Hey, moms, welcome to mentoring moments.

I'm Dorinda Wilson, and I have been a homeschooling mom for over 24 years and graduated six of our eight kids so far.

I'm the author of the Unhurried homeschooler and host of my podcast, Duranda Wilson.

Mentoring Moments is a short episode answering one question at a time of the many questions that I get from homeschooling

moms. And what I'm doing is I'm recording a Facebook live and a podcast at the same time.

So you can either watch and listen on my Facebook page, Dorenda Wilson, or you can listen

from the podcast. So today, I want to talk about math. I don't know about you guys,

but I get the general feeling that math is a struggle for most homeschooling moms. And I think

we often think it's because we haven't found the right curriculum or we have what's defined as math anxiety ourselves.

And so we're not sure of ourselves when it comes to teaching our kids.

Out of all the homeschool moms I've met over the years, a small fraction of them actually love

and enjoy math.

So it's interesting because here we are trying to

homeschool our kids and, you know, obviously math is a part of that. And so this can be really

a lot of cause for angst. And I know that it's easy for us to pass on our fears and our stresses

and our anxieties about math to our kids,

which I know none of us really wants to do. So I am not a math expert. I can only share with you

my own experience. So that's what I'm going to do because I have had eight kids and a vast and varied, you know, a variety of experiences with

teaching our kids math. So I'm going to share those with you because I think it'll be a real

encouragement to you. Like I said, I was not great at math, but I did make it through

algebra two and trigonometry with A's and B's.

And it was a battle, it was a struggle, but I did it, and I pulled it off. But when it came to

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