Hey, moms, welcome to mentoring moments. I'm Durenda Wilson. I've been a homeschooling mom for over 24 years,

and I've graduated six of our eight kids so far. I'm the author of the

Unhurried Homeschooler and host of my podcast, Dorinda Wilson. Mentoring Moments is a short

episode answering one question at a time of the many questions that I get from homeschooling moms.

And today, what I'm doing is I'm recording on a Facebook live, but I'm also at the same time

recording a podcast. So if you want to listen in on the podcast at any point, you can do that.

That will be posted next week. Otherwise, this video will be recorded

and put up on this Facebook page for you guys to watch later or to share with your friends.

Today, I am sharing with you what I believe are the five most important things that we have

taught our kids over our 24 years of homeschooling.

Now, if you guessed that those things have very little to do with math or language

arts or history or science, you would be absolutely right.

I used to hear that character was the most important thing that we should work on with our kids.

And I wasn't exactly sure what that meant.

You know, how did that flesh out in real life?

Well, it didn't mean that you don't teach them math or language arts.

It really just meant that if you have to choose between character and curriculum

in any given moment, I would say almost 100% of the time choose character. Now that can be

really tough at the moment, but in the big scheme of things, it makes a huge difference.

And it actually ultimately does impact our kids as learning because it's much easier to homeschool kids whose attitudes and actions aren't out of control.

So if you start there, it makes the rest of the work more doable.

Some days it will feel like character is all you're working on,

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