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- Bonus Replay: #1 Reason We Would Homeschool Today
We used to get asked a lot WHY we homeschooled…like all the time….twenty years ago or more.
Nowadays, reasons for homeschooling are as diverse as the number of people homeschooling. There are not just a handful of reasons any more—and many of the reasons (especially the fear-based ones) are not as prevalent as they were. (Not sure if this is all good….we need to fear some things for our kids.)
After thirty-two years of homeschooling (and being done for two years now—well, done with our own kids, but not the 170 kids in our classes and part time programs!), we have narrowed it down to one big reason—with lots of sub reasons.
Truly, TIME is the biggest reason that I would homeschool if I had it to do all over again—and is something I would like for you to at least consider in your decision to homeschool or not, go to school or stay home, continue on or end. Because TIME is big—and can never be redeemed.
Blessings to you and your family on your journey! Enjoy every moment you have!
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I. Starting Out
A. Chose homeschooling out of fear of all of the “bad” stuff
1. Bad peers
2. Bad curriculum (secular)
3. Bad environment
B. “Pioneers” 1
. We were afraid of everything (unfortunately)
2. Very Bible-driven and character-focused (fortunately)
II. Middle Years
A. As older kids entered high school
1. Moving away from fear a little and more into reality (these kids need occupations!)
2. Focused in on academics while still keeping a character-basis and a relationship style of parenting
B. Began writing curriculum and testing it with homeschooled kids
III. Ending Years
A. Relationships with adult kids and kids still in school
1. Realized more and more it was the time we have had together
2. Adult kids still needed the time
B. Watched siblings as many as ten and twelve years apart develop close relationships
IV. The NUMBER ONE Benefit of Homeschooling—Time
A. Time cannot be duplicated, redeemed, or reallocated
1. Average American mom spends 13.5 hours a week with her child; average homeschooling mom spends 77 hours a week with her child
2. My own quick math
a. 8 hours a day x 180 days
b. Yields 1440 more hours per year that kids who are homeschooled are with their parents/siblings
c. Probably between 1500 and 2000 per year with 9 hour days, bus rides, before and after school activities, etc.
3. Any way you slice it, it is too much time to try to “make up for” on weekends or holidays or summers. The sheer number of hours is staggering.
a. At 1500 hours a year x 13 years
b. Nearly 20,000 hours
B. Time that kids are with parents
1. Who is going to shape your child during those 20,000 hours?
2. Do we want it to be teachers and peers or us?
C. Time to lean in to their strengths and weaknesses
1. Academically
2. Becoming who they will become
3. Emotional support
D. Time with siblings
1. Who are your best friends here?
2. Who matters more than anyone else here?
E. Time equals influence
1. “You will become the five people you spend your time with”
2. Kids change according to who they are with and what expectations and allowances are made
3. Time influence is the time of the people who ARE influencing your kids (you) and time that peers are NOT influencing your kids.
F. The thing we put our time into is what grows
1. Do we want the home to be the center of your child’s world or the school?
2. If our kids go to school, we SHOULD put the effort and time into that school due to the number of hours are kids spend there (don’t send them then complain about everything!)
3. Make your home the center of your family, not the school
V. Summary
A. Do I think all is lost if kids go to school?
1. No!
2. But it takes supernatural effort and work
B. Co-ops, half day programs, Friday School, private tutors, even babysitters overseeing some work can all make it happen more easily
1. Homeschooling doesn’t have to mean you do all the teaching
2. It doesn’t have to mean that you love to teach
3. It just means that you are going to do everything in your power to have as many of those 20,000 hours/ 2500 days be with you rather than away from home for their thirteen years of school.
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24 min - #11: Introducing Year 2 of Homeschooling (1984)
Done Homeschooling Younger Sister
- Lisa went to and thrived in 9th grade—our year had been a success
- Joshua (2nd bday) and I spent our days learning, helping others, and learning how to manage a busy home (lots of people in and out!)
- Wrote preschool curriculum for Joshua
Helping Others With Homeschooling
- Most local Indiana families were in Christian schools or had moved
- Had half dozen families (most in Ohio or out of our county) umbrella teacher (advantages & disadvantages)
- Continued presentations whenever asked
Our Days
- Structure
- Play dates
- Organizing
- Working in church children’s ministry
- Field trips, park days etc
- First (of 6!) Levi Coffin field trips!
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14 min - #10: First Homeschool Year in Review
Episode 10! Ready to wrap up our first year of homeschooling with the good and the bad!
Good
- Learned to systematize
- Implemented dailies
- Learned so much about teaching and homeschooling
- Lisa was ready to go back to school in the fall—especially socially
- Glimmer of hope for the self-less marriage we desired
Bad
- It was hard work
- Had the beginning of “homeschool pride”—not the good kind!
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15 min - #9: Week in the Life...1983 (Part II of II)
Week in the life of….1983..our first year of homeschooling. Part II of II
1. Social Anxiety
2. Fear of people, running into store, bullied at school, low self esteem, anxiety
3. Played clarinet in little church band
4. Helped with small group—and blossomed in this environment
5. Great success socially helping with nursing home services and visitation
6. Exercise at Y; art classes
7.. 2. Indiana law 180 days of equivalent instruction
8. Counted school days (she seldom missed)
9. Counted field trips
10. 3. End of year academic results—tested by her school again
11. Math—from 2nd grade level to 4th grade level
12. Reading—from 2nd grade level to 6th grade level (even though her capacity wasn’t supposed to go that high!)
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14 min - #8: Week in the life of….1983 (Part I of II)Week in the life of….1983..our first year of homeschooling.
- Typical morning
- Lisa dropped off 7:00 on my mom’s way to work
- Independent list until I was ready
- Joshua 12-18 months old…get up, rock, sing, read posters on his wall
- Once Joshua was ready for day/fed, I checked Lisa’s work so far and taught her reading and math
- She had joined little church band, so she had several independent activities on her list: Cleaning job, practice clarinet, silent reading, math drill, read to Joshua, misc assigned from our reading and math lessons, biography reading, geography workbook…
2. Typical afternoon- I read history and science with her
- We also baked, cooked, organized, and played with Joshua throughout the day
- Most days were similar
- Saved some intense lessons for when Joshua napped
- She was picked up at 3:30 when Mom got off work unless it was art class or Y night or mid-week service
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16 min - #7: When we knew we wanted a character-based homeschool
(1.) Within a few months of homeschooling Lisa, we went to a character training seminar held at a local church/Christian school
- This was taught by Ron and Rebekah Coriele almost forty years ago.
- Mrs. Coriel told a story about the oldest daughter who told her friend she couldn’t be dishonest because…” my mom won’t see, but God will”
- We knew that his character-filled lifestyle was what we wanted for our family.
(2) We began immediately.
- Nursing home ministry
- Explaining everything
- Character teaching
- Scheduling
- Deference
- Diligence
- Following instructions
(3) Our approach did have some downfalls that would later take us years to figure out and fix.
- Everything was black and white (which is good in parenting but not a great world view when trying to teach empathy etc ). We were choosy in who we should serve—and gave a negative impression to our kids about people who didn’t agree with us.
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15 min - #6: What have dailies looked like over the past 40 years?
(1) My history of discovering Dailies.
(2) If I can’t keep up with the dailies, how will I do harder and harder things with homeschooling and home management as our family grows?
(3) Early on with Joshua as a toddler—Dishes, Laundry, and Trash every day before anything else.
(3) Dailies grew as our family grew.
- Morning routines for kids for personal dailies
- House Dailies—everybody’s daily chores
- My personal Dailies
- Evening Dailies
(4) Peak of our homeschooling with several students
- Dailies—dishes, laundry, trash woven into daily chore sessions
- Youngest child who could do the job did it!
(5) Today—two empty nesters with 100+ students coming in and out every day and 24 family members (10 little ones!) in and out
- We both have our Dailies for the house
- I have my personal Dailies in the morning and evening
- Still living the “Dailies” life!
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Happy February, !
This week’s episode of “Our Homeschool History” is more about those “Dailies”—specifically what Dailies looked like for us over the past forty years!
1) My history of discovering Dailies.
(2) If I can’t keep up with the dailies, how will I do harder and harder things with homeschooling and home management as our family grows?
(3) Early on with Joshua as a toddler—Dishes, Laundry, and Trash every day before anything else.
(3) Dailies grew as our family grew.
- Morning routines for kids for personal dailies
- House Dailies—everybody’s daily chores
- My personal Dailies
- Evening Dailies
(4) Peak of our homeschooling with several students
- Dailies—dishes, laundry, trash woven into daily chore sessions
- Youngest child who could do the job did it!
(5) Today—two empty nesters with 100+ students coming in and out every day and 24 family members (10 little ones!) in and out
- We both have our Dailies for the house
- I have my personal Dailies in the morning and evening
- Still living the “Dailies” life!
I want so many great things for you and your students!
Love and hope
Donna
aka language arts lady
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15 min - #5: My organization Insanity comes to a head—and I start learning about Dailies
Come along with me on my journey to share Our Homeschool History.
Here are some of the things I share in this episode:
1) Always a big thinker/doer—huge responsibilities when 12; taking on big projects on student council; projects in teachers college were my delight (as long as they didn’t take art skills or laminating!); homemaker—endless projects!
2) First year of homeschooling eighth-grade sister; Joshua was one
3) Ray came home and took him by hand to show him projects (laminated shelf labels that I had colored out of coloring books, animals divided by jungle, farm, aquatic, etc, closets, and drawer, etc)
4) Elaborate systems—laminated and contact paper boxes, put stickers on the baby wipe containers people gave me, so much detail that neither I nor anyone else could keep it up.
5) Dishes, laundry, undressed toddler, etc all undone —Ray always rescued me as he affectionately called me a “closet lady”!
6) Read sidetracked home executive—divided into dailies, weeklies, etc
7) Learned about the dailies!!! These would come to make a significant impact on our homeschool and my mental health (!) in years to come
8) Dailies—the things you do habitually each day—before other “extra” things
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11 min - #4: Homeschooling With a Toddler in Tow—38 Years AgoWelcome to Episode #4 of Our Homeschool History. I love this episode so much as I dig into one of my favorite topics—-littles! Oh, how I love the littles!Here is the scoop of today's episode:
- How we knew that homeschooling would become our life
- How we learned early on that the secret to success with homeschooling lies in developing systems and structures
- How I designed my toddler’s day for learning, play, rest, character formation, and fun!
- How I used time well to teach my sister while also meeting our toddler’s needs.
- How we focused on creating a love for learning from babyhood
- Baby chores
- Much more!
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13 min - #3: Homeschooling My Younger Sister!
Welcome to Episode #3 of Our Homeschool History.
This episode delves more deeply into our first year of homeschooling—when I was twenty years old; was married for a year and a half; had a one-year-old toddler; had just graduated from Ball State University with an elementary education degree; and more:- My young age of beginning homeschooling as a twenty-year-old teaching my eighth grade sister
- How I was thrusted into homeschool leadership as a twenty-year-old---teacher/covering for Ohio homeschoolers; vendor at the first Indiana homeschool convention; taught others about homeschooling
- The summer I read ten homeschool books, and we began going to homeschool conventions and seminars
- Meeting Dr. Raymond Moore, the founder of Christian homeschooling
- Using one of the first curricula available early on—Home Grown Kids by Dr. Raymond Moore
- A tailored curriculum to Lisa’s level in each subject
- Back to the basics
- Reading a few times a day: silent reading at her silent reading level; oral reading at her learning level; read aloud by me at her listening level
- Focusing on taking her out of her comfort zone to help her become more social, self-
assured, etc.- Super successful year in which she went from second grade reading level to sixth grade reading level
I have so much to share with you about our thirty-two years of homeschooling!
I want so many great things for you and your students!
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About Our Homeschool History
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Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a homeschool “pioneer” nearly forty years ago? Have you ever scratched your head and marveled at how someone could homeschool for three or more decades? Do you ever wish you had an older mama to tell you all the things she did right, wrong, or in between?
Then look no more! You have found all of that in Donna Reish’s (aka language arts lady’s) “Our Homeschool History.” A chronological look in ten-minute, bite-sized audios (and videos at YouTube/Instagram) of what our family learned and did during our thirty-two years of homeschooling and home growing our seven children.
https://www.languageartsladyblog.com/ourhomeschoolhistory
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