Minisode: The Reader's Guide to Homeschool with Mindy and Kaytee
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Mindy are here to share our homeschool wisdom. Between us, we have 27 years of homeschooling experience, and we are excited to share with you a bunch of what we've learned in that time. Minisode episodes are not time stamped, but we have a quick list of topics:
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Getting Started: how much time it takes to homeschool, providing structure and routine (poster board and post-its, spiral notebooks), outside play, when to start formal school
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Homeschool specific: philosphies and methods of education, how to choose curricula, when to abandon a curriculum, homeschool preschool soapbox
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Virtual school specific: creating a schedule with a reward system, how to make a virtual school routine, what to do with non-school scheduled hours, ArtForKidsHub.com, 201 Awesome, Magical, Bizarre, and Incredible Experiments by Janice VanCleave
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Applicable to both: entertaining younger siblings while older kids do school, how to fit in reading/work/housework while kids are around, how to fit in self-care, quiet time, what to do when outside play isn't an option
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Encouragement! You can do this!
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Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Katie Combe. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi readers. Welcome to another minisode of the currently reading podcast. I'm Katie |
| 0:14.4 | I'm K |
| 0:13.0 | Kob, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico and I'm here today with Mindy. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi Mindy. Hi Mindy. Hi, Mindy. Hi, Katie. Glad to be here. I'm glad to have you here. We have had a hard time getting this episode scheduled but we are very excited about it because today we're going to talk about homeschooling. |
| 0:29.0 | We're just about to enter a new school year and lots of families don't know what they're doing. |
| 0:34.0 | Right? |
| 0:35.0 | And they're scared. |
| 0:37.0 | They're intimidated. |
| 0:38.0 | They are intimidated. |
| 0:39.0 | So we went to our bookish friends and we said, you know, a lot of you are maybe considering homeschooling for the first time or you're doing virtual school or you're doing hybrid school and you're wondering how to balance not sending your children away with the other things you need to do in your life. |
| 0:53.7 | Maybe you work. |
| 0:54.7 | Maybe you want to continue to read as much as you do. |
| 0:57.8 | Maybe you feel like you can't clean your house because your kids are there. |
| 1:00.8 | Whatever it is, we're here to kind of chat about how we make it work and |
| 1:05.3 | between the two of us we have 20 some odd years of homeschooling experience. |
| 1:09.6 | So we have quite a bit of experience under our belts and we want to share that with you. |
| 1:15.0 | We do. We want to help you feel confident and excited and any other positive things we can throw your way for homeschooling. |
| 1:22.0 | All the positive things. We're here way for homeschooling. All the positive things. |
| 1:23.8 | We're here to bring some sparkle to your homeschool life, |
| 1:26.3 | which is weird, because we don't really talk about this very much |
| 1:28.8 | on the big show ever. |
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