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Mindy, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura.

Thank you so much for taking my call. Thank you. How can I help?

I really needed parenting advice from you. I have two children at home and specifically my 12-year-old son

has, he recently asked, we homeschool. They've gone to school before for a few years when I went

back to school, but we're most recently homeschooling. And he also has done gymnastics since he

was, you know, a toddler, and now he's 12. And he came home the other day. And he's been kind

of talking about wanting to go back to school and wanting to quit gymnastics. Because it's a huge time commitment to do gymnastics. And then being at home, you know, we were not as social as we would want to be. And of my two children, I think he's the more social one. And so he came home the other day and said, mom, I want to go back to school and I don't

want to do gymnastics anymore. And I think my mom heart broke. And I wasn't quite sure what to do.

Why is that? Why is that? Why did your mom heart break? I think just because I feel like homeschool is

such a good fit for our family.

And I think that it's amazing because you can learn whatever you want to learn and whatever time frame you want to learn it in and you can do it at your own pace.

And I don't know, in my mind, I almost feel like it's superior to going back to school

where you're there for seven hours a day and you have to learn all of

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