Homeschooling: Know Your Why
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It can be really hard to hang in there toward the end of your homeschool career. Whether it’s one child or five, once we see the light at the end it can just be hard to finish well. Our children often ask to go to a traditional school, independent attitudes can show themselves, parenting differences appear as the kids get older, and frankly we can just get tired. If you find yourself in this position, it’s critical to revisit why you decided to homeschool in the first place. It can make all the difference!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey everyone, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Off the Bench podcast. I'm glad you guys have joined me here at the intersection of faith and culture. |
| 0:08.8 | I've been receiving some questions as of late about homeschooling through high school, of how do you stay in there how do you how do you grow not grow weary and well doing because we all know that homeschooling is a tremendous responsibility but it's also a tremendous blessing. |
| 0:24.1 | Today I'm going to talk a little bit about how to stay in there and why I think it's worth it |
| 0:28.1 | when you plant with the harvest in mind. |
| 0:30.7 | Stick around. |
| 0:31.3 | I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:33.0 | Thank you everybody for tuning in today wherever you are. |
| 0:44.5 | I know this is a very busy time of year and I appreciate so much. |
| 0:47.9 | Those of you continue to listen to the show and pass it on for other people to listen to. |
| 0:53.0 | I have a lot of respect for homeschool moms who never planned on homeschooling their kids, |
| 1:01.4 | but they just, they looked at what's going on in the |
| 1:03.1 | culture and they just thought you know what forget this I'm gonna take it on |
| 1:07.1 | myself I'm gonna do it especially in a culture that says you can't do it it's too hard |
| 1:11.6 | what do you do about you know people that need two |
| 1:15.7 | incomes to work and all those kinds of things and I want to answer some of those questions |
| 1:19.1 | today but I get a lot of questions about homes going through high school and what does it look like to hang in there with your kids all the way through to the end. |
| 1:30.0 | And people ask me what it was like to have children that went all the way through high school. |
| 1:35.9 | And so I asked, you know, a couple of years ago and I hope you guys, I'll try to link back to it in the show |
| 1:40.0 | us today, but we did one of the most listened to podcasts of all time here at |
| 1:44.2 | the Heidi St. John podcast is a show that I did just last year with all seven of my |
| 1:48.8 | kids and I just asked them really honestly give us some feedback on homeschooling and I think it's it's easy |
| 1:56.7 | for us to sort of get into our heads that it has to look a certain way or if we would just |
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