WEBVTT 00:02.377 --> 00:13.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Christian parenting it really is no secret that when I began home schooling I was looking for what I call the golden goose of homeschool curriculum. 00:13.824 --> 00:19.607 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that there was just one homeschool curriculum out there that would work and I just had to find it. 00:19.687 --> 00:21.008 [SPEAKER_00]: I was on a scavenger hunt. 00:21.828 --> 00:27.854 [SPEAKER_00]: and my first exposure to homeschool was going to a homeschool conference by kids were actually still in public school. 00:28.274 --> 00:35.562 [SPEAKER_00]: And the youngest one, I sent them off to my mother-in-laws, and I went and spent the day and well as a couple of days, and I absolutely loved it. 00:36.362 --> 00:45.387 [SPEAKER_00]: There was one resource that I came upon that year, and it became a, basically, a necessary stop in my conference shopping. 00:45.547 --> 00:49.890 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course now, we've moved away from catalogs, and there is online purchasing. 00:50.370 --> 00:53.472 [SPEAKER_00]: And that resource is called Rainbow Resource. 00:54.252 --> 00:55.753 [SPEAKER_00]: Think of a homeschool curriculum. 00:56.013 --> 00:56.414 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yep. 00:56.454 --> 00:59.896 [SPEAKER_00]: They probably have it if you have spent any time. 00:59.936 --> 01:01.637 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I remember getting the catalog. 01:01.717 --> 01:02.518 [SPEAKER_00]: It was so thick. 01:02.578 --> 01:08.662 [SPEAKER_00]: It was like a Christmas, you know, a Christmas, the kids used to get catalogs full of toys and stuff like that. 01:09.042 --> 01:09.963 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it felt like. 01:10.083 --> 01:12.445 [SPEAKER_00]: It felt like Christmas day when that catalog would come. 01:12.465 --> 01:14.026 [SPEAKER_00]: And now you can prove online. 01:14.486 --> 01:16.888 [SPEAKER_00]: Rainbow resource has so many different options. 01:17.028 --> 01:17.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And to be honest, 01:18.842 --> 01:19.642 [SPEAKER_00]: the best prices. 01:20.243 --> 01:31.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I have looked around and it also just makes it so super simple instead of ordering from a bunch of different places, I can order everything that I would need for that home school year from one place and it would come in one box. 01:32.327 --> 01:38.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go back to that goal and go try to figure out your home school and which may be curriculum and you have some questions. 01:39.130 --> 01:42.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Rainbow resource also offers guidance with that. 01:42.312 --> 01:49.016 [SPEAKER_00]: You can actually chat with a homeschool mom through Rainbow Resource and they will help you figure that out. 01:49.116 --> 01:52.518 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you have some questions and I know sometimes those chats. 01:52.959 --> 01:57.061 [SPEAKER_00]: They are really difficult in its AI and they're not quite getting what you're saying. 01:57.141 --> 02:01.204 [SPEAKER_00]: You can actually talk to a live homeschool mom. 02:01.324 --> 02:02.445 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there's some dads too. 02:03.005 --> 02:04.086 [SPEAKER_00]: but you can get some answers. 02:04.506 --> 02:08.730 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I want to encourage you to check out rainbowresource at rainbowresource.com. 02:08.830 --> 02:10.252 [SPEAKER_00]: I will put the link in the show notes. 02:10.832 --> 02:17.959 [SPEAKER_00]: Little by little homeschool conference is so blessed by rainbowresources sponsorship of this year's conference. 02:18.059 --> 02:24.585 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are interested in the conference, go ahead and check out the link in the show notes, but basically you can go to my website little by little homeschool.com. 02:24.645 --> 02:29.029 [SPEAKER_00]: You can tap it and then on the menu, you can hit conference or put in the slash, 02:29.269 --> 02:36.031 [SPEAKER_00]: conference but we are just so blessed and you'll see the rainbow resource logo there on that flight and you can always get to rainbow resource from that. 02:36.391 --> 02:46.534 [SPEAKER_00]: But I just want to encourage you as you are looking maybe for some last minute homes will curriculum or perhaps you have not gotten your stuff in order yet and you're like oh I need to do that. 02:46.794 --> 02:50.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's your reminder to do that and go check out rainbow resource, get everything in one place. 02:51.315 --> 02:57.897 [SPEAKER_00]: They are a wonderful company and I have been blessed by them for the past 15 years and I know that you will be as well. 03:00.606 --> 03:02.768 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Little By Little Home School podcast. 03:02.788 --> 03:08.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Today's episode is about you trying to look for the easy button for homeschool. 03:08.611 --> 03:13.355 [SPEAKER_00]: And instead of looking for that easy button, I want you to do these things instead. 03:14.135 --> 03:15.116 [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Liniwen. 03:15.376 --> 03:18.498 [SPEAKER_00]: I am a, I guess I should say now, a former homeschool mom. 03:19.099 --> 03:25.023 [SPEAKER_00]: That's because my kids all graduated and it has been such a big blessing in our family and in our lives and really. 03:25.943 --> 03:42.516 [SPEAKER_00]: altered the path that our entire family was on and our kids individually and it really adjusted the way that my husband and I looked at life and looked at raising our children and I want to encourage you to do the same thing and that is one of our main focuses here at Little By Little Homesville. 03:42.776 --> 03:44.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's get into today's episode. 03:47.678 --> 03:49.319 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember that easy button? 03:49.639 --> 03:51.020 [SPEAKER_00]: They might still have commercials for that. 03:51.040 --> 03:52.021 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really quite sure. 03:52.621 --> 04:00.546 [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a staple's store commercial and a red button with the letters in white that said easy on it. 04:00.647 --> 04:06.130 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I looked this up, I found out that basically I kind of had a slogan for it and a reasoning for it. 04:06.550 --> 04:15.156 [SPEAKER_00]: And it said that the button serves as an almost magical ability for the retailer to solve all their shoppers problems instantly. 04:15.236 --> 04:16.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's insert. 04:16.977 --> 04:44.208 [SPEAKER_00]: homeschool mom into the shoppers and you are looking for that easy button just in a magic ability for I don't know who somebody for the easy button itself or something to solve all of your homeschool problems instantly and there are a lot of problems that come up a lot of hurdles that come up and as homeschool moms I just know you're overwhelmed it's not just the homeschool it's the raising of the kids it's getting them to eat maybe some decent meals it's 04:44.708 --> 05:06.147 [SPEAKER_00]: the bedtime routine, and everything that goes along with that, and then kids up at night, up early in the morning, we have some early risers, and you're not an early riser, and it's the confrontation between math with you, and maybe one of your kids, and it's the bad attitude, it's the groaning, and it's the soccer practice, and the piano lessons, and just all of those things combined. 05:06.888 --> 05:08.449 [SPEAKER_00]: and so it's not just the homeschool. 05:09.050 --> 05:15.254 [SPEAKER_00]: That just kind of seems to be the thing that we get to the point where just like this homeschool is just too much. 05:15.294 --> 05:25.801 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe it's the soccer practice and the piano lessons and the swim lessons and this and that and the meals may be a lack of having some type of meal plan. 05:25.861 --> 05:29.163 [SPEAKER_00]: It could be a lot of different things but tends to come out in our homeschool. 05:29.204 --> 05:33.587 [SPEAKER_00]: So I hear a lot from moms just saying like how can I do this easier? 05:33.627 --> 05:33.967 [SPEAKER_00]: How can I 05:36.368 --> 05:38.550 [SPEAKER_00]: I get it, we're looking for things to make it easier. 05:39.170 --> 05:40.671 [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of maybe silly example. 05:41.272 --> 05:48.937 [SPEAKER_00]: I will talk to my youngest and maybe it's at the gym and I'm doing something new or something a little different and I'll be like, oh, you know, I was doing this and then I saved it to him. 05:49.778 --> 05:52.460 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't actually do it that well because I was cheating. 05:52.660 --> 05:55.801 [SPEAKER_00]: My body is always trying to look for the easier way. 05:56.422 --> 06:00.703 [SPEAKER_00]: The easier way to maybe do that curl with the dumbbells. 06:01.044 --> 06:06.946 [SPEAKER_00]: It's using my shoulder to kind of lift it up instead of using my bicep to lift it up and have to be conscious of that. 06:07.426 --> 06:11.928 [SPEAKER_00]: And so you have to be conscious of it too of trying to find the easy way out. 06:12.648 --> 06:17.130 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I have a couple things that I want to share with you and I want you to do these things instead 06:18.691 --> 06:33.337 [SPEAKER_00]: To I'll be honest and straightforward and tell you instead of wasting your time looking for the easy button do these I have four things do this instead Are you ready for number one, we're just like we're gonna go right for the jugular here on this one Number one is to choose to be content 06:33.957 --> 06:36.219 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe your life doesn't look like how you thought it was going to be. 06:36.279 --> 06:44.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe your kids, just they aren't the personalities and it's just it's you're hitting challenges that you just didn't think that you were going to have. 06:44.706 --> 06:46.568 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe it's not even anything extreme. 06:47.068 --> 06:48.449 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just life. 06:48.890 --> 06:53.553 [SPEAKER_00]: There's just a lot of responsibilities and a lot of falling on your shoulders and a lot of emotions. 06:54.374 --> 06:55.955 [SPEAKER_00]: choose to be content. 06:56.315 --> 07:19.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's not just like this resolve of I will be content because we'll see that in the world it'll be slogans like be kind like you really can't be kind because you're a sinful person but you can be kinder the Holy Spirit can help you be kinder and be more patient and I'm gonna do this and be this without the Holy Spirit guiding us we're gonna fall short 07:23.483 --> 07:26.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, help me to be more content. 07:26.365 --> 07:27.786 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm laying this down. 07:29.208 --> 07:34.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know when I am thinking to myself thoughts that are not of contentment. 07:35.052 --> 07:36.193 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, we're just choosing that. 07:36.233 --> 07:39.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I did do an episode about being a happy homeschool mom. 07:39.556 --> 07:40.456 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, happy content. 07:40.476 --> 07:41.477 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not the same thing. 07:41.837 --> 07:48.883 [SPEAKER_00]: But I really think that that list of different things that I mentioned will really help you to flesh out this choosing to be content. 07:49.323 --> 07:51.924 [SPEAKER_00]: and I will link that episode in the show notes for you. 07:52.304 --> 08:01.486 [SPEAKER_00]: But the first thing to do instead of just looking for the easy button is to choose, just walk through whatever it is that is hard and choose to be content through it. 08:02.246 --> 08:05.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two is to make the homeschooling. 08:05.287 --> 08:07.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Make this, but we're talking about homeschooling here. 08:08.128 --> 08:10.752 [SPEAKER_00]: And this can also apply to parenting and to motherhood. 08:11.193 --> 08:14.017 [SPEAKER_00]: But make homeschool, make it your job. 08:14.638 --> 08:16.541 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is not school at home. 08:16.881 --> 08:19.205 [SPEAKER_00]: This is home educating our children. 08:19.445 --> 08:21.889 [SPEAKER_00]: They're hearts and their minds and their bodies and all of those things. 08:22.630 --> 08:23.632 [SPEAKER_00]: But make it your job. 08:24.172 --> 08:25.373 [SPEAKER_00]: and give it your all. 08:25.914 --> 08:40.166 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you look back at the end and you say you know what I gave it my all I might not have gotten things right but I really pressed in to that role that God had given to me and what a blessing it was and I can say at the time that I did the best that I can. 08:40.907 --> 08:41.788 [SPEAKER_00]: can we always do a little better? 08:41.868 --> 08:42.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Possibly. 08:42.969 --> 08:48.754 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when I look at myself now at 50 and when I was homeschooling at 35 and 40, could I have done it better? 08:49.074 --> 08:56.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but I was doing the best that I could at 35 and at 40 and at 45 and then now at 50 as I finished up with my youngest. 08:56.960 --> 08:58.061 [SPEAKER_00]: But make it your job. 08:58.942 --> 08:59.482 [SPEAKER_00]: rebooks. 08:59.943 --> 09:09.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this podcast, other podcasts, talk to homeschool moms, get into some circles, have friends that are homeschoolers, just get into it. 09:10.307 --> 09:13.849 [SPEAKER_00]: This is your job, give it your all, and you will not regret that. 09:14.209 --> 09:20.312 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll look back and you'll say, I do not regret pouring myself into that and really becoming that role. 09:21.410 --> 09:29.433 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, do this instead of wasting your time looking for the easy button, be flexible and adjust as needed. 09:29.733 --> 09:33.054 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that kind of sounds like big and broad, but be flexible. 09:33.494 --> 09:35.515 [SPEAKER_00]: The day didn't start out as you thought it would. 09:35.715 --> 09:44.818 [SPEAKER_00]: And even now in the summer, you know, you have like, oh wait, we're going to go and do these, plant you've got like this park date playing with everybody and the baby wakes up sick. 09:45.499 --> 09:47.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Or kids are just having meltdowns. 09:49.912 --> 09:57.037 [SPEAKER_00]: attitude and the cooperation is not good in the morning and you're like, this is not going to get any better if we go to a splash pad. 09:58.078 --> 10:01.820 [SPEAKER_00]: And so being flexible, texting your friends and saying, I am really sorry. 10:01.840 --> 10:04.602 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we can make it today or we can't make it this morning. 10:05.002 --> 10:07.144 [SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe some kids need to like take some quiet time. 10:07.164 --> 10:09.646 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we can come as afternoon or would you all be able to do it tomorrow? 10:09.706 --> 10:12.628 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe they'll say, you know what, that may work better for us or yes or they might say. 10:13.388 --> 10:14.109 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do another day. 10:14.149 --> 10:16.212 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go anyway without you and you just say, you know what? 10:16.352 --> 10:16.933 [SPEAKER_00]: This is okay. 10:17.534 --> 10:19.697 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like, oh, this is my lot in life. 10:19.717 --> 10:20.437 [SPEAKER_00]: This is so terrible. 10:20.478 --> 10:21.960 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, no, this is my lot in life. 10:21.980 --> 10:23.381 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my lot right now today. 10:23.582 --> 10:24.162 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's okay. 10:25.104 --> 10:29.289 [SPEAKER_00]: Be flexible and adjust as needed when it comes to your homeschool. 10:30.497 --> 10:57.813 [SPEAKER_00]: the easier way in air quotes easier way is actually to adjust that curriculum that is just too hard and you can't quite figure it out or it is causing too much contention maybe to be a little bit more flexible we've talked about this maybe don't do all 50 problems of the math in that lesson you're like my kid why is it taking them 4 hours to do math I hear everybody else saying that you know this other tween routine it's only taking them 30 minutes why is it taking mine 4 because you're making them do all 50 problems 10:58.653 --> 10:59.534 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's what it is. 10:59.954 --> 11:01.274 [SPEAKER_00]: Be flexible, adjust. 11:01.374 --> 11:08.618 [SPEAKER_00]: There were times where, and I've talked about this, we did the lesson on one day, and then some problems related to that, and the next day was completely review. 11:08.698 --> 11:11.620 [SPEAKER_00]: There's even been times I've stretched out a lesson to three days. 11:12.360 --> 11:22.425 [SPEAKER_00]: We are looking for mastery over those topics instead, and mastery in our math, as opposed to just flying through it and coming to the end of it, and then being like, I really don't know what I did this 11:28.723 --> 11:29.563 [SPEAKER_00]: is to put in the time. 11:30.424 --> 11:35.125 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to encourage you just to put your head down, do the day in, and the day out. 11:35.846 --> 11:39.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Even when there appears to be zero payout. 11:40.867 --> 11:43.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Our culture looks for the easy way out of things. 11:43.728 --> 11:45.489 [SPEAKER_00]: How can we make something easier? 11:45.849 --> 11:50.391 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a controversial topic, opinion here. 11:51.453 --> 11:55.382 [SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to, again, I don't know your health, you can have a different opinion. 11:55.522 --> 11:59.791 [SPEAKER_00]: You can stop listening to me because you don't like my take on this, but this is my take. 12:00.987 --> 12:14.754 [SPEAKER_00]: After losing 35 pounds after putting on 30 pounds, and then losing 35 pounds, which has taken me three years to be able to get to that point, it has taken time because it has been slow and I have learned a lot through it. 12:15.314 --> 12:18.756 [SPEAKER_00]: I now understand what body recomposition is because I did a couple deficits. 12:18.776 --> 12:22.758 [SPEAKER_00]: There was no other way of getting a bunch of that fat off than to do that. 12:22.858 --> 12:25.099 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're looking for the easy way out. 12:25.639 --> 12:29.261 [SPEAKER_00]: We're looking for a pill, we're looking for an injection, we're looking for something. 12:29.721 --> 12:30.842 [SPEAKER_00]: And listen, that was me. 12:31.482 --> 12:34.884 [SPEAKER_00]: All of these things, I've tried many different things. 12:34.984 --> 12:39.347 [SPEAKER_00]: I've tried some beat Jews diet and all kinds of things, and it did not work. 12:40.320 --> 12:47.224 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to put my head down and day in and day out, I had to show up for myself, show up for myself in the workout. 12:47.344 --> 12:51.286 [SPEAKER_00]: I do resistance training, strength training, and walking. 12:51.747 --> 13:00.612 [SPEAKER_00]: And I had to show up for myself in confronting my gluttony and confronting what my body actually needs when it comes to diet and nutrition. 13:02.213 --> 13:07.659 [SPEAKER_00]: That comes who putting your head down and putting in the time and putting in the effort and the same thing with homeschool. 13:07.759 --> 13:20.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, if you don't like that example, that is just something that is forefront of my mind and there can be nuances and caveats and I understand that you can have those and you can keep that to keep that opinion to yourself and carry on with your life we could all be fine. 13:22.264 --> 13:25.707 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's just is doing the work day in and day out. 13:25.787 --> 13:26.447 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not pretty. 13:27.108 --> 13:28.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of it is not Instagram worthy. 13:29.349 --> 13:32.572 [SPEAKER_00]: You might go and look and there's this beautiful accounts and it's aesthetic and stuff. 13:32.612 --> 13:34.573 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're showing you a stage kind of thing. 13:35.074 --> 13:36.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Behind the scenes, it's just regular life. 13:36.995 --> 13:39.217 [SPEAKER_00]: Those moms hair are just kind of crazy in the morning. 13:39.277 --> 13:42.419 [SPEAKER_00]: They have, maybe they didn't get their teeth brushed and they're still in their pajamas. 13:43.040 --> 13:46.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And their kids are just doing the work and it can be tedious. 13:47.183 --> 13:49.845 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, you're like, I don't know if this is ever going to end. 13:50.505 --> 13:51.566 [SPEAKER_00]: It will end someday. 13:51.626 --> 13:53.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't wish it away is what I want to encourage you. 13:54.368 --> 13:57.610 [SPEAKER_00]: But you have to just put your head down, do the work, day in and day out. 13:57.650 --> 13:59.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you share on Instagram and share the aesthetics up. 13:59.572 --> 14:00.352 [SPEAKER_00]: That's absolutely fine. 14:00.453 --> 14:00.873 [SPEAKER_00]: Go for it. 14:01.153 --> 14:08.398 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's actually work that has to be done when it comes to home educating our kids and preparing them for their next season in life. 14:08.819 --> 14:10.140 [SPEAKER_00]: And you need to do this. 14:10.640 --> 14:13.041 [SPEAKER_00]: even when there appears to be zero payout. 14:13.701 --> 14:21.983 [SPEAKER_00]: As my kids got older and especially teen years and different personalities as well, would express more like, thanks mom for homeschooling. 14:22.043 --> 14:27.365 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so glad I don't get on the bus because I wasn't even up when the bus came driving through our neighborhood. 14:28.968 --> 14:35.391 [SPEAKER_00]: There may not be payouts in words, especially when your kids are younger, and you're just going to hear maybe possibly a lot of negativity to them. 14:35.691 --> 14:39.472 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not necessarily focusing on the positives, and so that's up to you. 14:39.592 --> 14:45.175 [SPEAKER_00]: They might be like, oh, the math, ooh, they don't like this, and all this, but then you could say, yes, I understand that. 14:46.386 --> 14:55.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, I gave you three hours in the afternoon to do your arts and your crafts or your reading or your building or whatever, like an turn and around. 14:55.949 --> 14:58.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Help them to then focus on the positive stuff. 14:58.189 --> 15:01.590 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you'll start to get some payouts, but there's many times there's no payouts. 15:01.670 --> 15:07.432 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember having newborn babies and until they would maybe start smiling around maybe six weeks or so. 15:08.092 --> 15:12.653 [SPEAKER_00]: It just felt, I remember that first, because it was the first time I had spent so much time with any baby. 15:12.773 --> 15:14.154 [SPEAKER_00]: And it just felt overwhelming. 15:14.194 --> 15:16.914 [SPEAKER_00]: My personality was much different than it is now. 15:17.114 --> 15:18.835 [SPEAKER_00]: I was not a very relaxed mom. 15:19.415 --> 15:22.896 [SPEAKER_00]: And when she started smiling at six weeks, I was like, okay, this is worth it. 15:23.476 --> 15:24.797 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a little bit of a payout. 15:24.817 --> 15:27.197 [SPEAKER_00]: But those first six weeks were really, really hard. 15:27.377 --> 15:30.758 [SPEAKER_00]: And it didn't mean that you stopped doing it because they're not smiling at you. 15:30.818 --> 15:31.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on now. 15:31.438 --> 15:33.819 [SPEAKER_00]: No, we still continue to take care of our newborns because we, 15:34.239 --> 15:37.861 [SPEAKER_00]: value their life, and we love them, and they're just a sweet innocent thing. 15:38.561 --> 15:49.647 [SPEAKER_00]: And so there appears to be zero payout, and they start smiling, and then they start cooing, and they start making noises, and really interacting with you, and you're like, this is so good, you might right now in your homeschool, be in that first six week still. 15:50.587 --> 15:57.891 [SPEAKER_00]: And it might not be six weeks, literally you might be six years in, so feel like you are in that first six weeks of just not really getting any payout. 15:57.951 --> 15:59.132 [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay, the payout will come. 15:59.552 --> 16:03.314 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the payout just comes in your own observation of your kids and saying, 16:04.715 --> 16:08.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at how well they're doing, look how well adjusted they are, look how socialized they are. 16:08.737 --> 16:16.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And just look at the way that you are able to possibly protect and shelter them from the world and they can really enjoy a childhood. 16:16.460 --> 16:22.422 [SPEAKER_00]: So those are my four things that I would say to do instead of looking for that staples easy button. 16:22.742 --> 16:28.985 [SPEAKER_00]: Before I close out, I want to remind you about rainbow resource and the incredible options that you have again. 16:29.105 --> 16:31.146 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about a homeschool curriculum, it is there. 16:31.666 --> 16:49.453 [SPEAKER_00]: their company really loves homeschool moms and really wants to see you succeed so I highly encourage you to not only get the great prices and all of the great options but also use their resources that are available to be able to help you to find the homeschool curriculum and get some answers and all those things. 16:49.873 --> 16:57.316 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get information at rainbowresource.com and again I am so thankful for rainbowresource and their sponsorship of little by little homeschool 17:01.718 --> 17:05.544 [SPEAKER_00]: get all those resources and all those links and everything it's going to be in the show notes for you. 17:05.944 --> 17:09.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a blessed day and thank you for joining me in today's episode.