OUR DAILY ROUTINE as a Large Homeschooling Family! 

I have 2 in college now and a 7th, 5th, and 3rd grader. I have always homeschooled and would not have it any other way. We also start school around 10 and usually are done sometime between 1 and 3. I have noticed that a clean house is key. When my kitchen is a mess it stresses me out. Spending time with the Lord in the morning helps my patience and mood. It is not always easy but it is always worth it. I thank God for this blessing everyday. We start with Easy grammar, move to A Reason for Spelling, then everyone does Teaching Textbooks. If we are hungry, we stop for lunch. Then we do Abeka Science and History. They also do Handwriting without tears for cursive practice. My 3rd grader is still doing the old version of Hooked on Phonics. Then everyone does chores and is free to play or read. That is our day. God bless you and thank you for sharing. 😊🙏♥️

You are wonderful. I'm a mom of 5, I'm from Romania. I love your videos. I love the fact that you are teaching yor kids Bible verses, prayers.... may God bless your family!!

I don’t homeschool but I love watching homeschooling content because I get ideas about things I can teach my kids that I know they aren’t getting in school. I feel like it just helps me connect with my kids in different areas. Thank you. I also love listening to videos of you just talking. I find your voice calming and you inspire me!

I have 11, 13, 14 & 16 year olds. Our oldest does school at home along with the rest of us, but is in the public online program and the other 3 are homeschooled, now into our 4th year. I love seeing how the day looks for other busy fams. 💞

❤ Thank you for sharing! I don’t homeschool but I have 5 kiddos so seeing these videos helps me out so much. Keep up the amazing work at home, on RU-vid, and just in life 😊

I am not homeschooling but this was so beautiful to watch - mom to six here 🥰

I've been anticipating this video for a long time. I love your channel and admire most of the things you do for homemaking and the like. I am happy to report this didn't disappoint. Our day looks very similar to this. Your kids are absolutely adorable. And it was fun to see you up there teaching.

I'm a homeschool mama of 3 and you truly inspire me!

Love that you go with the flow but also have structure. Balance is key. What do you have the little ones do while you help the school age kids? I have 3 3 and under plus school age. I’m not sure how to keep the younger ones busy long enough to focus with the older. ♥️

Brings back when I was homeschooled. Except we woke up at 6am 😢 Got done by 11am or noon though which was phenomenal.

We start our school day at 8:30. My son is 9, he is up at 6:30am does all the farm chores and is back in by 7:30 to shower, get ready and have breakfast before we start our morning. We work until about 11, have lunch, then 11:30 start back up until about 2:30. I don’t utilize any video lessons, I do all the instruction and lessons for each subject. We cover, Language Arts (sentence structure, parts of speech, grammar and creative writing), Math, World Geo, US Geo, Saints, Virtues & Character, Science, Music, Art, Catechism/Religion, Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Poetry, Latin, and Root Words. At 2:30 he practices his piano for 30min and reads 3 chapters of the current chapter book. He goes outside to play with his siblings until dinner which is 5:30. We have 5 kids. 21, 19, 9, 2 & 10months :) We thrive on structure at our house! So cool to see how you all do school!

We actually just started back to homeschooling! We tried out a charter school last year and a few weeks this year and it’s definitely not for us! So back to homeschool for us! We prefer a slower pace morning. I always get math and LA done first then add in extra things based on attitudes and attention spans. I have 5th, 3rd, 2nd, early pre K (Almost 4) along with a 20month old running around lol Days can get busy and a bit chaotic but I wouldn’t change it for anything! ❤

This is soo helpful!!! I’m only on my 2nd year of homeschooling and sometimes feel like I’m still getting the hang of it 🤭😅😂 it’s helpful to see how others mamas do it and inspires me to incorporate different things. Thanks for sharing!

My 4 kids are all awake and ready to go by 6:30-7am! You’re very lucky 😂

This video was so good! I loved getting to see y’all’s day!

Thank you for sharing your routine! We are homeschooling our 4 kids ages 9, 8, 6 and 3. Baby on the way for January! We use Charlotte Mason's Mater Amabilis right now. I feel like this past year I've been painfully in a growth period for homeschooling, but so far our year has started ok. We also have our kids do chores on our very small homestead (we try what we can). We live in Malaysia, I am American. Not many homeschoolers here, so it can be a bit of a lonely vocation. We are committed though! God bless.

Loved this video because I'm considering homeschooling and this really helped me because your schedule seems like it will work for me

Good morning I don't have young age kids my two boys are grown and have their own families but enjoy seeing you. You make it seem so easy. Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏽💜

Im so blessed and thankful to the LORD for the videos you put out. I learn and am encouraged by them. Especially the homeschooling ❤

Yay! I love these kind of videos!

Your so inspiring! I started homeschooling this year. It's so much better!

Thank you for sharing. I enjoy all of your videos.

You are goals! ❤

You are looking so healthy in your recent videos…not sure if I’ve missed anything or not but you look radiant.

I have a few questions: What are your below school age kids doing while the big kids are doing school? What activities are you doing with the little ones? When are you cleaning, resting and editing videos?❤😊

My name is Heather Lavender and I have two boys ages 8 and 14 and this year is our first year homeschooling and we are using Sonlight Curriculum. I am still learning how the best way my family does best? You helped me to understand how to get both kids done together since my youngest needs more help and my oldest can do it all mostly on his own. I will have to do verses, history, and one or two more things with them together and other things on their own. Thanks for giving me some ideas about that and have a blessed day! Also we have been traveling a lot so homeschooling has been helping so much, and thanks for the encouraging daily routine.

We are the same with slower mornings! We start homeschooling at 10 as well. 🎉

This is awesome! Love your chickens.

I'm in my 3rd year homeschooling and some days I feel like I'm still flying by the seat of my pants 😅. I loved watching how you do you day! I have kids 10, 5, 4 and almost 2 years old.

Thank you for your videos ❤ I was wondering how do you get your kids motivated to get their chores done before they start their day...And what types of chores do you do? Do you check to make sure they are all completed? Thanks so much 😊

The Turkey Babys are soooo cute ❤

Love this series. Im not a home schooler but this is very interesting. ❤❤

Please tell Hiya to start shipping to the UK!

My kids are 6,4 and 2. We also start school at 10am with Handwriting and spelling after that we usually do Kahn academy and then finish up with the good and beautiful math for my oldest and preschool workbook for my 4 year old. Depending on the day i read lots and we also like to watch science videos.

Спасибо за видео ❤️ хотелось бы увидеть, как вы отдыхаете всей семьёй) куда вы любите ходить, какие места посещать? Любите ли вы театры и музеи, кино и экскурсии? 🍬

I homeschool 2 and we start at 9 am and are done by noon.

Thank you so much for sharing Tabitha.... Very different from my day so it's lovely to see into your life 😊😊 God bless. Fiona 🙏

I have that problem with breakfast! Im wasting 2+hours because they (husband included) wake up in different hours. Drives me nuts. Is so so hard to wake up my teenagers

How do you deal with drop-off and pick-up for your child who isnt homeschooled? This was always such a production for us. My husband wants one of our kids to try in-person school next year and I am struggling to figure out how I could make it.

Oh my word!! My 15 month old is up between 6-6:30😩 BUT I drive my kids to school, which take 50 minutes total, so he has to be up no later than 6:30. Lol. On the weekends he’s up by 7 and he sleeps terribly 😩😩. You are one lucky mama❤❤

I’m a single dad. I homeschool my kids too and work at night. We get it done and it works great for us. I know it’s odd for a dad to be the only parent but it’s my life and I love my children. Where we live, too many kids bring hand g*ns to school and I’m not ok with that. Plus when my oldest was in kindergarten, on day two, he was about to cry so I was on my knees reassuring him that I’d be back after school and I saw the teacher throw a kid in the opposite direction he was going. It was the second day. They didn’t know the routine yet. I left him that day, reported her and went home. The next morning he woke up with a fever and I took him to the doctor and he had mono so they said start him next year. I said can I start him at home? The superintendent said yes you can homeschool. So I have.

Hi nice on what you are doing with children keep up good work you foing as mom i never see your back school haul also see uour shopping haul love it god is good love teach them about the bible 🙏🙏🇯🇲

What are you using for typing? What age do you like to start? Thanks!

Depending on your situation I think we do the best we can. We’re a family of 7 on lower income, all I can afford is those gummy vitamins.

We usually get up 5:45am get showered and dressed, breakfast with Daddy before he goes to work, I have a coffee with Daddy before he goes to work, we then do our exercises sing a hymn then pray and do homeschool between 8:30am - 11am, then have lunch and they have the afternoon to relax do crafts or go out in nature, days out etc. We do Mon- Fri also. I love watching your content, thanks for sharing Tabitha. ❤

Hi Tabitha 🌈🌻 I am also a mom of 6 while homeschooling 🫶🏼 much love from malaysia 🇲🇾

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Hi Tabitha. Where are the smaller kids when you're homeschooling and what are they doing? This is my first year homeschooling and wondering what to do with the 2 year old? Great video.

Hello Tabitha, fellow homeschool mom of 4 from Switzerland here. 🙌 How do you schedule/ incorporate cleaning/ house work tasks into your homeschool days? Have a great day, Miriam

Great video I’m looking into homeschooling my 3 youngest.

When do you guys do playdates/extra-curriculars/co-ops, etc if you dont get done until 4pm some days? We are always getting done by 10am so we can do playdates. Just curious!

What are the little guys doing?

What do you recommend or suggest for me when my oldest doesn’t want to do school lessons and whines about it lol she’s in 1st grade and we are a homeschool family as well. Mom of 3 - 3girls! 3yrs old, 6 yrs old and 8mnth old

What curriculum/video was it they were watching where she is saying mountain?

Take your kids to the Redwoods!

Just wondering, Who looks after the younger children when your home schooling?

I don’t know if our homeschool days will ever get better. They goof off constantly. My 6 year old boy doesn’t have any interest in sitting and focusing on learning anything. My oldest gets stressed out with simple things like writing a spelling list or basic subtraction and she’s in 4th grade. Every day is full of yelling and tears. I like the idea of having slow mornings but then when it’s time to sit and do work they don’t want to. Every year of homeschool seems like I get no where and it’s just full of anger and frustration. I’m just over it…

Mom of two boys-ages 12 and 9-We use a Mennonite curriculum because I love the simplicity of it for language arts, science, Bible and social studies. We use Apologia for math which my boys love! We do art ourselves in various ways. We do lots of nature walks and historical places around us. Sometimes RU-vid videos but we are a low screen family. We are usually done with school by 2:00pm if we take some breaks and we usually start around 9am.

I wish we were allowed to homeschool in germany 🙄

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC !!!! YOU ARE SUCH SN AWESOME MOTHER WITH A BIG HEARTBAND A KOT OF RESPECT FOR YOUR XHILDREN!!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER PARENTS , WHO COERCE THEIR KIDS TO WAKE UP AT THE CRACK OF DAWN, AND NOT TO HAVE BREAKFAST TILL MUCH LATER, UNTIL ALL THE CHORES ARE DONE, AND PLENTY OF MOTHERS EVEN FORBID THEM TO GOBDOWN TO THE KITCHEN BEFORE HALF EIGHT, EVEN A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD!!!, ALSO, INSTEAD OF COOKING THEM A PROPER BREAKFAST AND GIVE THEM TIME TO EAT IT SLOWLY, AS FOOD SHOULD BE EATEN,BEITHER THEY JUST GIVE THEM DOME FRUIT TO HAVE THEM EAT QUICKLY, HURRYING THEM TO START THEIR STUDIES, OR THEY MAKE THEM START BIBLE STUDY WITHOUT BREAKFAST, ONLY A FEW SNACKS JUST TO SHUT THEM UP, WHILE BIBLE STUDY IS ON, OR THEY ARE PERMITTED TO HAVE BREAKFAST, BUT TO HURRY THEM ALONG ALL THE SAME, THE BIBLE IS READ TO THEM WHILE THEY HAVE BREAKFAST!!!, THEY ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE CALLED PARENTS NOR CHRISTIANS ETC, WHEREAS YOU ARE A LOVELY LADY, REALLY A FANTASTIC MOTHER, WHO DOES RESPECT HER CHILDREN, AS ALL PARENTS SHOULD, FOR THOSE WHO IMPOSE KIDS THESE PREPOSTEROUS AND HEARTLESS RULES ARE CHILD ABUSWRS, WHOM GOD WILL PUNISH AGAINST THEIR SO- CALLED RICHTEOUSNESS, AND IM SURE YOUR CHILDREN ARE VERY HAPPY AND RELAXED, THEY LEARN, THEY STUDY, BUT ALL ALONG THEIR RUGHTS OF EAT IN PEACE WUTH RESPECT TOWARDS THEIR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ARE RESPECTED, AND YOU LET THEM GO AT THEIR PACE, FOR CHRISTIAN OR NOT, YOU DO RESPECT YOURKIDS AND THEOR RIGHT TO EAT ENJOYING THE😮R FOOD,BWHICH ISBEVERYBODYS RUGHT!!!, LOTS OF LOVE XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

May I ask if you having another baby?

Great ideas tho I don't agree with pushing religion on kids.

Hi Tabitha- Are you on IG? Your link doesn’t work. ❤

Great family and great advice. I remember in your other house you all fitting in at your kitchen table working so hard at school. You are so blessed to have such a great room for school now. So good to see the kids again. You have such a beautiful family.