Bitcoin Homeschoolers

Bitcoiners Meredith and Shane are over a decade into their homeschooling journey.  In this conversation they share overing fears, embracing challenges, asking kids to teach others, homesteading, and many personal lessons.

• Homeschooling is a calling
• Meredith’s background as a schoolteacher
• Cost of childcare alone is ridiculous
• Preparing for a lifestyle of a single income without fear
• Men can only do such much, kids really need a mom
• Originally decided to take it year by year
• Now they’re homeschooling until the work is done
• Embracing challenges … Make adjustments as you go
• Hardest part starting out was researching how legally to do this
• Struggle and growth from over-planner to value-based teacher
• Combining homeschooling and homesteading
• Teaching more than traditional subjects, teaching life skills
• Have kids teach you!  Using Discord, baking bread, anything
• Kids learning to monetize 
• Chores and responsibilities, e.g., attending to chickens
• Learning (teaching) how to make money work instead of working for money
• Kids can learn things are earlier ages than you expect
• Genius is actually an extraordinarily common thing
• Contribution to society through our kids
• You do NOT need a schoolteacher background to homeschool
• The art and science of leveraging nap schedules
• Fail fast.  Learn from your mistakes.  You’re going to be alright.
• Kids have to have skin in the game
• How to answer kids ask “Do we have to go to college?”
• Check out dual enrollment opportunities
• Balancing free time and self-discipline
• Self-discipline over curriculum
• Value of letting kids teaching others what they know
• Don’t be afraid to follow your own path
• Read to kids every day
• Have fun with your kids and learn patience as fast as you can

• Meredith’s blog “Wait ‘Til Your Father Gets Home” http://www.waittilyourfathergetshome.com
• Shane’s email [email protected]
• Books:
• “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gato
• “Dumbing Us Down” by John Taylor Gato
• “Weapons of Mass Instruction” by John Taylor Gato

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games

We are essentially our own sponsors and are so grateful for all of you who support this show.  Thank you!

• Subscribe, like and share this podcast with others
• Visit our “Free Market Kids“ for products like the Bitcoin mining game, HODL UP  https://www.freemarketkids.com,
• Enjoy a 21% DISCOUNT on pre-sales of the 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition
• Check out Tali’s podcast by and for Bitcoin women, “Orange Hatter” https://www.orangehatter.com  
• Have fun with “Proof of Work Apparel” https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/proof-of-work-apparel

• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali’s “Quick Start” checklist  https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist

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Some parents who decide to homeschool face resistance from their families.  Today, Tali sits down with a lifelong public school supporter turned homeschooling advocate.

• There’s been A LOT of negative changes in public schools and these changes started decades earlier
• Average kids can be left behind in public schools
• Initial reaction (“Oh my God”) and other concerns about homeschooling from a different generational point of view
• Surprising exhibit of self-confidence and self-assurance with very young homeschooled kids
• Homeschooled kids move at their own respective speeds
• Homeschooled kids show maturity, e.g., the way they speak, the way they handle themselves in crowds, speaking in front of large audiences
• Parents have to be involved with their children – you don’t know what they’re doing in public schools
• Absorbing lessons is more important than passing tests
• Deterioration of discipline in public schools
• Deterioration of manners in public schools, e.g., respecting elders
• The reality of “you can have it all” for mothers and fathers
• Parents need to be aligned in homeschool mission to make it work
• Homeschooling kids talk to their families and share personal experiences with their families even in their late teenage years
• Public schools now have sexually explicit books in their libraries
• Homeschooling is a major commitment but one should pursue it without hesitation

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games

We are essentially our own sponsors and are so grateful for all of you who support this show.  Thank you!

• Subscribe, like and share this podcast with others
• Visit our “Free Market Kids“ for products like the Bitcoin mining game, HODL UP  https://www.freemarketkids.com,
• Enjoy a 21% DISCOUNT on pre-sales of the 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition
• Check out Tali’s podcast by and for Bitcoin women, “Orange Hatter” https://www.orangehatter.com  
• Have fun with “Proof of Work Apparel” https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/proof-of-work-apparel

• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali’s “Quick Start” checklist  https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist

Homeschooling is a commitment.  You are investing your precious time and attention for the long-term success and happiness of your children.  In this conversation, Tali and Scott deep dive the common fear of being overwhelmed.

• A common question from those considering homeschooling is how to not lose yourself
• Homeschooling is not as hard as you might think
• It’s okay if spouses don’t agree on all aspects (feature not a bug)
• You have a lot of options, each with varying impacts on time for yourself
• Just start … then adjust.  It’s a process you continually tweak.
• You don’t need to have plan for entire K-12 experience.  Planning out a month or two in advance is fine.
• Part-time private schools are one option
• Co-ops offer additional benefit, the opportunity to share your passions
• Extended family plans
• Homeschooling play groups and field trips
• Every homeschooling mom, no matter how devoted needs time to herself to recoup and regenerate
• There are so many resources:  Mom’s groups, churches, online curriculum, etc.
• Finding homeschooling groups and play groups in your area
• Always do a tour before committing to a program
• Consider attending homeschooling conventions
• Homeschoolers are very much like Bitcoiners.  They're very, very friendly, open, and more than happy to share experience.
• Stay flexible and know that it's going to be okay. Take one step at a time.

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games

We are essentially our own sponsors and are so grateful for all of you who support this show.  Thank you!

• Subscribe, like and share this podcast with others
• Visit our “Free Market Kids“ for products like the Bitcoin mining game, HODL UP  https://www.freemarketkids.com,
• Enjoy a 21% DISCOUNT on pre-sales of the 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition
• Check out Tali’s podcast by and for Bitcoin women, “Orange Hatter” https://www.orangehatter.com  
• Have fun with “Proof of Work Apparel” https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/proof-of-work-apparel

• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali’s “Quick Start” checklist  https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist

Homeschoolers align on principle of freedom but vary on approaches to schooling.  In this conversation we hear from experienced homeschoolers and bitcoiners, Elly and Asher, and their lessons learned hosting a homeschooling panel at TABConf.

• Elly and Asher’s path to Bitcoin and homeschooling
• Taking initiative by organizing NextGen Village at TABConf
• Why a homeschooling panel at a technical conference
• Homeschoolers align on principle of freedom but vary on approaches to schooling
• Homeschoolers agree on keeping children out of public system and that doing so gives them advantages and opportunities
• What homeschooling actually looks like varies greatly from family to family  
• The 3D mempool puzzle as a teaching tool for the non-technical
• There are so many resources.  Be creative.
• Bring your families to conferences like TABConf

• 3D mempool puzzle  https://www.instagram.com/pembrokecreativellc/
• Elly’s twitter  @EllyPembroke
• Asher’s twitter  @asherp
• Github next gen village  https://github.com/TABConf/2023.tabconf.com/issues/177
• TABConf YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@tabconf/featured  (Note, videos from TABConf 2023 are still being edited at the time of this show.  The specific session Elly referenced may not be published yet.)
• TABConf website  https://2023.tabconf.com

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games

We are essentially our own sponsors and are so grateful for all of you who support this show.  Thank you!

• Subscribe, like and share this podcast with others
• Visit our “Free Market Kids“ for products like the Bitcoin mining game, HODL UP  https://www.freemarketkids.com,
• Enjoy a 21% DISCOUNT on pre-sales of the 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition
• Check out Tali’s podcast by and for Bitcoin women, “Orange Hatter” https://www.orangehatter.com  
• Have fun with “Proof of Work Apparel” https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/proof-of-work-apparel

• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali’s “Quick Start” checklist  https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist

By not controlling everything for kids, and by not protecting them too much, kids better learn how to live in this world.  In this conversation, Tali and Scott go deep on how allowing kids to be in physically free environments helps more than intellectual and physical development.  

• A feature of taking self-custody of education is being in control of the agenda and the environment
• Separating parents from kids enhances the state’s control over the population
• Public schools focus on and reward conformity
• The unique approach of a Japanese kindergarten (see TED Talk link in the resources section)
• Staying physical healthy is part of a low-time-preference life
• “Don’t control them too much”
• “Kids need small doses of danger”
• “Kids need noise”
• You have SO MANY resources within this community … Commitment is the first step
• Help make this show more valuable … What do you want to learn about homeschooling?

• TED Talk “Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen”  https://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games

We are essentially our own sponsors and are so grateful for all of you who support this show.  Thank you!

• Subscribe, like and share this podcast with others
• Visit our “Free Market Kids“ for products like the Bitcoin mining game, HODL UP  https://www.freemarketkids.com,
• Enjoy a 21% DISCOUNT on pre-sales of the 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition
• Check out Tali’s podcast by and for Bitcoin women, “Orange Hatter” https://www.orangehatter.com  
• Have fun with “Proof of Work Apparel” https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/proof-of-work-apparel

• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali’s “Quick Start” checklist  https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist

Tali and Scott's conversation covers why homeschooling isn't just a choice of curriculum or textbooks. Taking self-custody of education is a commitment to understanding, nurturing, and building relationships that last a lifetime.

• Tali and Scott's inspiration for homeschooling
• Their inspiration for serving the Bitcoin community with lessons learned, recommended resources and interviews of other Bitcoin-homeschoolers (i.e., the reason for this podcast)
• Learning goes way beyond books
• Asymmetric upside potential for your kids (let them excel!)
• Limited downside risk (kids are resilient)
• You have SO MANY resources within this community
• Commitment is the first step
• Help make this more valuable ... What do you want to learn about homeschooling?

• Tali's "I want to homeschool" quick start resources https://www.freemarketkids.com/blogs/i-want-to-start-homeschooling/i-want-to-start-homeschooling-quick-start-checklist
• Citadel Dispatch 84: Homeschooling and Bitcoin Games with Scott, Tali and P. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citadeldispatch/episodes/CD84-Home-Schooling-and-Bitcoin-Games-with-Scott--Tali--and-P-e1t6sqc/a-a955pju
• Article "Homeschoolers Are Bitcoiners Who Don't Know It Yet" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/parallels-between-homeschool-and-bitcoin
• Tali's Bitcoin podcast for busy women https://www.orangehatter.com/
• 21% discount on pre-sale of 2024 Halving Collectors edition of HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/products/hodl-up-2024-halving-event-commemorative-edition

• Tali's Twitter @OrangeHatterPod
• Scott's Twitter @ScottLindberg93
• Scott's nostr npub19jkuyl0wgrj8kccqzh2vnseeql9v98ptrx407ca9qjsrr4x5j9tsnxx0q6
• Free Market Kids' Twitter @FreeMarketKids
• Orange Pill App @FreeMarketKids
• Free Market Kids' games including HODL UP https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games