Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Okay, we have a special episode for you guys. So we have been posting some reels lately on Instagram and some have gone absolutely bonkers. And I like to dive into obviously what is catching people's attention. These are conversations people really want to have. So what I want to do is just dive into a few of these reels and we've already reacted to them. so I will let those things stand. But I would

like to interact with some of the comments. And I think it's really important for us to

drill into the topic and even ask the question, why is this striking a nerve? So the first one

is Brett Cooper, and she goes into detail in this reel about the reason, ultimate reason why she is happy that she was

homeschooled. So just to remind you guys, this is what she said.

You look at the statistics of how much time kids are spending with their parents these days.

It's like 35 minutes a day. That's it.

When you remove bathing, making dinner, when you are face to face with your kid bonding, doing an

activity where you are interacting. That's an average of 35 minutes a day. The benefit of homeschooling

is the opportunities and the freedom that you do have. I didn't have to finish all my classes

by a certain period. I had nine months. If I wanted to get everything done in two weeks, I could

have. I had so much flexibility to do everything that I was interested in. I took art classes. I did gymnastics. I volunteered. And that was only because I had the time to do it. I was not school until 3 p.m. I spent so much time with my family. My relationship with my mom is one of the things that I'm most proud of. I inherited a lot of her values because I spent so much quality

time with her that she was the one who raised me, not a teacher. And I think that that is so important.

All right. So one of the comments that we got on this was from costume design arena. She said,

wish we could afford it surviving on one income with no family on this continent.

This is, I think, a constant challenge that people have.

Some of the responses are Abigail Schwartz said,

we are a one-income family and lower middle class.

It's very possible.

A lot of people are interacting with this.

How do you think generations of your family did it with much less? That's a really good question. Other responses, perhaps you can if you consider

working as well. We've been homeschooling since day one. We have six kids. Our oldest 18 graduated

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