simone biles justin timberlake tim tebow
taylor swift ryan gosling c.s lewis thomas edison alexander graham bell bethany hamilton
blake griffin condoleezza rice what do all these people have in common they were all
homeschooled in this video we're sharing our why and goals for homeschooling our children
hey guys it's amber and jared here from holy city family thank you so much for joining us
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take a look at some homeschool stats according to the u.s census bureau household pulse survey
since 2012 3.3 percent of the population was homeschooled but in the spring of 2019 5.4
of households were homeschooled in the fall of 2020 that number doubled to 11.1 percent
and in the spring of 2021 that number doubled again to 19.5 me before we go into our why we
want to share that we understand that everyone has their own reasons for their schooling choices and
these are our families reasons for homeschooling right um so the first why flexibility we have
the ability to tailor our children's education to their specific learning styles their interest and
their pace we can build their faith in their character it gives us opportunities for spirit
showing character development academic and social and family time and we can offer opportunities to
our kids that can that they can really learn about the world about the the people that need help the
orphans the persecuted and as a family we can try to make a difference in our own community and our
in our world beyond that for us a big one is like cherishing time homeschooling allows us to focus
on the pressure precious time that we have we know that it goes really quickly so it helps us
not rush through that special commodity that we have as as parents a confession of homeschoolers
she she shared an interesting thought if the average person lives let's say 85 years
they the 18 years our kids spend with us is less than a fourth of their lives and
for us i agree with her i don't want to look back and think i didn't spend enough time with them
um and she was saying like three hours a day is not enough for us and
i honestly kind of agree with that you might think we're crazy but like that's just
that's just us so another why of ours is flexible curriculum academically homeschoolers typically
rate 37 percentage points higher than public school students with our children being at
home more often we can make sure the curriculum and our teaching fits their needs we can protect
them from negative influences we can protect their innocence just a little bit longer we can create
memories so meaningful memories with our family and we can experience life together more often
real life experiences so this helps helps teach them to become responsible empathetic and capable
adults we have a few goals for our home school the question that i kind of ask myself what do
we want our children to look like when they finish their formal education so of course we
want them first to be successful in life we want them to be the greatest version of themselves
we want to train them in the way that they should go we want them to be healthy and
confident and know that they are beautifully and wonderfully made that they are special
and we want them to keep that childlike faith we want them to be a light to this world and finally
we want them to be confident have good manners be compassionate individuals and be respectful
and and humble in their spirit yeah currently just so you guys know we've been doing preschool
homeschool with our four-year-old for the past one and a half two years we've actually been using
busy toddlers playing preschool curriculum as our main resource and we've incorporated pieces from
gentle and classical as well as the five girl home school and some other pieces here and there
but i really like to focus on the play with my kids i can see that while they're inside but
they love to be outside and like today digging in the mud we look forward to actually sharing
more of our research leading up to kindergarten next year and sharing the curriculums that we
choose to go with our main focus is charlotte mason nature and a christian inspired curriculum
but just so you guys know you need to make sure that you check your state's requirements for
choosing home school for choosing to home school they're all kind of different so make sure that
you check that first before you dive into more research anthony j d'angelo said develop a passion
for learning and if you do you will never cease to grow we want our children to chase dreams not test
scores we want to give chil give our children the best opportunity to learn and grow into amazing
human beings we know this is not the easiest path but in the end we know that it's worth it we can't
wait to look back one year and one day and see all the memories that we created together through this
learning experience so if you've been home or you have homeschooled or you're homeschooling now we'd
love to hear any tips from you or just any advice that you want to share with us or our followers so
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