The Secret to Homeschool Consistency: Minimum Viable Days
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready to tackle consistency in your homeschool? In this episode, I’m joined by Dawn Garrett to talk about one of my favorite tools: the Minimum Viable Day (MVD). We share how this simple concept helped us overcome perfectionism and establish daily momentum in our homeschools. Learn how to identify what truly matters for your family, create a flexible fallback plan, and build trust with your kids—all while simplifying your homeschool days.
Key Takeaways:
- What a Minimum Viable Day is and why it’s a game-changer for consistency.
- How MVD evolves with your homeschool season and supports your unique needs.
- Practical tips for creating your own MVD and sticking to it.
Key Resources:
Homeschool Better Together Podcast
Homeschool Consistency Boot Camp
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayiri
How the States Got Their Shapes
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? by Rebecca Tinker
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again? |
| 0:05.4 | Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids? |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and |
| 0:22.0 | into the wonder. Let's do this. Happy New Year. Happy 2025. That seems like the weirdest thing |
| 0:36.8 | in the world to say, Don Garrett. |
| 0:38.7 | Doesn't it seem like future time to you? |
| 0:41.6 | Yes. Where is my flying car? |
| 0:44.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:45.9 | We were totally supposed to have flying cars by now. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, the self-driving cars in some ways are kind of cool. |
| 0:53.2 | And then in some ways, me, the control freak is like, |
| 0:55.6 | maybe not. You know, my husband's car has like too many things. I'm like, that would like wall me into not |
| 1:02.8 | paying attention. I have to keep paying attention. Matt keeps walking around the house going, |
| 1:08.8 | in the year 25, 25. |
| 1:12.7 | And it's actually 20, 25, not 25, 25. |
| 1:15.9 | But like we can't get over. |
| 1:17.6 | It so feels like the future now. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, I think it's because it's that quarter of a century that it just feels like, |
| 1:25.9 | oh, we've really been in the 2000s for a long time now. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. |
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