This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 286.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,

Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast. I'm super

excited you're here today because today's episode and the next episode are two very requested

topics right now that I have been asked to talk about since March, and it was just finding the time to sit down

and actually create these two episodes. So what we're going to be doing is a two-part episode

little mini-series on getting started homeschooling. So those of you who already homeschooling,

you know, or who don't have plans for homeschooling. Maybe this episode, these two episodes,

will still give you some good little nuggets here and there. The reason I'm doing this right now

is that, I mean, all of us, right, whether you homeschool or not, have found our kids at home

the last couple of months with the whole pandemic going on. And right now, now that we're midway

through summer, a lot of schools are starting to release their guidelines for going back to school

in the fall. Because for a lot of people, school starts what the second week of August. That's

coming up actually really soon. And so schools are starting to publish their guidelines of masks

and the distance and

just some things that are not great for facilitating education. And especially for those of us who have

emotional kids or kids who deal with some fear and anxiety, you just, for whatever reason, you might be looking at this next school year considering

homeschooling.

And that's what I keep getting a lot of questions is, is I, you know, women on Instagram and

Facebook are like, I am looking at what's ahead this next year.

I've always kind of been interested in homeschool or maybe you haven't at all. But I'm looking at

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