Paying off a mortgage + Vaccines + Homeschooling in community + Budgeting for family 

Same. But I love them so much.

Same. Married and decided no kids. We have lots os nieces and nephews and I love them, but I also love when their parents come home to pick them up. Love this channel too!

mon f Same

Love that you guys stick around with us!!! ❤️

It’s just really nice to see all the decent human beings you are creating. Too many people have kids and do nothing to ensure their children grow up to be rational, kind, and hardworking people. Not a big fan of religion myself, but in my opinion you and Solo are totally nailing it as parents. Your kids are so compassionate and intelligent. That doesn’t happen by accident. Keep doing you. It’s obviously working. And it’s nice to know that your children are going to grow up and enter the world someday as adults and spread the love and compassion you’ve taught them. Gives me hope for humanity.

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Well here I am doing that exact thing I can’t just watch one then be done I have to binge watch them all

Same! Lol I get behind and then catch up.

See how late I am?😅 😂 Im doing that now😄

Same! Especially when they picked up on how many they were doing a week. I keep getting behind. But I can't stop binging when I have time.

Congratulations!

@Renee Matlock is there a specific curriculum you followed for your Autistic children? Or how did you handle there homeschooling? I have a 10yr old Autistic with developmental delay

@@simplymelaurad9643 I saw your question late last night and had to give what you asked some thought before I replied. Both of our neurodivergent children had some delays but we "worked around" both their delays AND their strengths. I also did NOT allow myself (or them) to be pushed into trying to teach our neurodivergent children to ACT neurotypical but rather worked to teach the neurotypical to ACCEPT our neurodivergent children as their delightfully, wonderfully, wildly, awesomely weird selves. We didn't have a particular curriculum we followed after the first 3 or 4 years (back when I had to have a teaching certificate & follow the Public School curriculum) but I also spent a LOT of time with the state guidelines for each grade we had figuring out how to teach within those guidelines to the kids' strengths and interests. For instance: our neurodivergent son was absolutely obsessed with the ISS a few years ago so for about 6 months Math, science, history, geography, social studies, English and even foreign language lessons *for him* absolutely revolved around the ISS. At the same time, his twin sister (who is neurotypical) was absolutely fascinated with all things medical so her lessons revolved around medicine. One of our other children's lessons at the same time revolved around music theory. Now, I should explain here, we did the tailoring of lessons to child because I learned early on that if the children were INTERESTED in what they were learning they weren't just memorizing but rather actually LEARNING. We also did NOT follow the school system calendar and the kids worked at *their* pace (meaning if the child met the guidelines for passing a particular grade in January I moved them on to the next grade instead of keeping them in a "holding pattern" for 9 months - because that is just a waste of time and energy) If you want to give homeschooling your son a try... take a look at Amy Maryon's homeschool site (Search for her here on YT and then look under her videos - she almost always posts a link to her homeschool site) and look at the curriculum she has up for his "grade" level. It's an excellent curriculum and it will allow you to "get your toes wet" in homeschooling without having to either build curricula specifically to your son OR having to purchase a bunch of different things to figure out what "works" for him. Hugs and keep asking questions.

@@reneematlock9657 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR RESPONSE. IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE AND MUCH APPRECIATED!!🙏❤

@@simplymelaurad9643 Homeschooling, for all it may look easy from the outside, is HARD. Homeschooling a neurodivergent child is harder. Don't make it harder on yourself by NOT asking questions. I'd rather take the time to answer what *you* (or someone else) may think is a "silly question" than I would have you (or someone else) flailing around trying to come up with answers but only being given the neurotypical answers (which never apply to our weirdly, wildly, wonderfully, delightfully awesome neurodivergent children) and frustrating both you and your child. Frustration isn't learning nor is it helpful, so avoid it where possible. Remember that every child is different and it may take you a little time to figure out what *works best* for your child and your family. We did what worked for our family. Remember as well that advice is just advice... it's NOT "set in stone" so take what you think will "work" for your family and leave what you don't think will "work" for your family.

Hi renee!! U adopted 16 children? Wow. My mom was pregnant 9 times but killed 7. I'm alive I was her 8th. She kept me. And also her first pregnancy. Congratulations for your love and dedication for children.

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That's right. ❤😊

We do have a piano and cello teacher. Music is important to us.

Joyce S. haven't you seen & heard the older boys play the piano in their vlogs, they are absolutely phenomenal. I believe most of the children take piano lessons.

@@cjrrob7336 yes I have! My response was to the person who wanted some direction for homeschooling, not to Sarah and Solo's kids!

@@OurTribeofMany Yes! I love hearing your kids play! My response was to the person who asked about help with homeschooling.😊

So great!

Amazing!

We were at a 7 year point and found a way to make a payment every two weeks. It really sped up our paying it off. It feels amazing not having that payment!

Awesome content

TRUTH!

Yes! You have to be very intentional about it. While my family was in a great financial position this time last year until April when my husband got laid off (he was the money maker) but in those 4 months we were able to pay off my car & some credit cards. We kept budgeting as much as we could on unemployment but got so depressed because we just couldn’t/can’t make ends meet a lot of the time & racked up more credit card debt. We stopped budgeting. We didn’t intentionally stop but we stopped being intentional about sitting down weekly and reviewing things. It was too depressing for us! We just started back up again last week & while it’s still depressing because we just don’t have money & my husband is still searching for a job but we live in a state where even restaurants are still closed so things aren’t available. My husband is literally only being home about 10% of what he was making. He had the job that paid very well for 4 months and we just threw all money at debts. Previous to that he had good jobs and we were able to pay bills but not really save or do anything but keep making normal payments. I keep praying that he’ll snag another job here soon. He’s become so depressed because we want to have children (my son is 13 & my husband & I got married last January) and buy a house but our credit that we built is wrecked. - that was long & didn’t mean for it to be. Long morning already haha Anyways the moral of the story is you have to consciously think about the budget. At all times whenever you’re spending money. Also some banks have smaller little “envelope” accounts that you can name anything you want. It’s SO helpful when budgeting.

@@tishharding Start looking in other states. You are not a tree you can move.

@@catherinek3409 we have but he hasn’t had much luck. We also really love our community though & don’t want to move. My son will start high school soon & I’m hesitant to move him because I remember getting moved around a lot as a child & it has created terrible memories. We are looking though because we do know we have to be realistic.

@@tishharding I remember 2008 economic downturn and how depressing it was to be jobless, we moved after being resistant, and it wasn't terrible.

Congratulations thats so encouraging

That's amazing!!

I didn’t notice that but 😂😂

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Amen!

Jamaican here too

Yeah but Sarah isn’t like that towards her own kids. Have you ever noticed that? Her mom is articulate and classy, but cold and disconnected from the older kids especially. I’ve always found it odd that you rarely see Sarah loving on any of her kids besides the 2 youngest. It is clear her mother was the same…not many hugs going on in that house.

What is a 401k?

@@tazp2566 A 401k is an employer-sponsored retirement account. It allows an employee to dedicate a percentage of their pre-tax salary to a retirement account. My employer matches up to 3% of what I put in. These funds are invested in a range of vehicles like stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and cash.

That is so awesome!!!

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Alisha I’m a homeschool mom of 4 in Baraboo! Lots of homeschoolers in our area! Get plugged in to the Baraboo or reedsburg homeschool co-op

@@kateankumah-saikoom5714 I would have never known. Thank you Kate!

15 year mortgage is the way to go. Really does not cost that much more for monthly payments.

Definitely not alone! We hear from people ALL the time dealing with this exact same thing.

Thank you Kate n Wilson for reaching out. I know there are more of us that feel this way, I just can't seem to find them. You have 5 beautiful gifts that were hand picked by God himself for you. I have 3. We are so blessed ❤

On the other end of the spectrum it’s not easy for us childfree people either. I constantly get harassed about my decision not to have kids. I’ve been to seven different doctors trying to get sterilized and they all tell me that I’ll change my mind someday. I’m 37 and decided at 13 being a mom was not for me, but since women aren’t allowed to feel that way according to society at large the judgement is never ending. The harassment and condemnation is never ending. I often resort to lying and telling people I’m infertile just to get them off my back about popping out some progeny. I have nothing but respect for GOOD parents who take on the task of creating and nurturing a whole new human being, but I think society as a whole needs to stop viewing parenthood and having children as a right. It’s not. It’s a responsibility. A responsibility to that child and to the world they will one day interact with as an adult. The biggest and most difficult responsibility anyone can ever take on. One I took a hard pass on. Solo and Sarah are amazing parents and I wish more parents were like them. The world would be a much nicer place. I firmly believe if more parents were like these two there wouldn’t be any school shootings or bullying or eating disorders or serial killers and so on. People need to stop having kids just because they can. If you can’t be a patient, kind, and selfless parent like these two who do everything they can in their power to uplift their children and ensure they are growing into good people don’t procreate.

@@klb2513 Wisconsin has gotten so bad. Born and raised here and I’m moving soon. Schools have become so terrible and public school teachers have gotten so aggressive and mean when people have finally stood up and said they don’t want their kids in the schools anymore. Welfare is so high and everyone else suffers in other areas

God bless y'all as you raise your families! May the Lord put people alongside you to support and encourage you. This really surprises me though. I grew up in Minnesota, and big families were really common.

Sounds like you are doing great!