30. So You're Thinking About Homeschooling...

Number one thing, if you're considering homeschooling, talk to people who homeschool.

I know that might sound really basic and you might feel like you don't know anyone, but here's the thing about homeschool people.

They are so helpful and so passionate about homeschool that 99% of them, if you reach out and you're like, hey, I live in your neighborhood.

I know we don't know each other very well, but I saw you post one time that your kids homeschooled.

could I come ask you some questions about that? We're considering doing it.

I promise you there is a 99% chance that that person is going to be very excited and very willing to help out and answer your questions and let you come look at.

I went and sat in so many homes and just asked questions.

I literally had this little journal I would take I would pull it out with my pen and I would ask, you know, what does a typical week or day look like for your family? Do you take any classes? What curriculum do you use? What do you like about it? What do you not like about it? What's the best thing about homeschool? What's the worst thing? I was just picking their brains.

There were some people that going into the conversation, I knew that I could learn a lot from them and at the same time that my homeschool would probably be pretty different from theirs just because of... personality differences or whatever.

And then there were some people, some of our friends, I really want to get on the podcast, but they're so humble that I know it's going to be really hard to get them on here.

But I literally, they were kind of newer friends of ours.

And I went to them and I was like, hey, here's the deal.

You guys are really cool, really normal people and you homeschool.

So tell me about that.

Because all I knew, since I didn't grow up in homeschool, all I knew was the extreme stereotype, which I will say, I will say, growing up in the 90s, There were a ton of homeschoolers.

And so it was a lot more of an extreme culture, I think.

Now, I know people who homeschooled in the 90s who are amazing.

And I want to be like them when I grow up.

So it's not like everyone.

But I just remember being like, OK, it's not just people who want a homestead because you guys like.

The husband and the wife both worked.

They were both involved in their church.

Their kids were really great kids.

Our kids are still close to this day.

They're still really good friends of ours.