Hi! First year homeschooler with my two little girls, 3.5 year old and a 16 month old. The best advice..I actually need to keep reminding myself.. is not to plan and schedule too much. And kinda move at their pace. If she’s not into it we will take a break and come back to it later or tomorrow, no big deal. I put too much pressure on myself at first and that just made things unnecessarily stressful. Your videos have been such a help too! Do you have any advice for keeping the younger one occupied? She’s always wanting to be included as in trying to color on the same paper my oldest is working on! Lol
Hi:) your videos are very helpful, thank you :) so i noticed in one of your last videos, you were teaching your little girl the days of the week ... how do you do that?? Do you have a calendar that work on with her?? If so, where do you get a calendar, I have been looking for one and cant find one. My little girl is also in preschool.:)
The negativity bit is so good! I’m hoping that with all the new people homeschooling this year because of Covid that homeschooling will lose some of the stigma. I hate the responses we get when we tell people that we are homeschooling. I try to let it roll off but it’s so hard!
Love these! I set up our schedule where we do 2 lessons a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I also learned, like you said, to switch up the location. I ask my son where he wants to work and he's sometimes more willing to get things done. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for these tips. It gives relief to new (and struggling) homeschooling moms like me. Someone told me that (without sounding so preachy) Parent-child relationship is more important that what we are teaching our kids. This is most appropriate when we are running behind the planned lessons and we are losing our patience.
I'm so relieved to hear your kids like to move about and use the kitchen table rather than your school room. Been going back and forth with my husband to convince him we need one. I see so many beautiful ones on here, and love how you set yours up ,but wed be sacrificing a bedroom to do so.
I totally know what you mean! I thought it would be great to have our school area to dedicate to learning. But, lately we’ve barely used it! Makes me think we could totally do without a whole area dedicated to school.
This is our twelfth year homeschooling and we've lived at three different houses. I was so excited to finally have a homeschool room at our newest house, but we don't use it! We use our dining room and living room. And the big kids like to do their independent work in their bedrooms.
Thank you for these tips! I have two 5 year olds and this is our first official year into homeschooling. (First one was more of an "ask questions and we'll discover something" . The thing i had to overcome the most is dealing with the negativity of my in-laws and husband. If it wasn't for my mom's support and my setting my foot down it probably would've never happened.
I homeschool my 2 kids because of Covid, learning letters! Your videos really helped to start last month! We learned 8 letters in one month! And we built a great relationship! Thank you please continue posting your videos😘
Oh my Brittany this was perfect timing. I really needed this 🙏 we’ve been struggling this week my 4 year old just wasn’t having it the past few days of homeschooling with loosing focus and not wanting to do lessons. I thought maybe I need to do a tighter schedule and be very routinely and strict but you know what maybe I just need to listen to her and see what will improve her learning experience. Maybe do the same and try doing the lessons on the kitchen table or even in the patio. Thank you so much for this!
First year homeschooling mama. I constantly hear negative comments from family members about how school will be better for them academically and socially. I come from a family of workaholics so this idea is unheard of to them. It gives me doubt and insecurity, on the daily. Your tips helped! Thank you!
Love these tips. My daughter is three so we are just getting started. I found a homeschool group that has weekly “play dates” at parks with art and nature activities. We both look forward to time with other homeschool littles and moms
thank you for this. your home school room literally inspired me to make a space like that for my kids, and between all the cost to re-do, paint, the posters, etc i've been wondering if it's really going to be worth it because they've been loving to just learn outside. I think i'm going to hold off making a whole dedicated area for right now!
I’m so happy to find your videos. It’s very helpful for me. I’m going to start homeschooling for my 3 year old daughter next week. Thank you for the information u’ve been sharing.
I needed this video. I’m struggling without having anyone in my person life to talk it out with. I’ve been doing traditional because I didn’t have enough time to prepare. I was having a baby within a couple weeks of making the decision. I hated my own traditional publishing school experience, so why am I torturing my son through it? I’m studying different styles, but I’m so scared to do something wrong and mess up his education now.
its been tough having to home-school the kids because of covid. I was tuning in for tips. but dare I say that I was almost jealous when u said ubhave 2 daughters. I have a boy and a girl and the quarrels are so stressful sometimes I just want to scream.
Hi I'm mom of 2.8 yr old. Can you please share what should I start with? I'm just going on randomly like days of the week, months of the year, numbers, alphabets... how should I start properly and I'm over confused.
I’m not home schooling mom but planning and hoping to teach my two kids 5&3 ) new language (which I knew very well) but it’s so hard especially 5yrs old has already two languages in school! So hard
I'm a preschool teacher and when I told my parents that I was starting homeschooling with the kids this year, my dad's response was: "Are you sure?, That's not going to work with them. 🙄😣🤔 Negative comments even from your closest family members.
If you would’ve told me 10 years ago that I would be homeschooling my daughter I would’ve laughing in my face. I hated the idea of homeschool bc of those exact reasons! But now that I AM a mom, I need homeschool bc I know how the schools are and how their curriculum works. I want my child to be enlightened in history and in subjects that she will apply to her every day life!! I’m homeschooling bc of 2020 social justice warriors ruining children’s well-being in the schools. I don’t trust teachers or their intentions with children. At all.
life addict my daughter is going to be 2 in November, so we have started a bit early. She can count to 10 and can say her alphabet. I’m also teaching her sign language as her secondary language. It’s so much fun!
