This gives us so much freedom

I think two good goals as a homeschooling Mom are to teach your children to read and to love to learn - everything flows naturally from there ☺️

I raised my kids as a single mom who homeschooled all five of her children. I wanted the kids to be well rounded adults so I would step out to friends and church members who could teach my children all kinds of things.. my boys learned to build homes, recover furniture, horse train etc… also stepped out in the community and helped my boys get hooked up with the local fire department.. now both of my boys are paid firefighters..

Great podcast. Ignore any naysayers about homeschooling. The goal isn’t to recreate an industrial society worker bee institution at home. My kids are in their later 20s, launched and know how to think and learn. We did “school” all year and took off whenever we felt like it. Daughter graduates with her PhD in December- so homeschooling didn’t interfere with her desire to pursue higher education.

I'm on the other side of this, where I have homeschooled my children and successfully launched them, and I've gone back to work. Oh how I miss those days.

Re: the “big kids reading to little kids” criticisms. We always did “book buddies” in school, where the big kids read to the littles, practice their read aloud skills, and interacting as a mini teacher. It’s just that same thing, replicated at home!

We’ve built 6 homes… 5 we general contacted without a general contractor license. We hired out all the licensed trades (plumbing, electric, and HVAC) but our family put in all the floors, did all the painting, trim, doors and cabinets. It’s fun to design, and you learn tricks to get more square footage for less money, etc. I highly recommend it for gaining equity, experience, and for loving your home!

I have a feeling you're planning on building a home on the new land with the creek! Hope it all goes well!

That is me and my hubby, I dream it, and he builds it, my hubby can build Anything, I'm so thankful for everything he does and can do! Lisa, you look beautiful!

There is a lot of wasted time in regular school. And the kids don't get necessary outside breaks.

"What is the goal of school" --- yesssss. That is the quote I needed to hear today! ❤🎉

Loved this! We year-round homeschool, and we focus on Math and language arts, during the typical school year, plus we're in a unique 4H STEM group that meets multiple days a week for classes with other kids, and then in the summer we do more History, Science, and art, which we can do outside too.

I don’t homeschool (since it’s unfortunately forbidden in Sweden) but I really loved listening to your conversation, so inspiring and uplifting! Thanks for this!

Love this! We designed and built our house and are currently selling it to do it all again now that we went from 4 kids to 7. My husband did everything except the electrical! I was unschooled and we are very relaxed homeschoolers. I was just nodding along through this whole podcast❤

Such great advice. I homeschooled my kids from 2000 to 2013 when I burned out and put them in school! Biggest mistake of my life. I was so uptight about teaching that it was not sustainable and they missed so much. Thank you

I sign my kids up for fun summer activities so that they get lots of new experiences with new friends.

It is so interesting when people take a year off of homeschooling since I used to teach history year-round and a few other things. . .that I can't understand taking time off, but then again, maybe that one mom you mentioned took her kids out to do a lot of LIFE LEARNING things?

I love and learn so much from both of you ladies so I was so excited to listen to a podcast by you two! Thanks so much, it was so inspiring!

My 2 favourite homeschoolers together in a podcast❤😍. Great conversation, thank you for sharing..

Always amazing topics!!! ❤🎉. Thank you!

People DO think eggs are dairy!! We were dairy-free for a few years to heal some gut stuff, and family would often ask about eggs and not understand those aren't dairy. 🤣 It always killed me. Also I laughed out loud at the "fake baby" project point!! So true! What a better experience to be around a real baby (and for more than a week!). Wow!! I am the baby of my family (along with my twin sister) and I didn't have much interest in children as a kid. Though I babysat a bit with my sister, I would have learned so much more about kids by going to hang out with a family that had younger kids or a baby to rock. Wow, such an interesting thought!