. So awesome to have you. What inspired you

to write the book hesitant to homeschool? And how does your own personal homeschool journey

kind of inform the book's content? That's a really great question. We're going to tackle

this in two parts. So I think that first, we tended to get a lot great question. We're going to tackle this in two parts. So I think that first,

we tended to get a lot of questions. Being a dance teacher, I worked with a ton of parents and

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