Why I wouldn't homeschool again

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, Brandon, we're heading into our fifth year of homeschool this year.
0:04.8	You're heading into your, what, fifth month?
0:06.4	Is that what you said?
0:07.2	Basically, yeah.
0:08.2	For the second semester, basically, yeah.
0:11.5	So I don't think either of us would call ourselves experts, but I'm really glad to be
0:14.7	joined by Brandon from Made to Home School.
0:16.8	We're going to talk about their Brave conference coming up just not, I don't know, a few
0:20.2	weeks away.
0:23.8	We want to make sure you can get an early bird ticket and you can join us there.
0:28.2	But Brandon, I titled this podcast, why I wouldn't choose homeschooling.
0:31.4	Again, I don't like to be too clickbaity and it's the truth.
0:33.1	And so let's talk about that for a minute.
0:38.0	And then we are going to talk about navigating the early years as a homeschool parent,
0:41.2	especially if you find yourself thinking about if you'd be good at it or not.
0:45.2	Both of us would say we wouldn't put ourselves in the good at it category.
0:50.5	So if I could take you back five years ago, the reason we chose to homeschool,
0:52.0	it was something we had been kicking around.
0:53.6	Our kids were in public school.
0:54.2	We were actually having a really good experience with it. And I don't say actually,
0:58.2	I love teachers. I think teachers are some of the most selfless, skilled human beings on
1:04.6	earth. And we adored the teachers at our children's school. And then like many, we found ourselves in this season of
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