WEBVTT 00:02.393 --> 00:05.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Christian parenting. 00:05.397 --> 00:08.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Right about now, you're probably finding yourself in one of two camps. 00:09.043 --> 00:14.671 [SPEAKER_00]: You're either in camp A and you're saying, wow, this homeschool year has flown by. 00:14.711 --> 00:16.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are towards the end of it. 00:17.155 --> 00:18.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Where did the time go? 00:19.158 --> 00:30.595 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you might be saying maybe those exact words, but in a different tone, you might be saying, wow, this year, can it not end soon enough? 00:30.575 --> 00:35.286 [SPEAKER_00]: And some years you might say, you might be in camp A and some years you might be in camp B. 00:35.567 --> 00:36.609 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's okay. 00:36.769 --> 00:39.997 [SPEAKER_00]: There's just different seasons, but you're saying either way to yourself. 00:40.498 --> 00:42.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are towards the end of April. 00:42.583 --> 00:44.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't know what your home school year looks like. 00:45.069 --> 00:47.875 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what your first day is or last day is. 00:47.855 --> 00:51.221 [SPEAKER_00]: But about now, there are moms that are finishing up. 00:51.722 --> 01:03.524 [SPEAKER_00]: I find that those that live in a warmer climate or here in the United States, maybe you live further down south and spring hits a little bit sooner, you guys tend to finish up the homeschool year sooner. 01:03.565 --> 01:07.011 [SPEAKER_00]: And those of us who are further up north because 01:06.991 --> 01:08.714 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's, it's not that warm yet. 01:08.834 --> 01:13.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And even though we might get touches of spring, we're okay to hang home school through at least a month of May. 01:14.503 --> 01:23.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you like to do year round, some like to go into June, it is completely up to you what you want to do, but today no matter where you find yourself. 01:23.478 --> 01:29.213 [SPEAKER_00]: maybe in the last couple of days, last couple of weeks, or maybe even the last couple of months that you still have left. 01:29.694 --> 01:30.837 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want you to flake out. 01:31.198 --> 01:33.705 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to finish this home school year strong. 01:34.106 --> 01:40.322 [SPEAKER_00]: You had a good head on your shoulders when you started in the fall, or maybe end of the summer, whenever your start date is, 01:40.302 --> 02:07.204 [SPEAKER_00]: let's keep a good head on our shoulders and let's finish well and strong so that you can look back and say that was a really good year doesn't mean there weren't ups and downs and there weren't hard days which can look back and just say I'm so glad they didn't flag out and that I kept going and we made some adjustments we're going to talk about that and how to do that but still to finish strong which is I want you to look back at the end of this homeschool year and say yeah we did it and we did a good job 02:09.361 --> 02:27.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to episode 457 of Little By Little Home School, and I am your host, Lee Nguyen, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode, whether you are in your first year or your 10th year or 20th year or maybe you are one of those moms that is listening because you are thinking about homeschool. 02:27.507 --> 02:29.850 [SPEAKER_00]: I am so glad that you are here. 02:29.830 --> 02:35.876 [SPEAKER_00]: On this podcast we talk about all kinds of things when it comes to homeschool, but also Christian motherhood. 02:36.197 --> 02:46.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Because homeschool is just an extension of our parenthood, of our motherhood and our desire to impart a biblical worldview on our children. 02:46.908 --> 02:51.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Society and culture at large will separate out education and parenting, but no. 02:51.212 --> 02:53.314 [SPEAKER_00]: In homeschool, it is home education. 02:53.415 --> 02:57.559 [SPEAKER_00]: We 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--> 03:43.674 [SPEAKER_00]: The link will be for you in the show notes. 03:43.794 --> 03:47.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Before I get into the couple of main points that I want to 03:47.320 --> 03:49.903 [SPEAKER_00]: help you to finish really well and strongly share. 03:49.963 --> 03:57.392 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to start off and say, what I do not mean when I say, don't flake out, finish this home school year strong. 03:57.693 --> 03:58.814 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I do not mean. 03:59.475 --> 04:06.684 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not mean that you have to finish every page and every lesson of every single subject that you're doing. 04:07.204 --> 04:13.412 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even saying that even from one subject that you have to finish every page and to every lesson. 04:13.392 --> 04:26.879 [SPEAKER_00]: When I learned this after, I guess maybe, maybe like year two or so of homeschool, it just gave me so much more freedom when I realized that even in the public school, they're not finishing all of the math lessons. 04:26.999 --> 04:33.713 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, okay, it kind of took a way off my shoulder because unfortunately we tend to look there, we tend to outsource 04:33.693 --> 04:38.821 [SPEAKER_00]: what we should be doing to what the public school is doing with children of similar ages. 04:39.462 --> 04:52.303 [SPEAKER_00]: But it just may be feel better like, okay, the homeschool regulations aren't going to be requiring this because the public school regulations are not even requiring this of the education of the kids. 04:52.423 --> 04:56.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, is there a difference between spending the entire year and only doing 04:56.710 --> 05:00.839 [SPEAKER_00]: 10 lessons of the math and getting to less than 150. 05:01.060 --> 05:03.325 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there is a vast difference in that. 05:03.405 --> 05:15.613 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're at less than 10, I'm going to hope that maybe it's because you're child finished up maybe the the level that they were at and you just started with the next level because you're like, well, I don't want to stop doing math. 05:15.593 --> 05:23.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, it's not that you're only on less than 10 after the entire year, and there aren't extinuating circumstances for why they could have happened. 05:23.807 --> 05:29.356 [SPEAKER_00]: But if the circumstances are because you didn't feel like doing it, then it's not really a good enough excuse, I'm sorry to tell you that. 05:30.238 --> 05:39.133 [SPEAKER_00]: But I am not saying, when I say to finish this year strong, I am not saying that strong means because you've finished every page and every lesson. 05:39.494 --> 05:41.517 [SPEAKER_00]: So take away it off your shoulders there. 05:41.935 --> 05:59.033 [SPEAKER_00]: I also do not mean that you have to start some type of in-depth lessons or start a unit study or start anything that maybe is just too much to do that requires more time than you have left. 05:59.013 --> 06:01.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is taking, we're not talking about math. 06:01.155 --> 06:02.276 [SPEAKER_00]: That's that's something different. 06:02.957 --> 06:07.201 [SPEAKER_00]: So say you are, I actually recently was talking to a friend and maybe she'll listen to episode in here. 06:07.361 --> 06:11.245 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, we never quite got to that constitution study that I wanted to do. 06:11.265 --> 06:13.067 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, well, don't start it now. 06:13.107 --> 06:14.488 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, oh yeah, we're not going to start it now. 06:14.508 --> 06:15.890 [SPEAKER_00]: We're just going to put it aside. 06:16.290 --> 06:22.456 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't take it off the shelf to do it originally on the shelf and we're going to do it next year because it is much more of an in-depth study. 06:22.777 --> 06:25.319 [SPEAKER_00]: So I am not meaning that you have to start something in-depth. 06:25.339 --> 06:26.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, we didn't do enough. 06:26.420 --> 06:28.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me start some really in-depth study. 06:28.122 --> 06:37.617 [SPEAKER_00]: feeling have four weeks to go and you want to open up maybe a little a tiny little canter worms find a unit study that you guys can do as a family and get done in that amount of time. 06:37.958 --> 06:38.639 [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't have to. 06:38.659 --> 06:39.520 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying you have to. 06:39.780 --> 06:47.873 [SPEAKER_00]: Just you have to go with what is your gut, what is your intuition, evaluating what you've done this year and is there something that you just didn't quite get to? 06:47.893 --> 06:53.522 [SPEAKER_00]: That is different than saying, okay, in order to start strong, I have to do some 06:53.502 --> 06:58.329 [SPEAKER_00]: program that is built out for maybe some type of eight week study, we're going to get it done in four weeks. 06:58.990 --> 06:59.711 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do that to yourself. 06:59.811 --> 07:08.304 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, what I do mean is this, I have five very hopefully simple things just to help encourage you to finish strong. 07:09.326 --> 07:16.877 [SPEAKER_00]: What I do mean is to give the last few weeks or month or months that you have left your best effort. 07:18.055 --> 07:19.276 [SPEAKER_00]: there can be many excuses. 07:19.616 --> 07:21.218 [SPEAKER_00]: I could come up with an excuse all the time. 07:21.798 --> 07:26.082 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember this is a little embarrassing because I think back now prior to kids. 07:26.122 --> 07:27.744 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what did I do with my time? 07:27.824 --> 07:29.405 [SPEAKER_00]: I just, I did not spend it well. 07:29.445 --> 07:31.167 [SPEAKER_00]: I wasted a lot of time. 07:31.667 --> 07:34.790 [SPEAKER_00]: But I was late for work all the time. 07:35.010 --> 07:36.131 [SPEAKER_00]: I was chronically late. 07:36.572 --> 07:39.594 [SPEAKER_00]: And every time, this is like post college. 07:39.674 --> 07:40.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, we were married. 07:40.916 --> 07:48.062 [SPEAKER_00]: And every time I started to realize I'm like, you have an excuse for being late every single time. 07:48.042 --> 07:50.385 [SPEAKER_00]: They were kind of sort of valid excuses. 07:50.485 --> 08:12.254 [SPEAKER_00]: I just remember for the one that just threw me over the edge to be like Okay, you have got to get your act together here and you have to maybe get up earlier There might be the reason, but my Claset system fell apart and I I don't know if I felt like I had to fix it before I went to work or I couldn't find my clothing I don't know but I remember thinking like okay That's my excuse for today. 08:12.274 --> 08:14.197 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like this is going to sound extreme. 08:14.557 --> 08:17.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there was a different excuse the day before there was another excuse 08:17.962 --> 08:38.822 [SPEAKER_00]: And I realized then that I was just coming up with excuses for maybe just my laziness or my inability to manage my time well so give the last few weeks or your last few month or months your best effort now that best effort you get to decide what that looks like but you know what your best effort is. 08:39.038 --> 08:41.281 [SPEAKER_00]: deep down, you know what that looks like. 08:41.761 --> 08:46.728 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're saying, I don't know if I'm giving it my best effort to stop and really think about it. 08:46.768 --> 08:53.456 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll be able to tell you know if it is or not or if you're just coming up with an excuse for why we can't do this today. 08:53.536 --> 08:55.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Why we can't do that to the other day. 08:55.218 --> 08:58.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about my my excuses that I came up for being late every day. 08:58.682 --> 09:02.727 [SPEAKER_00]: And we can call it the excuses for why not to do something all the time. 09:02.868 --> 09:05.030 [SPEAKER_00]: I can be the queen of procrastinators. 09:05.331 --> 09:07.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll admit that. 09:07.253 --> 09:08.677 [SPEAKER_00]: No, do it now. 09:08.877 --> 09:09.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Do the hard things now. 09:09.940 --> 09:11.143 [SPEAKER_00]: So give it your best effort. 09:11.624 --> 09:12.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the hard subjects. 09:12.666 --> 09:15.594 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the ones that you just, you're like, I'm so done. 09:15.634 --> 09:17.478 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to do another math lesson. 09:17.819 --> 09:23.473 [SPEAKER_00]: But you have maybe a second-third fourth grader and right now you're laying such a strong foundation. 09:23.555 --> 09:25.458 [SPEAKER_00]: And, or maybe they really want the math lesson. 09:25.558 --> 09:27.460 [SPEAKER_00]: There are kids out there who really want the math lesson. 09:27.841 --> 09:28.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Do the hard thing. 09:29.002 --> 09:30.284 [SPEAKER_00]: Do the math lesson today. 09:30.705 --> 09:31.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Do the math lesson tomorrow. 09:32.207 --> 09:33.629 [SPEAKER_00]: Do the math lesson the next day. 09:33.989 --> 09:35.251 [SPEAKER_00]: And finish well. 09:35.852 --> 09:37.074 [SPEAKER_00]: Give it your best effort. 09:37.194 --> 09:40.939 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, especially for your content subjects. 09:41.299 --> 09:48.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're unsure at content versus skill subjects are, I'll drop a link in the show notes for an episode that goes more in depth about that. 09:48.750 --> 09:51.233 [SPEAKER_00]: But especially for your content subjects. 09:51.398 --> 09:58.248 [SPEAKER_00]: If even if you're like, I am so over this or it is, let's just give an example, maybe it's your geography. 09:58.308 --> 10:03.516 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, I'm so over this or I didn't realize that this was going to be so work sheet heavy. 10:03.636 --> 10:09.144 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize it was just going to be such memorization, the kids are bored or we're stressed out about it. 10:09.164 --> 10:13.390 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just adding something more and it's just it's just too much. 10:13.910 --> 10:22.384 [SPEAKER_00]: If for some reason, it is not giving you life right now, especially for those content subjects, not necessarily the math and language art, the skill subjects. 10:23.022 --> 10:24.904 [SPEAKER_00]: then what if you're just done with it? 10:25.424 --> 10:41.881 [SPEAKER_00]: And what if you use that time, that energy, and that best effort that we just talked about, and you pour it into the subjects and the curriculum and the resources and maybe the outings and the field trips and the nature walks. 10:41.941 --> 10:48.507 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you pour into the ones, the things that are giving you guys life and just say, you know what? 10:48.487 --> 10:49.688 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to finish strong. 10:50.289 --> 10:55.514 [SPEAKER_00]: We gave this geography our best effort, but we're done with it right now, and put it aside. 10:55.975 --> 10:59.478 [SPEAKER_00]: And then pour your time and effort into the rest of your homeschool. 10:59.538 --> 11:03.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you're looking at the calendar, and hopefully you have maybe an end date. 11:04.383 --> 11:05.905 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got some fun things planned. 11:06.325 --> 11:10.410 [SPEAKER_00]: I do have an episode about that, about last day, and things you can celebrate, and that kind of stuff. 11:10.430 --> 11:16.536 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can listen to that one as well. 11:16.516 --> 11:24.947 [SPEAKER_00]: resources or video series or books or whatever it is that still need to be finished or that you want to finish. 11:25.448 --> 11:27.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, this is not school. 11:27.991 --> 11:28.972 [SPEAKER_00]: This is home education. 11:29.113 --> 11:30.515 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a way of life. 11:31.095 --> 11:34.660 [SPEAKER_00]: You can carry that over into the fall. 11:35.461 --> 11:37.784 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's say for example, maybe your history. 11:38.345 --> 11:43.772 [SPEAKER_00]: You are going through a book 11:45.018 --> 11:48.486 [SPEAKER_00]: you're like, well, if I, so say it's a series, it's like a four book series. 11:49.207 --> 11:50.290 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is book two. 11:50.931 --> 11:55.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you don't get all the way through, said thing if you start book three next homeschool year, the kids will like wait a minute. 11:56.363 --> 11:58.488 [SPEAKER_00]: What happened to that 200 years there? 11:58.508 --> 11:59.630 [SPEAKER_00]: We're kind of missing a gap. 11:59.790 --> 12:01.474 [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay to say, 12:01.454 --> 12:02.095 [SPEAKER_00]: This is great. 12:02.255 --> 12:03.957 [SPEAKER_00]: This is how far we got in at this year. 12:04.137 --> 12:08.662 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to put a bookmark in and this is where we're going to start next fall with our history. 12:08.743 --> 12:19.435 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is a perfectly fine and rational point of view that is great to actually do instead of missing that time or you're just saying you know what we're all just kind of a little bit burned out. 12:19.555 --> 12:25.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I would rather pour some more time and effort into our skill subjects into our math and our language arts. 12:25.282 --> 12:31.991 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to put a bookmark in our history and we're just going to pick up where we left off when we start again in August or September or October. 12:33.393 --> 12:36.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, there might be some subjects, especially math. 12:37.499 --> 12:46.772 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have not finished it, now the math that we did was a spiral method and so it continued to remind the kids of what they had done. 12:46.792 --> 12:52.420 [SPEAKER_00]: It was constantly there was review and I found that the last probably. 12:53.733 --> 12:55.397 [SPEAKER_00]: went to your so lessons, I would say. 12:55.417 --> 13:03.214 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's a lot of review in there, but it started to introduce some new math, we'll say, not new math coming according to like that. 13:03.555 --> 13:07.945 [SPEAKER_00]: We just started introducing some new topics and that they just kind of stopped. 13:08.617 --> 13:14.347 [SPEAKER_00]: But I found that the next one actually started off with reintroducing those. 13:14.367 --> 13:16.270 [SPEAKER_00]: So they were just introducing some concepts. 13:16.631 --> 13:21.119 [SPEAKER_00]: So that when the next homeschool year started, it wasn't brand new and fresh. 13:21.740 --> 13:24.024 [SPEAKER_00]: You might say, you know what, it's okay. 13:24.064 --> 13:25.467 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to get it next year. 13:25.527 --> 13:27.510 [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay if we don't do that introduction. 13:27.951 --> 13:31.317 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would very much emphasize on doing the review. 13:31.297 --> 13:35.322 [SPEAKER_00]: and maybe possibly doing that lightly over the summer. 13:35.903 --> 13:45.897 [SPEAKER_00]: You might say, okay, we have enough to do still through our math that it would be good for me to keep this solid and fresh in my children's minds, and so we're going to do one lesson a week. 13:46.437 --> 13:48.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Or we're just going to have them do review. 13:48.220 --> 13:56.691 [SPEAKER_00]: I opted not to do any new lessons, introduce any new concepts, because we got far enough in our math every year that just the review was enough. 13:56.711 --> 13:58.013 [SPEAKER_00]: And I found that they're 13:57.993 --> 14:00.418 [SPEAKER_00]: wasn't a loss of the concepts. 14:00.438 --> 14:02.642 [SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't, like, maybe we'll do look on their face. 14:02.702 --> 14:11.879 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, how come you don't remember your multiplication type to able and that frustration I would have once they had initially learned. 14:11.939 --> 14:13.943 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I don't want them to lose this. 14:14.364 --> 14:16.508 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we would do a review. 14:16.488 --> 14:26.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes in some seasons and some summers it was maybe every day for just like 10, 15 minutes just independent work for them just to work on a math worksheet, maybe there was 10 problems. 14:26.808 --> 14:34.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Other seasons it was maybe a couple days a week and I found that was very important to helping them to retain those concepts and for us. 14:34.342 --> 14:57.210 [SPEAKER_00]: Not to start off behind and sometimes in their math then the first 10 lessons, which completely review I was like we don't need to do these because you've been reviewing all summer So the third point was if you still have things to finish remember that this isn't school You can carry some of that over to the summer if you choose or you can put it on hold put a bookmark in it and carry it over into the fall 14:57.190 --> 15:23.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Now another way to finish strong so number four would be maybe to switch out some of that curriculum or maybe that history you know you just say okay we're just I've done a lot of reading this year we're just gonna book work on it we're gonna put it aside and I'm gonna switch out and we're gonna do more hands-on activities and we're going to maybe do more arts and crafts or stuff outside or nature stuff or maybe even field trips. 15:23.836 --> 15:34.961 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a good time of the year, it's not crowded if you want to maybe go to a historical site, it's not busy, maybe at different museums or outdoor parks because schools are still in session. 15:35.182 --> 15:42.418 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is a good time and the weather's typically decent for you to go ahead and do some of those field trips that maybe you have put on hold or 15:42.398 --> 15:48.189 [SPEAKER_00]: Just sometimes you can say, you know what, I'd like to break it up and maybe even thinking about doing field trips and you just didn't know how to incorporate them. 15:48.309 --> 15:54.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe here in your last couple of weeks, you say, you know what, we're going to do one field trip a week and it doesn't have to be anything extravagant. 15:54.822 --> 16:02.517 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe look around at your town, look around at towns that are around you, maybe look at a local city, just something you can do on a day trip and see. 16:02.497 --> 16:11.566 [SPEAKER_00]: What are some things that we can go and explore just within maybe 10, 15, 30, 45 minutes or so within our of our home and go and do that for the day? 16:12.007 --> 16:13.929 [SPEAKER_00]: That is still finishing strong. 16:14.710 --> 16:17.893 [SPEAKER_00]: Just doing book work doesn't mean that you are finishing strong. 16:18.273 --> 16:19.314 [SPEAKER_00]: There can be a combination. 16:19.375 --> 16:24.480 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean necessarily because you're doing some field trips that you're wimping out absolutely not. 16:24.980 --> 16:31.407 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember so many of the field trips that my kids went on 16:31.387 --> 16:34.753 [SPEAKER_00]: was really good for our relationships and just a lot of a lot of core memories from those. 16:34.913 --> 16:50.239 [SPEAKER_00]: And number five, this one right here is key to finishing your home school year strong, is that you as the homeschool mom need to keep a positive attitude about pushing through to reach the goals that you feel are important to reach. 16:50.219 --> 16:51.641 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully you set some goals. 16:51.902 --> 16:53.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully you have a vision for your help school first of all. 16:54.206 --> 17:01.999 [SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully maybe you have set some goals and you have some things that you want to accomplish and you might be just right there on the edge of accomplishing that. 17:02.320 --> 17:09.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe one of your goals was to do 10 read alouds and you are at just cracking on the spine on book number nine. 17:09.793 --> 17:11.055 [SPEAKER_00]: And you might say, you know, we're going to finish strong. 17:11.155 --> 17:12.538 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get those 10 in. 17:12.858 --> 17:15.703 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to read book nine and we're going to read book 10. 17:15.683 --> 17:19.892 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's also okay to say, we're not kind to, but maybe that's an important goal for you. 17:19.952 --> 17:23.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you started off the year, not ever doing a read aloud. 17:23.619 --> 17:25.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's important for you to say, you know what? 17:26.144 --> 17:32.477 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to read 10 read aloud books to them every home school year and on this very first home school year, congratulations. 17:32.457 --> 17:38.103 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing that on starting and doing that and saying, no, I'm going to reach my goal. 17:38.623 --> 17:40.726 [SPEAKER_00]: So decide what are the important goals. 17:41.126 --> 17:43.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some of those goals have had to move a little bit. 17:43.889 --> 17:51.196 [SPEAKER_00]: You've had to move them back or you might say, you know what, especially when I was just putting saying about putting the bookmark in the history, kind of the same way. 17:51.256 --> 17:55.921 [SPEAKER_00]: Might say, we need to just kind of put a bookmark in a pause on this goal and we'll start again in the fall. 17:56.001 --> 17:58.684 [SPEAKER_00]: And you might find that you reach that goal within a couple of weeks or 17:58.664 --> 18:01.168 [SPEAKER_00]: a month or a couple of months from starting the homeschool year. 18:01.188 --> 18:04.293 [SPEAKER_00]: It might not even take you the entire homeschool year in order to reach that goal. 18:04.894 --> 18:13.388 [SPEAKER_00]: But you have to maintain a positive attitude about pushing through some of those hard things or those goals that you feel that is important for you to reach. 18:13.509 --> 18:22.083 [SPEAKER_00]: The ones that you have set, and hopefully from the beginning of the homeschool year, or you did a mid-year evaluation after Christmas in January and you had set some new goals. 18:22.303 --> 18:25.228 [SPEAKER_00]: And now is the time to kind of push through. 18:25.664 --> 18:27.607 [SPEAKER_00]: if it's appropriate and to reach those goals. 18:27.727 --> 18:31.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you have never set any goals or you're not quite sure what does that look like? 18:32.014 --> 18:33.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it really feasible? 18:33.936 --> 18:35.258 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it something that is practical? 18:35.339 --> 18:37.261 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it something that I really should be doing? 18:37.282 --> 18:42.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the goals are a, they're like a tear below your vision. 18:42.910 --> 18:46.296 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you haven't said a vision for your homeschool, it's really hard to set goals. 18:46.496 --> 18:50.384 [SPEAKER_00]: And there really should be some time that we sit down and we evaluate. 18:50.604 --> 18:55.032 [SPEAKER_00]: And we just really look at each of our kids and say, what is what is this one need? 18:55.072 --> 18:55.994 [SPEAKER_00]: And what is that one need? 18:56.014 --> 18:58.679 [SPEAKER_00]: And what are we really trying to accomplish with the homeschool? 18:58.959 --> 19:01.163 [SPEAKER_00]: What is the, what are the important things for us to do? 19:01.724 --> 19:05.150 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a good time of the year to go ahead and get started in your homeschool blueprint. 19:05.190 --> 19:06.673 [SPEAKER_00]: Because guess what? 19:06.653 --> 19:28.046 [SPEAKER_00]: it'll help you to decide what is the curriculum you're going to be using for next home school year and being able to get those and purchase and then you can put them away, put them aside, do the things you need to go with the summer and then you can crack open those fresh spines and then check it login to those resources and whatever it is that you choose come the fall, but you can also take your time through the summer and go through your home school blueprint. 19:28.066 --> 19:35.277 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no rush to have your curriculum all chosen and all picked out before the summer, unless that's your personality and that's going to make you 19:35.257 --> 19:54.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Relax a little bit and enjoy your summer a little bit more, but you can get more information at your about your homeschool blueprint at littlebylittlehomeschool.com slash blueprint that link will be for you in the show notes as well as some other episodes that will go well with this one as well as that resource for the moms, dads and grads. 19:54.739 --> 19:57.062 [SPEAKER_00]: All of that is in the show notes for you.