485. Is There Room For Childhood In Your Homeschool?

We all intuitively know that it's important for children to grow up so fast and so young.

We've seen the videos online, the makeup routines for seven-year-olds, the pampering routines, the clothing hauls of children.

It just gives me the ick.

Honestly, it just kind of grosses me out.

I am not even a fan of when kids are consistently dressing like mini adults.

You go into stores and I'm like, okay, those shorts look just like the shorts for either like men or women.

And now it's cute.

I have no problem.

You want to dress like, you know, mommy and me and a cute dress and stuff.

That's fine.

But it just, I don't know.

It gives me the ick because I just feel like we are pushing our kids to just grow up so fast and so young.

And so I don't want that for your kids because I've seen the benefit.

just from my own childhood.

I've seen the benefit of my kids of just having space.

And I know that it's so easy to watch these videos and to watch kids and be like, oh, it's just so cute.

And to also sometimes, like I'm mentioning in the stores, it's hard to find the cute stuff that just makes a kid look like a kid.

But we can also very easily push childhood out.

I know those were kind of a little bit of an extreme examples there.

I don't think that probably my audience in general is not teaching their five, six, seven year old how to do a full face of makeup.

I mean, some of these I'm just like, wow, you've got a more extensive makeup routine and know more about makeup than I do.

And I'm 50 years old.

But we can very easily push childhood just out of the day in and day out and the homeschool when it isn't even that extreme.

And that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode.

Welcome to Little by Little Homeschool Podcast.

I am your host, Leigh Nguyen, and once again, blessed to have you here today.

Today is Monday, September 14th.

That means that just this week, this week, ah, I can't believe it, on Saturday is Little by Little Homeschool Conference.

I am really excited about it.

It's been such a labor of love behind the scenes.

I've been nerding out on the schedules and creating the programs and just the menus and all of the stuff.

But if you think about me, you think about me and my family, my volunteers, we would love any prayers.

Just prayers that everything comes together.

Pray for the women that are coming in attendance, that it's just a day to fill them up, that things go off without a hitch, that everybody shows up, that I need to show up as far as my volunteers, and that the weather is great, but no matter what happens, whether there are flukes, whether there are things that just don't go quite according to plan, we know that God is in it.

May he be glorified through all of it.

We just thank you so much for those prayers and let's dive into today's episode.