WEBVTT 00:02.377 --> 00:05.842 [SPEAKER_00]: Christian parenting. 00:05.862 --> 00:11.791 [SPEAKER_00]: Today's episode is dedicated to the possible homeschool parents who think, I don't know if I can do this. 00:11.971 --> 00:12.853 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm smart enough. 00:13.413 --> 00:18.180 [SPEAKER_00]: It's also dedicated to those of you that are homeschooling and are questioning what you're doing. 00:18.541 --> 00:19.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it going to be successful? 00:20.163 --> 00:22.166 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that I can actually do this. 00:22.287 --> 00:31.320 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how your math and my child is five, but of course I need to know trigonometry by tomorrow in order to be able to educate them in 00:31.300 --> 00:33.004 [SPEAKER_00]: 10, 11, 12 years. 00:34.067 --> 00:48.482 [SPEAKER_00]: This episode is also dedicated to all of those bots or just people who hide behind user names on the internet that just like to hate on homeschooling and just like to be negative. 00:48.462 --> 00:52.366 [SPEAKER_00]: If you ever come across those, I would highly encourage you, don't engage. 00:52.847 --> 00:55.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to engage, maybe just drop this podcast episode. 00:55.069 --> 00:55.730 [SPEAKER_00]: You can tell them to me. 00:55.890 --> 00:58.413 [SPEAKER_00]: I will, I'll take care of them for you. 00:58.433 --> 01:05.641 [SPEAKER_00]: I can handle the hate or whatever negative comments that they want to make, but really for those people, they just don't want to open their eyes. 01:05.661 --> 01:07.283 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want to think about anything differently. 01:07.743 --> 01:09.585 [SPEAKER_00]: And so therefore, I just let it go. 01:09.605 --> 01:11.928 [SPEAKER_00]: I just have to just ignore it. 01:11.948 --> 01:13.930 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm encouraging you too as well. 01:13.910 --> 01:32.577 [SPEAKER_00]: But you are either a parent that's thinking about homeschooling, maybe in the next month pulling your kids out, but most likely you're thinking about it, it's possibly next year after the school year is done if you're pulling them out of school or maybe it's years down the road because you have little ones or maybe you are homeschooling and you're like, I don't know if it's going to work today's episode is. 01:32.810 --> 01:36.996 [SPEAKER_00]: not going to be, I don't want it to be a negative episode at all. 01:37.357 --> 01:46.891 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to point out some holes and some flaws in a school and education system so that then you can say, okay, what can I do that's different? 01:47.032 --> 01:49.575 [SPEAKER_00]: And how can I think about education differently? 01:49.696 --> 02:00.572 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you are thinking about education differently, this episode hopefully will kind of give you a little bit of a boost and say, okay, we are on the right track and home education is definitely the solution. 02:00.552 --> 02:09.753 [SPEAKER_00]: for our family and we just need to keep at it and you are the exact right person to be leading and guiding the home education of your children. 02:09.873 --> 02:11.457 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into it now. 02:13.867 --> 02:16.010 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Little By Little Home School Podcast. 02:16.171 --> 02:19.416 [SPEAKER_00]: I am Lee Nguyen, a mom who never intended to homeschool. 02:19.797 --> 02:23.783 [SPEAKER_00]: But all these years later, I couldn't imagine a better life for my family. 02:24.324 --> 02:26.608 [SPEAKER_00]: My hope is that I may offer you the encouragement. 02:26.848 --> 02:31.215 [SPEAKER_00]: I so desperately needed to begin and continue through all the years of home education. 02:31.576 --> 02:36.043 [SPEAKER_00]: I am so glad you're listening to this episode, so let's get into today's topic. 02:38.521 --> 02:48.177 [SPEAKER_00]: homeschooling and parenting in general is busy and sometimes chaos can happen before your coffee finishes brewing or the toast pops out of the 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is also in the show notes. 03:27.627 --> 03:30.835 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you go ahead and join that list and get that encouragement that you need. 03:31.096 --> 03:36.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's get into this episode and I want you to ask yourself this question and answer it honestly. 03:36.550 --> 03:42.465 [SPEAKER_00]: If you need to pause this episode and write it down or even just stop to actually think about it. 03:42.786 --> 03:43.628 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the question. 03:44.637 --> 04:04.148 [SPEAKER_00]: ask yourself am I smart enough to homeschool my children whether that is one child that is three that is five that is 15 25 I don't know if anybody has 25 kids, but it's just think about your kids and say to yourself am I smart enough to home school or home educate your kids. 04:04.212 --> 04:13.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, smart should be seen as a relative term in my opinion, but our society equals smart with school. 04:13.486 --> 04:18.914 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, did you get A's in school or did you receive certain degrees? 04:19.114 --> 04:22.980 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have certain certifications, certain accreditations? 04:22.960 --> 04:25.122 [SPEAKER_00]: you will hear this when it comes to homeschool. 04:25.142 --> 04:32.529 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're thinking about homeschooling, you will hear from people, well, don't you need some a degree at teaching degree to do that? 04:33.170 --> 04:36.913 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you tell people that you are homeschooling and they just say, you have your degree, right? 04:37.334 --> 04:40.617 [SPEAKER_00]: And they say it in a way that's like a passive aggressive kind of way. 04:40.637 --> 04:42.399 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not really asking you a question. 04:42.779 --> 04:44.841 [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes they really are genuinely curious. 04:44.861 --> 04:45.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what do you? 04:45.702 --> 04:51.027 [SPEAKER_00]: You can tell on the the tone of their voice and the inflection that they give, whether they really are curious or 04:51.007 --> 04:54.072 [SPEAKER_00]: they are just, they're looking down on that decision. 04:54.092 --> 05:08.593 [SPEAKER_00]: But in general, when we say that somebody is smart, oh, that's a smart person in that area, or that's a smart doctor, smart lawyer, or whatever, it is could have been the kid that was valedictorian of your high school class. 05:09.485 --> 05:11.147 [SPEAKER_00]: they equate that with school. 05:11.527 --> 05:21.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And school, the main focus, if you're really break it down, is memorizing information, regurgitating that information in facts and following directions. 05:22.339 --> 05:26.423 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how you get AIDS, being a good student. 05:26.443 --> 05:29.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And the more age you have, the smarter that it appears you look. 05:29.967 --> 05:33.531 [SPEAKER_00]: Now again, I'm not trying to knock the school system. 05:33.591 --> 05:38.496 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kind of poking some holes in some things 05:38.476 --> 05:42.325 [SPEAKER_00]: what smart is and rethink home education. 05:43.087 --> 05:51.928 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a maybe it was on Twitter, what you call it, Twitter or X, and someone reposted it on their Facebook, uh, somebody that I follow. 05:52.009 --> 05:56.299 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was basically saying, I don't have it right in front of you right now, but basically saying, 05:56.279 --> 06:01.787 [SPEAKER_00]: School is having kids, again, memorise and regurgitate this information all these facts. 06:02.268 --> 06:09.319 [SPEAKER_00]: When in your pocket, you can pull out a little mini computer and basically AI is doing that for you. 06:09.679 --> 06:15.789 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a question about something, you can ask that question to AI and this is going to continue to grow. 06:15.809 --> 06:19.975 [SPEAKER_00]: We can get into some of the talk about thoughts and everything on that. 06:20.815 --> 06:23.238 [SPEAKER_00]: But it just is a fact that it's out there. 06:23.758 --> 06:26.642 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is being used by the younger generation. 06:26.702 --> 06:28.103 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be used more and more. 06:28.124 --> 06:32.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what about some other skills that we could be teaching our children? 06:32.769 --> 06:37.054 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like, think about maybe, I don't know, there's a good example. 06:37.074 --> 06:39.357 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just think about before washing machines. 06:40.117 --> 06:41.819 [SPEAKER_00]: And washing machines come out. 06:41.880 --> 06:43.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we know when new inventions and things come out. 06:43.922 --> 06:44.863 [SPEAKER_00]: They're very expensive. 06:44.883 --> 06:50.029 [SPEAKER_00]: And they can take a little while 06:50.397 --> 07:00.371 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's common to have wash machines, but you over here are hand washing your clothing and you're trying to teach other people how to hand wash their clothing and the moms all around are like, I don't have time for that. 07:00.391 --> 07:11.427 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, that's a great thought and maybe if it's some type of delicate dress or a skirt, maybe I'll hand wash that, but I'm not going to hand wash all of my kids grubby clothing. 07:11.407 --> 07:26.985 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I kind of look at it a little bit like that is you're over here doing something a bit archaic, which again, if you're hand washing your clothing, more power to you, but you're doing something that you have chosen then to do and so with school, like 07:26.965 --> 07:31.914 [SPEAKER_00]: AI and in chat GBT all that kind of stuff is kind of like it's the washroom machine. 07:32.014 --> 07:32.375 [SPEAKER_00]: It's here. 07:32.395 --> 07:34.498 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to get better and smarter. 07:34.839 --> 07:36.923 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I know wash machines don't always get better in smarter. 07:36.943 --> 07:38.986 [SPEAKER_00]: I know people that a lot of issues with newer ones. 07:39.067 --> 07:40.850 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got an older one and I'm sticking with it. 07:41.411 --> 07:47.742 [SPEAKER_00]: But regardless of what you think about that post that I kind of just broke down very quickly. 07:47.722 --> 07:48.944 [SPEAKER_00]: It's here. 07:49.004 --> 08:01.200 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a faster way of getting information and so I used a blog and so I'm still in some blogger groups and circles and stuff on Facebook and I just, I'm glad that I got out of it because it is harder. 08:01.881 --> 08:03.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you ask a question, so here's an example. 08:04.123 --> 08:11.293 [SPEAKER_00]: I am getting ready for the conference and I wanted to get the hotels booked and everything, so also a spoiler alert. 08:11.313 --> 08:16.800 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're interested in the conference, we're going to be giving out some information. 08:16.780 --> 08:25.134 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's either in the show notes, you can just go to the website and go to conference and the list for that specific email list is on the conference webpage. 08:25.334 --> 08:28.339 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm looking and I'm kind of going back and forth between a couple different ones. 08:28.380 --> 08:39.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I could have just gone in in general and googled the specific type of hotel and read through 5 to 10 different maybe websites about. 08:39.899 --> 08:40.780 [SPEAKER_00]: What is their mission? 08:40.840 --> 08:41.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Are they kind of cheaper? 08:41.861 --> 08:44.464 [SPEAKER_00]: They know what are they known for for good things and bad things. 08:44.604 --> 08:47.467 [SPEAKER_00]: But instead, please don't be upset with me here. 08:48.368 --> 08:49.529 [SPEAKER_00]: I have to manage my time. 08:49.609 --> 08:52.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I've got a lot going on if you want the conference to happen. 08:52.292 --> 09:03.604 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to use some tools that are going to help me be able to facilitate it faster and so there's two hotels I was looking at and I just put in the two names and then like verses, you know, this one versus this one. 09:04.124 --> 09:08.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And within a couple seconds, it spit out some of the pros and the cons and some of the reviews. 09:08.789 --> 09:12.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, did I let the AI make that decision for which one? 09:13.235 --> 09:14.496 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I kind of read through it. 09:14.576 --> 09:23.948 [SPEAKER_00]: I also read other reviews, but instead of taking however long, 3, 5 to 10 websites on each one, I was able to make a more informed decision. 09:23.969 --> 09:24.890 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not betting. 09:24.990 --> 09:32.940 [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't put my life on the things that come out, but it is able to then call information from, say, so I'm saying before, blogging. 09:32.920 --> 09:42.721 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to get people to come to your blogs if you are not well known and established because it is pulling all the information from all those blogs and those websites at one point. 09:43.282 --> 09:50.878 [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll get off of the AI thing I could do an episode about that if you want to know more about it, but the younger generation is embracing it and therefore. 09:50.858 --> 09:53.040 [SPEAKER_00]: It, I'm not saying it's not a good thing. 09:53.240 --> 09:55.663 [SPEAKER_00]: We really should still memorize our math facts. 09:55.723 --> 09:57.785 [SPEAKER_00]: We should know that there's 12 inches in a foot. 09:57.845 --> 10:01.769 [SPEAKER_00]: We should know those things, because it is good for us to know those things. 10:01.929 --> 10:07.034 [SPEAKER_00]: And it would be foolish to have to look up those very basic things every single time. 10:07.835 --> 10:09.937 [SPEAKER_00]: But let's get back to our use smart enough to homeschool your children. 10:11.278 --> 10:17.524 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanna tell you that, mom or if dad's listening to this too, you are smarter than you think. 10:18.365 --> 10:24.476 [SPEAKER_00]: You have decided to homeschool or you're thinking about homeschooling, and when we do homeschool, we become pretty scrappy, don't we? 10:24.896 --> 10:30.686 [SPEAKER_00]: We are so invested and we will learn what we need to learn in order to home educate our children. 10:30.907 --> 10:33.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody desires their success. 10:33.451 --> 10:43.649 [SPEAKER_00]: However, you define that success more than mom and dad, and they will put the time, the energy, the budget, everything into it, and you are smarter than you think. 10:43.669 --> 10:45.872 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a five year old, you do not need to know trigonometry. 10:45.893 --> 10:51.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might never need to know trigonometry because that child might never get to trigonometry, and if they do. 10:51.963 --> 10:52.925 [SPEAKER_00]: you might say, you know what? 10:53.145 --> 10:54.608 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not interested in learning this. 10:54.748 --> 11:07.231 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to find a tutor or you're going to take an online class or you're going to take dual enrollment and get to that or you have a child that is so invested in learning trigonometry that they will do it themselves. 11:07.271 --> 11:10.697 [SPEAKER_00]: They will they will guide themselves through it. 11:11.487 --> 11:23.927 [SPEAKER_00]: But let's, as we are homeschooling our kids and questioning whether we're smart enough, lean into your strengths because those are a good thing, but also grow in your weaknesses. 11:24.160 --> 11:30.594 [SPEAKER_00]: maybe you have a hard time staying committed and sticking with your plan and homeschooling day in and day out. 11:30.614 --> 11:41.178 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that could be a weakness that you are seeing and it's not helping your kids and growing in their home education and in their what your vision and your goals are for them. 11:41.599 --> 11:43.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, then grow into that weakness. 11:43.904 --> 11:46.027 [SPEAKER_00]: This is when we partner with the Holy Spirit, okay? 11:46.908 --> 11:50.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when your kids are young, I want to give you this suggestion. 11:51.173 --> 11:56.439 [SPEAKER_00]: Just stay one day ahead and sometimes you don't even need to stay one day ahead. 11:57.040 --> 12:05.090 [SPEAKER_00]: There are many, many times that I would say slightly a day ahead or on Sundays I would kind of take a look and say, okay, in history, this is what we're going to cover. 12:05.290 --> 12:07.473 [SPEAKER_00]: In science, this is what we're going to cover this week. 12:07.553 --> 12:10.857 [SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe for math as I would lay out the 12:10.837 --> 12:15.002 [SPEAKER_00]: information and the books and everything for the next day and get things set up. 12:15.322 --> 12:17.585 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, okay, what is this one doing in math tomorrow? 12:17.645 --> 12:18.666 [SPEAKER_00]: This one doing in math? 12:18.746 --> 12:20.128 [SPEAKER_00]: What are they doing in language arts? 12:20.488 --> 12:36.988 [SPEAKER_00]: So that would kind of know and to be honest, in the beginning, I would read through lesson plans beforehand because I was just so nervous that I was going to get it wrong and not know things as my confidence grew because of the time that I had put into it and seen the success and the growth of my children's knowledge. 12:37.448 --> 12:40.472 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, we'll just kind of skim through it and 12:40.452 --> 12:47.269 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just pull out the math lesson book and I would just read the script that they had in it and my kids say, oh, okay, I got it. 12:47.349 --> 12:53.664 [SPEAKER_00]: So just say one day ahead, if you can manage that, but you can even just say one minute ahead. 12:54.205 --> 12:56.571 [SPEAKER_00]: This is when they are younger as they get older. 12:57.361 --> 13:00.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I found that I didn't have to necessarily do that. 13:00.265 --> 13:01.768 [SPEAKER_00]: We would learn together. 13:02.208 --> 13:04.352 [SPEAKER_00]: And they didn't see that as a bad thing. 13:04.472 --> 13:05.473 [SPEAKER_00]: I see it as a good thing. 13:05.774 --> 13:08.458 [SPEAKER_00]: That means that mom is still learning too. 13:08.638 --> 13:10.421 [SPEAKER_00]: That takes the pressure off of children. 13:10.461 --> 13:16.230 [SPEAKER_00]: The kids in school feel such pressure to have to know everything. 13:16.210 --> 13:16.791 [SPEAKER_00]: all the time. 13:17.453 --> 13:18.475 [SPEAKER_00]: But our kids say, you know what? 13:18.957 --> 13:19.578 [SPEAKER_00]: I see mom. 13:19.799 --> 13:22.505 [SPEAKER_00]: She is 35, 40, 45, however. 13:22.605 --> 13:23.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Old you are. 13:23.127 --> 13:24.951 [SPEAKER_00]: And she's still learning things. 13:25.151 --> 13:26.535 [SPEAKER_00]: And she's learning them along with me. 13:26.916 --> 13:31.266 [SPEAKER_00]: So that means when I'm 35, 40, 45, and younger and older, 13:31.246 --> 13:34.270 [SPEAKER_00]: that I can continue learning to and it's not a bad thing. 13:34.350 --> 13:41.178 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you question whether staying a day ahead is enough, I have heard from a handful of teachers. 13:41.198 --> 13:48.086 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like first hand information that they would say, oh, I only stayed a day ahead because a lot of their plans are just given to them. 13:48.126 --> 13:49.087 [SPEAKER_00]: They aren't writing plans. 13:49.227 --> 13:54.874 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember my grandmother was a kindergarten teacher and I never were writing out all her plans and getting all of her supplies and 13:54.854 --> 13:59.938 [SPEAKER_00]: and seeing all the effort that she put into it and hearing all of her stories. 14:00.659 --> 14:05.684 [SPEAKER_00]: But now the plans are, or it could be that you've written these plans and you've just kind of carried out every year. 14:05.744 --> 14:09.947 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's just staying one day ahead is what I heard the many teachers do. 14:10.007 --> 14:12.770 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, wow, okay, that takes the pressure off of me. 14:12.830 --> 14:19.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Thinking that I have to have the entire year figured out, I have to know all of the math that they're going to be doing, all of the science. 14:19.996 --> 14:23.359 [SPEAKER_00]: I have all that information known in my head. 14:23.339 --> 14:25.723 [SPEAKER_00]: for the entire year before I start teaching it now you don't. 14:27.025 --> 14:32.293 [SPEAKER_00]: You also though are not teaching your kids the way that you were taught in school. 14:34.236 --> 14:43.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Learning and gathering information is not to just we put in our head to come back out on a test and a written test but to be absorbed and to be built upon. 14:43.791 --> 14:51.743 [SPEAKER_00]: And therefore the goal is not to just spit lots of facts out and memorize a lot of things 14:51.723 --> 14:56.133 [SPEAKER_00]: to take this information and build upon it, but then also put it together. 14:56.173 --> 14:58.679 [SPEAKER_00]: The subjects don't have to be so separate. 14:59.100 --> 15:02.067 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're struggling with this, maybe try doing some unit studies. 15:02.488 --> 15:10.086 [SPEAKER_00]: It might help you to see how you can incorporate the different subjects together into studying one type of unit. 15:10.066 --> 15:21.365 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, through all of this, I just want to encourage you that if this question of, I don't think I'm smart enough to homeschool my kids, I shouldn't homeschool or I shouldn't continue, do not use that. 15:22.106 --> 15:24.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm going, I'm just going to call you out here. 15:24.610 --> 15:25.452 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an excuse. 15:25.492 --> 15:35.128 [SPEAKER_00]: It is what you're trying to find is a reason to not do the thing that you know that your children need or the thing 15:35.902 --> 15:57.167 [SPEAKER_00]: But also if you know that that's the best thing for your kids, maybe that is God calling you to do so, but don't use this excuse and don't let other people saying, well, I don't I don't know if you're smart enough to homes with your children, I have heard of home homeschool moms who have had family members say that to them to their face in front of their kids, even and it's just as it's just a terrible thing, but it's just is. 15:57.147 --> 16:03.757 [SPEAKER_00]: the school mindset of thinking we have to be so smart and so knowledgeable in every single area. 16:04.377 --> 16:07.662 [SPEAKER_00]: So think of an area that you might be really good in. 16:08.123 --> 16:12.349 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go and point out, I shouldn't point out, well, how can we not go in this other area? 16:12.609 --> 16:14.031 [SPEAKER_00]: See, you're really good at gardening. 16:14.432 --> 16:17.957 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not coming over to your house and saying, wow, what an amazing garden. 16:17.937 --> 16:27.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, how come you're not a CPA and doing the accounting and, you know, filing because in this tax time, why aren't you filing taxes for big corporations and stuff? 16:27.950 --> 16:29.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you wasting your time in this garden? 16:30.013 --> 16:31.495 [SPEAKER_00]: That would be silly of me to say. 16:32.035 --> 16:39.805 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are a great at gardening, keep up with the gardening and if you need a CPA, find somebody to do your taxes and you can do them yourself too. 16:40.126 --> 16:45.733 [SPEAKER_00]: But we don't have to be a brilliant end with our culture says is smart in every single area. 16:45.713 --> 16:47.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Spoiler alert. 16:47.555 --> 16:49.618 [SPEAKER_00]: I have two almost three. 16:49.658 --> 17:12.666 [SPEAKER_00]: We're getting close to three, graduated home schoolers, and I am not smarter than them in the areas that they excel in and do know what I see that as a testament to their ability to learn their willingness and wanting to learn and they also have learned through this process of home education and rethinking education looking at it differently because I was able to 17:12.646 --> 17:17.955 [SPEAKER_00]: help them do that and not pass on to them the way that I grew up thinking that smart had to be. 17:18.216 --> 17:23.265 [SPEAKER_00]: But they don't look at each other and say, oh, overall, my sibling is smarter than me. 17:23.285 --> 17:26.991 [SPEAKER_00]: They might say, you know what, this sibling knows more about this area. 17:27.632 --> 17:30.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, I actually have a question about that, or I want to 17:30.938 --> 17:32.019 [SPEAKER_00]: by a car. 17:32.320 --> 17:53.143 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me ask my sibling that knows a lot about cars or say can you come with me to take a look at this car as opposed to being like, well, I'm, I'm just, because I think jealousy can kind of get into those situations and pride, but when we can help our kids reframe what does smart look like and they can then use each other well and use each other as a resource. 17:53.163 --> 17:54.645 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's just a beautiful thing. 17:55.226 --> 18:00.051 [SPEAKER_00]: So I am not smarter than my graduated home schoolers in the areas that they excel in. 18:00.031 --> 18:06.581 [SPEAKER_00]: However, I do know more about things in the areas that I excel in than they do, and they'll ask me questions. 18:06.701 --> 18:10.106 [SPEAKER_00]: And together, we can be a mighty force. 18:10.567 --> 18:12.450 [SPEAKER_00]: We can partner together in different areas. 18:12.990 --> 18:16.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you get out into the world, just think. 18:16.536 --> 18:29.295 [SPEAKER_00]: When you look at people, and you could just see the grocery store at the gym, at Target, you can be at church, just look around at people. 18:29.275 --> 18:31.967 [SPEAKER_00]: everybody into the same box. 18:32.771 --> 18:36.568 [SPEAKER_00]: And so in general the world is not a put everyone in a box. 18:37.004 --> 18:42.732 [SPEAKER_00]: and that everybody has to know all of the same stuff and be, I mean, we would be robots then. 18:43.012 --> 18:48.239 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have to know all the same stuff, you have to react the same way, you have to have the same job, dress the same way, that would be so boring. 18:48.259 --> 18:49.681 [SPEAKER_00]: God did not create a world like that. 18:50.061 --> 18:52.365 [SPEAKER_00]: So adults don't put everyone in a box. 18:52.485 --> 18:55.429 [SPEAKER_00]: So you should educate your children like that. 18:55.949 --> 19:05.442 [SPEAKER_00]: Lean into your strengths and grow in your weaknesses, lean into their strengths, help them to grow in their weaknesses, get to know their gifts, their talents, and their abilities. 19:05.422 --> 19:10.772 [SPEAKER_00]: and I promise you that you are smart enough to homeschool your children. 19:10.812 --> 19:13.236 [SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is you just have to homeschool them. 19:13.476 --> 19:23.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Put one foot in front of another, do day after day after day and before you know those days will add in to months to years and you will look at graduated homeschoolers and say you know what. 19:24.170 --> 19:43.512 [SPEAKER_00]: I am not smarter than you and I don't know that I really felt that I was smart enough all the time to educate you, but I provided you with that time and those resources and look at the ways that you are just excelling and knowing that you as the homeschool parent you excel in areas that that they don't and that they're frankly not even interested in and that is okay. 19:43.492 --> 19:45.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining me today for this episode. 19:46.095 --> 19:55.786 [SPEAKER_00]: If you need some encouragement in this type of thing or just practical strategy when it comes to your homeschooling, I'd love to offer you the homeschool mentorship program. 19:56.107 --> 20:04.977 [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like more information about how you and I can meet one on one over Zoom over the course of a couple different times and just work through. 20:04.957 --> 20:18.346 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever concerns that you have about homeschool, I'd love to be able to meet with you and do that and get more information at littlebylittlehomeschool.com slash mentorship and as always, that and so many other links are in the show notes for you. 20:18.406 --> 20:22.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining me for today's episode and have a wonderful day.