What Seven Years of Boot Camp Taught Us About Homeschooling

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Homeschool Better Together podcast, I sit down with Dawn Garrett, our customer service guru, to reflect on the lessons we’ve learned over seven years of running the Homeschool Consistency Boot Camp. We talk about how consistency—not perfection—can transform your homeschool and why sticking with even a “minimum viable day” can make all the difference.

Dawn and I share some of the challenges homeschool moms face and how the Boot Camp provides tools and mindset shifts to help you stay the course. We also chat about the power of accountability and how taking charge—though exhausting—yields big results.

If you’ve been feeling stuck or overwhelmed, this episode will inspire you to take small steps toward consistency and show how even imperfect days can lead to long-term success.

Key Takeaways:

Consistency matters more than curriculum or homeschool method.
The "minimum viable day" helps keep you on track, even on tough days.
Taking charge can be tiring, but it leads to the best results.
Accountability plays a huge role in building consistent habits.
There’s never a perfect time to start—just jump in and begin today.

Resources and Links:

For full show notes and a transcript of today’s episode, head to pambarnhill.com/hsbt24

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Transcript

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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 into the wonder.
0:24.0	Let's do this.
0:28.5	Hey there and welcome. I am joined today by our customer service guru at homeschool better together,
0:35.2	Ms. Don Garrett. She's been on the podcast a number of times, but it's been a little while since you've joined
0:40.1	me, Dawn.
0:40.5	So welcome, welcome.
0:42.3	I'm so glad to be here.
0:43.6	It's always a fun time to chat and talk about these things.
0:47.5	So, yeah, it is.
0:48.8	So today we're diving into five lessons we've learned in, I'm going to say seven years of doing the
0:56.6	homeschool consistency boot camp, but honestly, we haven't done it for seven years in a row.
1:03.9	We took a little break for a while.
1:05.9	We did, but we brought it back because so many people were like, why don't you do this
1:10.3	anymore?
1:10.5	And we also were like, we really feel like it is one of the strong things that we offer to the community. It really helps so many people. So we started in 2017, if my calculations are correct. And it was just some crazy idea I had. It was like a
1:30.0	November or something, which Dawn's like, why are you coming up with things to do in November?
1:34.6	Because at that point, you were like, your school year ended in November. And you were like,
1:41.5	come on a break. But yeah, in November of that year, I just got to thinking about
1:47.2	all of the struggles that I had personally had with homeschool consistency. And maybe there was a way
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