Did you have grand dreams of homeschooling your children, making their curriculum fun and interesting,

enjoying a flexible schedule, not getting calls from the school anymore about your strong-willed

child, and then you discovered it's really hard. Well good that

means you're not alone. You should be struggling and we want to help you. That is

what we're going to discuss on this first of two special bonus episodes of the

Calm Parenting Podcast for Home Schoolers.

So welcome, this is Kirk Martin, founder to Celebrate Calm.

You can find us at Celebrate Calm. If you need any help email our homeschooled son

partly because he got kicked out of a Montessori school right if you can't make it

a monessori you have issues because they love everyone

but Casey even struggled there so his name is Casey C a S-E-Y

at celebrate calm com and uh if you need some help just email him he'll help you out with stuff.

So you had these grand dreams of how homeschooling would go, right?

No rigid public school classroom or even more rigid private school, right, teachers and curriculum.

Not too many worksheets, you're going to create your own curriculum that's fun and

experiential for your kinesthetic learner, right?

You let your kids sleep in a little bit.

And so surely they're going to be grateful

for this cool gig that they have outside of that school prison.

And then your strong-willed child comes reluctantly dragging down the stairs and proceeds to whine and pout and negotiate and resist literally everything you try and you try to reason with him.

Nope, not gonna work.

You threaten to cancel Christmas like the Grinch,

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