Hey, it's Debbie. Every now and then, I like to share conversations from other shows that I think

you guys would really connect with. So today I'm bringing you an episode from a newer show from

understood called Everyone Gets a Juice Box. It's hosted by Jessica Shaw, who spent years

interviewing celebrities, but is now turning her attention to something much closer to home,

raising kids who learn and think differently, the chaos, the small winds, those moments that feel

impossibly hard, and the ones that surprise you. What I like about this show is that it makes

room for the parts of parenting that don't get neatly wrapped up. Those parts we are so familiar with.

And actually, for this episode I'm sharing with you, I am the one being interviewed. So I'm going to be

sharing the story of how our family ended up homeschooling, something that I honestly never thought

we'd choose. If you have ever found yourself rethinking a decision you once felt certain about

or stepping into a

version of parenting you didn't quite expect. I think this conversation is going to feel

familiar to you. So here's the episode of Everyone Gets a Juice Box. I hope you enjoy it.

I think I had known for several years that really this was the best thing for my child, at least for the time being, was homeschooling.

Just because of the way my kid experiences, the classroom dynamic and everything that's the demands and expectations of a traditional school, it was always going to be hard.

I just wasn't ready to accept that that was my fate.

Has anyone ever said to you, you should homeschool your kid?

And you thought, um, what?

That happened to my guest today, Debbie Reber.

And when another parent told her that, she thought, yeah, that's a hard pass.

So her kid went to three schools between

kindergarten and second grade, got lots of services, some things went well, others didn't,

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