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The Heidi St. John Podcast

Life After Homeschool: An Interview with Savannah (St. John) Bates

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“What do your adult kids remember/think about homeschooling?”  I get this question all the time, and so today, Savannah, the oldest of our seven and now a mother of four herself, joins me to talk candidly about all things homeschooling, from socialization to why she and her husband decided to homeschool their own kids. Don’t miss it! SHOW NOTES

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0:00.0

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0:32.0

Well hey everyone this is Heidi Saint John welcome to the off the bench podcast today I have a very special guest on the show my daughter Savannah is in the studio and we are going to talk all things homeschooling so if you are new to homeschooling if you wonder what somebody who graduated from homeschool thinks about homeschooling and whether or not she would choose to homeschool her own kids is going to be a fascinating conversation stick around I think you're going to be encouraged.

1:02.0

All right well I'm glad you guys have joined me here at my little corner of the internet when a reminder before I get going today we have a brand new study on peace that is happening right now at mom strong international so yesterday I did my first teaching on that and we talked about the Shalom of God the peace of God that really does pass understanding and the fact that the world might be on its head right now.

1:28.0

So I hope you guys will join me for that you can sign up this is a great time to do it at mom strong international dot com all right you guys I want to introduce you to one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.

1:54.0

I'm sure you guys are going to be very happy to be here Savannah is the oldest of our seven and she's a mom of four for going to say so welcome four kids you're often in the studio but just not often.

2:05.0

Yeah not here I was going to say that peace study sounds so good right now I was reading it right before the started yeah it's like it's very useful to me right in this moment for kids.

2:16.0

Yeah because it's it's not a lot of it's not a lot of like worldly peace going on at your house right now it's just chaos just lots and lots of noise but then one of them comes and gives you a hug and it's like okay okay I know I had the kids at my house well you know these guys don't know I had the kids at my house last night they spent the night.

2:34.0

And it's just so funny you wake up in the morning and I call three these little darling kids piling on my bed you know ma'am D ma'am D ma'am D and I have some cereal ma'am D can I and it was just the cutest thing in the junior with her little.

2:46.0

Voice I hope you guys are getting on tape yeah we have to have a podcast for her something she's her own show I know so cute I was like you know juniper you know I just I'm asking her questions just for the sheer satisfaction of listening to her talk.

3:00.0

It's so fun it's fun well I'm glad that you decided that you would take me up on my little invitation to have you here I get so many questions as you know because you spend a lot of time.

3:12.0

In the studio with me just when you're here working at the at the resource center and a lot of the questions that are coming in right now are about home schooling.

3:20.0

Oh yeah and it's well and at the resource center we were just talking about we're getting ready to hit 2000 students.

3:26.0

So much which is just bananas yeah it's crazy and you had up the seedlings program so I have so many questions I want to ask you but first of all.

3:35.0

Tell everybody when you graduated from our homeschool and then kind of what happened after that because pretty much in rapid succession you met Ryan yeah and your life changed yes.

3:47.0

So I graduated in 2010 and I was the first one to graduate and it was a little bit scary I guess leaving and going to college and everything because.

3:58.0

There definitely was a part of me that felt like is this really going to work right.

4:03.0

I mean I feel like I know things but.

4:06.0

Not everything obviously but like well I be able to get into college and all that and how will you do once you get there right yeah all that stuff just in my mind and honestly I didn't.

4:16.0

Have a whole lot of friends that had graduated so I was kind of the older one of my friend group so there was that to just a lot of newness there.

4:26.0

And yeah went to my own university after trying to go to her school I didn't get into her school in that crazy to you applied at the evata school of beauty this just very high flu.

4:37.0

Yeah you know but it's the Portland location will not take home schoolers yeah go figure go figure I mean you can get to university but not.

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