Hooked On Homeschool

04 | Redefining Education: Amber's Inspiring Homeschooling Journey with Her Three Amazing Kids


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Homeschooling can be a rewarding experience for families, allowing them to be more active in their children's education and development. With dedication and perseverance, homeschooling can be a fulfilling journey for families.

In this episode, I am joined by Amber, she is an amazing homeschool mom of 3 kids, she has been homeschooling for 4 years, and is also known as the field trip queen! She will shed light on what prompted her to homeschool, her biggest struggles when she started and how she overcame finding the right curriculum. She discusses different learning styles and how that is her biggest struggle.  She gives advice on homeschooling multiple children, instilling values in her children and her husband’s thoughts about homeschooling. Amber also discusses how they had to go from a two-income to a one income household to homeschool. She gives talks about her typical day as a homeschool mom what she would do differently if she were to go back in time.

Timestamps

[02:00] What prompted Amber to homeschool

[03:29] Amber’s biggest struggles when she started 

[04:38] How Amber overcame finding the right curriculum

[05:33] Kinesthetic learning Vs. Audio and Visual learning

[07:18] Amber’s biggest struggle 

[08:03] Advice to moms homeschooling multiple children

[08:26] Values to instill in children when homeschooling

[09:45] Amber’s inspirational quote 

[10:40] Who is Amber?

[11:46] Her husbands thoughts about homeschooling

[12:41] Advice to people dependent on two incomes

[14:08] After-school activities

[16:26] Typical day for Amber

[18:41] What to do after lunch

[20:39] How Amber manages sanity

[21:45] Social Media and the family

[23:07] What Amber wants for her kids after graduating highschool

[24:11] What Amber would do differently

[24:56] Amber’s curriculum

[25:30] Tips for those wishing to homeschool

Notable Quotes
  • (03:53) “Picking the right curriculum can be extremely a daunting task”
  • (06:53) “Homeschooling can really be beneficial for both the kinesthetic, audio and visual learner”
  • (13:41) “Life is short, give it a go, you can always go back to work if it doesn’t work out”
  • (20:55) “whatever you are going through is temporary and sometimes you just need to change your scenery a little bit and it will all kind of fall back together”
  • (23:57) “You do not have to be taught to learn, kids will learn just from seeing and doing”
  • (25:53) “You will never look back on your years home schooling and think that you spent too much time with your kids, but you will look back and regret the time you did not spend with them”
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