How Wonder Studies Can Transform Your Homeschooling Experience With Multiple Kids

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Lindsay Korte, a seasoned homeschool mom of 10, to discuss the joys and challenges of homeschooling a large family. Lindsay shares her journey of 15 years of homeschooling, starting from the early days of teaching multiple young children together, to adjusting her approach as her kids grew older.

We dive into the importance of family learning and how Lindsay uses resources like our Morning Time Explorations to create a rich, enjoyable homeschool experience for all her kids, from preschoolers to teens. She also shares insights on balancing the chaos of homeschooling with a large family, the benefits of learning together, and how our Wonder Studies have played a key role in her homeschool.

Tune in for practical tips, heartwarming stories, and a peek into how Lindsay keeps the wonder alive in her homeschool.

Key Takeaways:

Lindsay’s 15-year homeschooling journey with 10 kids.
The value of family learning and using Morning Time Explorations.
How Wonder Studies enriches homeschooling for all ages.
Balancing the chaos and joy of homeschooling a large family.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:05.4	Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?
0:10.3	Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.
0:18.2	I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and
0:22.0	into the wonder. Let's do this. I am joined today by Lindsay Corti, and I am so excited that
0:35.3	you are joining me today, Lindsay. Thank you so much for coming on.
0:39.1	Oh, thank you. It's a real honor, excited. Well, tell me how many kids you're homeschooling and how long
0:46.3	you've been homeschooling and all of that great stuff. Okay. We'll do a little math this morning.
0:51.1	So I've got 10 kids. I'm not homeschooling all of them. The two oldest have graduated.
0:55.6	They graduated from high school Michael this past year and Heidi the year before that.
1:00.6	And then so this year I will have six slash seven. I'll have two high schoolers down to a
1:07.4	almost five-year-old. So he'll be doing kind of some preschool work and then a baby
1:12.3	who is not quite a year old yet. So seven students will be all together doing work together and then
1:18.0	down to the littlest guy. And we've homeschooled from the beginning. All my kids didn't ever go to
1:23.4	school, always at home. We've done some co-op over the years, but otherwise it's been all us,
1:28.4	all at home. And my husband and I've been married for 20 years this year, and we live on a farm.
1:33.7	So there's that that goes on too, a lot of activities around here. Yeah, it sounds like you guys are
1:39.1	busy. Okay, more math. So how long have you been homeschooling? Yes, I did do that math. This will be 15 years,
1:47.6	this coming school year. So 2425 will be our 15th year. Yeah. Okay. Now do you want to do the opposite
1:53.9	math? How long will you still be homeschooling? I don't want to do that right now. I had done that
1:59.7	before and that was like 30 some odd years, I think. And I was like, I don't need to know that number. Yeah. It's like we're not going to think about that number right now. We're just going to put one foot in front of the other and take it one day at a time. Okay. So next math question for you. You had no idea when you said yes to this. I know, right? How long have you been homeschooling more than one
2:19.3	child? I mean, really since the beginning. So, I mean, well, okay, when Heidi was little,
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