This was so validating as a new homeschool mama to 4. Its truly impossible to "do it all", and I try to tell myself that often. But just hearing what you do and dont do encouraged me a lot and I feel more freedom already. Totally forgot about unit studies too, I am really interested in trying a unit study now. Thank you for your content! 😊
Thank you for your encouragement! This is my 12th year homeschooling and I still feel like I'm trying to figure it out. I have kids in grades 11th, 10th, 6th, 4th, 1st and a preschooler. How we started out homeschooling looks WAY different than how we homeschool now.
You should know you've been a real encouragement to me today :) I'm literally tearing through all our curriculum currently analyzing things for next year and listening to your videos in the background haha.
Love how honest this was. The world makes us feel like we will never be doing enough and it’s so good to hear in your video and the comments that we are doing okay.
The elk processing and hunting and all those yee yee thing's are a bazillion times more brilliant, smart and helpful- respectful teaching tools than any extra curricular subject aside math and language. Do your thing Lady. We will be jealous. 🤣
We don’t do sports or “nature studies” either, but we are outside a lot and my hubby is teaching all of our kids to hunt on foot! Awesome video as always!💖 And how cool that you are left handed! I am, too!
Sarah!!!! ❤️🌻❤️ I am so, so happy you're here! Welcome, friend! It makes my heart so full knowing that God is using this space to encourage and inspire other women! !🙌
I love your homeschool style so much! Our family style is similar, including the outdoor lifestyle. The last 2 years, my 9 and 8 year old have been helping me process our deer. After school, the kids will often times go with their dad and do ranch work. I know my kids will never have "office jobs". While we do the core stuff and sometimes the extras, I'm focusing on building their self-sufficiency skills and working skills. When my sons get old enough, we will teach him to show horses so he can do that as his job in high school. You are so blessed mama!
Love your heart, friend! You are always such an encouragement! ❤ Also… we are so on the same wavelength! This is the same content idea I was planning to shoot next! 😅
Well get.👏It.👏girl!!!! It is always so encouraging to me to watch these types of videos and I can't wait to watch yours! 💕 Thankful for your friendship.
Momma, I absolutely love your videos!!! As a homeschooling momma of 3 boys, our homeschooling looks so much like yours!! I wish we lived close to meet for coffee 🤪 Keep it up, you are doing amazing work in your home and on social media and I want to shout it from the roof tops, THANK YOU!!! ❤️❤️
Praise the Lord that you say no to sports! I dread the end of July through the end of October. It eats up so much time. Our kids do cheer and football.
We love hiking, camping, my husband hunts and is willing to teach the kids when they're old enough. I appreciate that you shared this. It's always what people ask me. "Do you guys do music, sports, foreign language, a co-op, cottage school." We've done some of these but they've never been a priority.
I feel we have very similar styles of homeschool! We don’t play sports, but we do nourish each of my kiddos interest. Like my oldest loves art and she paints and draws beautifully, so we take her to an art class to help grow her skills far better than I could! And my youngest loves dance so she take a dance class. Homeschool definitely helps us focus on the things the suit us and not try and do “all the things”. No set schedule, our days take 4 hours max. I too tried to do the extras but it does lead to burn out real quick! No science experiment unless included in unit study , teaching textbooks saves me from math headache , and your videos encourage me to keep going! So thank you for this!! ❤
Thank you so much for this video. It was so encouraging. Loved hearing what you do your homeschool with your boys. I homeschool 2 boys. I haven't done unit studies but I really want to try it. Also, I love doing read alouds with my boys, my favourite part of the day. We recently finished Wild Robot Escapes. They loved it. Now we are reading Peter Pan. Thank you again so helpful! Your days sound wonderful with your boys.
Old school Homeschooling Mom...6 kids but with the 1st two I didn't listen to myself and listen to others and tried to keep up and ended up both my oldest two going to public school in 6th grade and looking myself and my older children wished we would have just stuck with and found our own flow....with 4 at home Iam doing it all different....but still struggle with doing do to much!!!! We love co-op our is twice a week but it helps out so much and covers so much it is great!! My kids have extra activities like sports, dance, tumbling and scouts but that changes up season to season. Currently soccer just ended and will take break from others because it is deer hunting season here for us. I love you because people often items don't truly understand what thriving means and ypu help to validate their way is ok!!! Keep it up sis!!!!
U are so amazing! I love all of your videos. Thank you for being so transparent and honest about your journey. It’s really freeing to hear this and b okay with our homeschool not liking like someone else’s. Keep being a light!
We love read aloud.we are reading to my granddaughter.we are hoping to do more music .we love music .I love our morning basket time.but she is 5 and that is when we do our Bible time .we do Bible stories and our prayer journal.i really appreciate you doing these chats .you are a blessing to me.thank you and God bless you and yours...we live in the mountains.hunting fishing gardening and just enjoying what God has given us.have a great weekend.blessing and prayers my friend.
Oh my goodness…. I love everything about this video! I’m a homeschool momma of 8 years with 3 boys too!!! I feel like I can breathe when I listen to your videos! I’m trying some different schedules this year… looping subjects … more read a louds and taking more breaks through the year!!!
We've been homeschooling 19 years with a few more years to go. I've tried nature study, composer study, picture study, morning time, art, at different seasons and times in our lives. We are no longer making those things part of our day on purpose. Our three boys have graduated now but, We didn't do a structured shop class, home economics. While still school age, two of our boys drew up the plans, researched materials to build a 10x12 shed, watched RU-vid video to learn how to build it, shopped for the tools they needed to build it. Shopped for the lumber, choosing the materials. All without any help from my husband, except for the money and general talking over the plans. He knows nothing of construction. They even talked to the power company and electrician about an overhead wire. After building the shed, they then built us a nice chicken coop and run. One of the boys has created an app. We couldn't keep up with science experiments. Typing has been learned on the fly. They're always researching on the computer, writing emails to a missionary friend, etc. Phys Ed is all the biking, lawn mowing (push mower), snow shoveling (we get lots). It can take all of them working at it even with one small snow blower to help. We've struggled with keeping with any kind of writing curriculum and yet they are doing much better than expected in the real world with any writing that is needed. In the younger years our two oldest read a lot. They learned a lot from the Childcraft books. They read lots of living history books and science books. They'd get books from the library about weather, first aid, machinery etc. Whatever interested them at the time. I tried to keep a school schedule but over the years we struggled with that. We are not keeping one now. Some days we're just doing life. But Math and some form of language and reading I try to keep doing. We do lots of spontaneous singing. We're involved with church twice on Sunday and once in the week, plus church camp. Pretty much a lot of what you said has been our experience as well.
I don't do chore list eiather, we got in the habit when I was pregnant with my 3rd baby that they pick up the floors ( pregnancy makes it hard to reach the floor). And they have clean their rooms every thing else I ask for help when I need it oh and my son is in charge of taking out the trash... we love our read alouds, we do art like you do and Nature study is getting out it in and when I can remember we do like to journal Nature. Unit studies are a fun thing we do off and on. We also enjoy our table time that we do at lunch time. I'm on 12th year of homeschooling!! We have tried many different types of schedules, routines ect ect.... we don't and never have done a co-op well we tried one day and it didn't work out the parents were very much a click like in highschool public school, and the kids were just shut off and rude to mine he hated it so much that first time we never went back... we have had times where we done wveeything I wanted the plan went smooth and amazingly and had fun and we had time of not doing anything and times of struggle and what am I doing wrong. And having a kid woth dyslexia and adhd throws alot of hair pulling and stress into the mix... Currently homeschooling 4 ,with a baby due soon.
I really enjoyed this video. We are in our third year homeschooling and your routine is very similar to ours. My son loves spending time outside and is not interested in sports. He'd rather be in the shop working on trucks or riding his four wheeler 😊
We don’t do any kind of homeschool co-op or really get together with other homeschooling families at all (partially because we just haven’t gotten out to meet any 😅). With a young first grader, preschooler, 2 year old, and 4 month baby it’s just so much easier to stay home the vast majority of the time - I’m definitely on team simple and slow living! We also don’t do a formal nature study but love getting outside, hiking and camping! And my husband is so excited for the day he can start taking the kids hunting with him 🤗
💕 this!!!!! Ty! U Mentioned going to grab your grocery pick up… I’d love to hear your Meal planning for the week. Girl, I’ve got growing boys , like u, & the grocery bill is through the roof🤯!! Killing me!!!! Love to hear any good recipes that are budget friendly😜
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I like listening to you. We have three boys so it is nice to see how you do things.
This video has helped me so much. I relate in so many ways! I’m just having a hard time with my 10yr old wanting to be around more kids. Ugh but thank you for this video definitely brought some peace to this mommas heart! Our days look very similar to yours too and sometimes I feel bad bc I don’t do “all the things”!
Oh my goodness, your boys sound amazing. I hope some day my nature loving girls meet boys like yours. Someday. lol We also do not do ANY sports or watch sports. Love your videos!❤
I absolutely hate math. I mean despise, but this curriculum Denison Algebra Success algebra has helped me and my daughter both learn and not hate math sooooo much! I feel your pain with that one!
What a fun video! We don't do a co-op, but we do participate in public high school band/sports (cross country). I have never belonged to a co-op in our 12 years of homeschooling, partly because there wasn't one even close to us. Maybe that is why we use the public school for sports/band 🤔Now there are more options available because so many more people are homeschooling, but we are so ingrained in our homeschool rhythm, I can't give up the freedom to try and join something new 🤣
I don’t do crafts. I see glitter and googly eyes and I’m out 🙌🏻 We do love read alouds, nature hikes, watercolor painting, sourdough baking, puzzles... as far as extracurriculars, my oldest is only 9 and this is the first year I’ve really said yes because it’s the first year she’s asked! In our homeschool, they have to show me that THEY are interested in something consistently for a period of time and then I will sign them up. I don’t do anything just bc we “should” except what the state requires.
We don't do nature study either. Our backyard is literally a forest. We have a marshy field next door. We have a mini farm on our 1 acre lot. Every single day there is something to notice or observe. I don't do a themed morning basket. I don't do unit studies or literature studies. I don't do art except for what is already built into TGTB LA. I'm really bad at getting all the things for those science experiments. We don't do co-op simply because there isn't one locally. We don't do sports either. My boys do take band at the local high school. They help run all the tech and gear at church during youth group and Sundays. My middle child loves making clips and intro videos for the church youtube channel. He will be part of the worship team in another year or so.
any tips for how to get into hunting/hiking what it looks like with kiddos? I have a 6 year old son and want to get started hunting but it would be all new for me as well ...thank you!
Thank you for this video. Wow....our homeschool is VERY similar. I have 6 kids, oldest is about to turn 16 and wants a job. I'm so nervous about letting him do it. You know, him being around people I don't know ...makes my mind start imagining crazy things.. Just curious, how you handled that with your son.
Hey Jonae! Thank you for watching! I had the exact same worries you are talking about and then God opened the door for him to work where my husband works! 🙌 Prior to that, I was right where you are, mama. God knew! 🙌❤️
Hey momma! I’ve been binge watching your videos as of recently. Although we live in different types of environment- I’m in Las Vegas 😖, we do however share something in common. I have 3 boys such as yourself. Mine are 4, 5, and 7. You’re videos help me in so many ways and I just wanted to say thank you. I would like to ask you if you could give me any piece of advice for homeschooling at this age what would it be? AND I know this is so personal but do you have any advise on how to handle like all the fighting and wildness that comes from having 3 boys. It’s driving me crazy and I find myself yelling and then I feel so disappointed in myself for reacting in that way. What kind of discipline methods have worked and not worked? I’m afraid I’m messing it all up. Also Thank you in advance ❤️
Thank you for watching. 💕 I will do my best to complie some thoughts and share them but mama...know this. You are not messing it all up. Be encouraged and take it one day at a time. 🤗💕
As far as reports...I haven't even assigned any books to the boys. 🤷♀️ I let them choose and we discuss them together! ❤️ OR, we read aloud... together!
