Hey everyone. Welcome to this episode of my Facebook Live, Instagram Live, where we're going to be

talking about all things curriculum. If you don't know me already, I'm married to Daryl. We've been married for

32 years. We have eight kids, ages 17 to 30. We have seven grandkids. We've been homeschooling for over

26 years and we have graduated seven so far. So I have some thoughts on curriculum that I want to

share with you today. But before I do that,

just want to throw out there. If you don't already know, I am the author of the four-hour school

day, which just came out in June, how you and your kids can thrive in the homeschool life. If you

haven't checked that out, please go do that. You can do it at my website, Duranda Wilson.com,

or you can go to Amazon or any of your

favorite booksellers. Also, I wrote the Unhurried Homestchooler a few years ago, and well over 30,000

families have enjoyed that book as well. It's a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling,

again, available on my website and also available on

on Amazon. I also do a podcast and I just share my experience, you know, over these well over

two decades of homeschooling. There's a lot to share and I'm, I, my goal is to make

homeschooling doable because it really is more doable than we realize.

So let's just jump right in.

So when people, I'm also the host of my podcast.

I told you that, but I didn't tell you where to go.

You go to major platforms or you can go to Duranda Wilson.com. All right. So when people find out that I've homeschooled

all eight of our kids from the beginning with seven graduated so far, sometimes the first question

they ask is, what curriculum did you use? So I always kind of cringe when they say that because, I mean,

I know there are a lot of reasons that that's the first question that they ask, but my fear is

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