I recently had to start working again. Super thankful that I can still homeschool. I think a huge part that people don't realize is that elementary doesn't require much. We're done within a couple hours and then the kids can go play outside 🥰

We are unschoolers so we have a different foundation and paradigm, but I honour how much intention you are bringing into your family life!

My daughter and son in law never thought about home schooling but recently they are leaning more towards doing it! Like you it’s so important for them to bring their children up with a biblical world view!

Great Q&A Kayla! I love to hear your thoughts on homeschooling and how you’re going about it. I’ve been homeschooling my girls for the past 3 years. 💛

We're discussing homeschooling too! I wasn't expecting to be a SAHM but was surprised to find that's what I wanted once he was born. And we started working on educational stuff after he started getting excited about showing me what he learned from his educational kid shows (little baby bum and cocomelon got us started but there's a lot of them and he watches them all). So we started with flashcards that had touch snd feel textures on them, and pointing and naming colors as we walk through the house and grocery store. Then he wanted to count steps going up and down the staircase. And then he started learning his letters and we started putting him in his high chair and working with alphabet puzzles and scrabble tiles and matching the letters to the first sound of the flashcards he was currently working on. Then he went through a massive puzzle phase where we did puzzles of different difficulty levels ALL DAY. We've always read books to him, and he loves being read to now, and we talk about the things in the pictures as we read through things. We started workbook pages a few weeks ago and he did great. We've also worked on naming everything, 3 syllable words, music stuff, different kinds of intentional physical movements like walking backwards and jump high 5s snd running and jumping over pool noodles and ducking under it. We have plans to work on cooking and making letters out of playdough soon. We're currently working on tracing upper and lowercase letters on our alphabet book pages and number counting books, because he's not interested in using a marker or crayon to write with yet, so he's practicing without them. He knows probably 50 or 60 animals by name now, can count to 20, count backwards from 10, all the letters and their sounds, the names of so many kinds of vehicles, all his colors, all his shapes. He recently realized the doors in our home has squares and rectangles on them and wants to shoe them to me every day. Several times. He just learned what a peephole in a door is and was beyond excited. He's 3.5 right now, and we started intentionally capitalizing on things he showed interest in at 2.5. And it's been so amazing to watch the growth and just go with where his interest is at that time. I was never home schooled, and I was in college before I thought learning was fun. And I am in love with the goal of teaching him learning is supposed to be fun and interesting and gratifying. And we were really disappointed in how schools around our area handled covid, which is what gave us the idea of intentionally homeschooling. We're not fully decided yet, but it's now an exciting option to talk about instead of a weird, scary, foreign concept. And I'm fully enjoying and loving your videos lately on what you're doing with yours!

Not interested in home schooling or religious schooling at all but still so fascinating to hear you talk about it ☺️ So cool how you can customise things for your child

U are so blessed 🤗 i love home schooling like you ..😘 and i realy loved this video!!!

back when my kids were in school, we were living in a smaller city in Canada. it was a relatively safe time, no gangs, safe to drive around town once they had their license, high school was smaller than the elementary school- numbers wise- this was the late 80s, 90's and up to 2003.....different world then.................

Thanks for sharing this video, I love your videos, I am soo clear on homeschooling. I was wondering when I should start homeschooling for my 22 month old & loved the part where you said let kids be kids, I am not planning on homeschooling but the current situation right now makes me feel that for now I want to homeschool her for my peace of mind.

Absolutely love the informational vlog, i would like to get the curriculum in a couple months. Im FT working but i like to spend time with my toddler in evenings and weekends. You are doing great, thanks for the inspiration ❤️🧸🎈

We are on the same boat, Catholic, new to homeschooling etc.. My daughter is Riley’s age and we used the Good and the Beautiful curriculum since she was about 3.5. She is now almost done with their Math K and LA K. We both have loved it and I couldn’t say enough good things about it. Idk how it happened but she’s not even 5 yet and can read very many words, so it definitely works!

Not my son seeing the Jackson storm car on the screen and freaking out because he thinks it’s his and he wants it 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I just started the good and the beautiful math (kindergarten) with my 5 year old. I really like how it’s simple to follow and the lessons are short. I downloaded it free and printed it, but chose to put the pages in page protectors so she can use a dry erase marker. This way I can reuse the curriculum with my 2 year old son someday. That made me feel better about the cost of printing 100’s of pages 😀 We’ve been loving the curriculum so far and I’m planning to use their free LA curriculum too!

What do you mean by "the state of the world"?

Hi how did you find out about the treehouse website? Thank you

Such good info! I’m catholic myself do you have any catholic resources for homeschooling? I really want to homeschool, I don’t know if I’m being selfish because I don’t want my kids to be bullied.

My daughters just started private Christian school and it’s the best thing we ever did as a family. Having a biblical world view I’m todays day and age is fundamental and non negotiable so seeing this is so reassuring!

My brother did high school at Young Musicians of Virginia! It’s for homeschooled kids to learn those harder subjects. They just have to play an instrument! My brother was in the praise band 😄😄 I was still in middle school and went to public school for high school so I didn’t go but he liked it! They start before high school, my mom was just still teaching me!

Hi Kayla I saw your butterfly contraption in a movie called touch by Grace

I admire you! My friend that lives in NY does home schooling and its such a hard work! If I lived in US I would 100% confider it, but living in England that is save and especially small town, I cant wait for both of my kids go full time preschool haha My son is 2.5 and he does 3 days 3h with 3 days 6.5h from Sep and my daughter turns two in April and will join him for 9h as well ;) Well done girl! Like you said homeschool is not for everyone so feel proud and ignore big headed lazy commenters haha

Where I live, basically no one homeschools their children, usually both parents go to work. And I have to say we don't even think that teaching 4 y o is home schooling because kids go to school at 7 and before that they go to day care/kindergarten. But it's interesting to see diferent systems in diferent countries :)

My daughter is going to be 3 in 2 months and I read to her at night, but shes always jumping around and playing and half of the time. She doesn’t sit still much so we can read. Are there any tips for that?

I love this type of content I have a 2 year old ! We are starting to notice he doesn’t say full on sentences he does know tons of words like over 150 but do you have any advice on helping him ?

Good morning! 😍

Hi Kayla, I'm wondering if you've actually visited an actual kindergarten or class with Riley? I think some of the conceptions you have about school are a bit off and maybe based on your memories of higher grades? We've visited several schools the last few months and I was very impressed with what the teachers plan for the kids. There is lots of playtime, time for movement, outside activities and they definitely take into account what your kid is struggling with or is already good at. Of course, I respect your decision to homeschool, but I'm thinking maybe actually visit a school before judging the system?

My boy tommy is going to be going to school for kindergarten August 3rd he will be going to a public/ charter school do they have public/ charter schools there Kayla . You do a great job homeschooling your kids. I do learning time with tommy everyday for a little bit. He's excited to be going to school soon . It's 8 am to3:15 pm Monday thru Friday

I don't think home schooling lesson s will ever need more than 1/2 day- at least up to high school- a lot that's at school is filler to get the 5 hours.....homeschooling allows for more out of home activities, and doesn't result with your child being exhausted...............

I am going to homeschool my kids and I put them in extra curriculum classes at our local park. He gets the best of both worlds

No, Riley would not be sitting at a desk all day at public/private school. Common misconception.