Also, thank you for the school ID idea! My kids will love that

Hi, can you tell me where you found the All Aboit Me backpack print out?

I like the theme!

Just came across your channel recently and love it. Not many secular homeschoolers out there. Completed my first year of homeschooling in June. Love a lot of your ideas and will use some to do a better job homeschooling next year. I will have a 9 year old going into 4th grade as well and a 1st grader. Thank you!!

your themes are always so fun! My 7yr old really likes rock climbing. I will have to look in to getting her the How to Solve a Problem book.

Hello from another Cara from Ohio. I would like to use the Gallopede - I sent an email with interest. Do you know how long it takes to get a response? Or how to get the books faster?

I count our ADHD work as health lol so I didn’t have to add yet another subject. Because I feel your nervousness every year that I’m doing too much. I don’t think you are, but I understand your feelings. So, one year I’ll do health with like nutrition, exercise, etc. And then other times I do his ADHD work as health instead.

What watercolor curriculum do you use?

It’s so refreshing to hear someone say they are a bit nervous how things will work out and not make it sound like they have it all together! We’re all just trial and error-ing our way to a hopefully coherent education 😆♥️

I am impressed with your planning! I like the idea of highlighting areas they will be working with you. That really helps to visualize your time requirements. Not this upcoming school year, but the following is when I plan to split my two older kids. Due to their ages it just makes more sense to split their work. I look forward to seeing how it works for your family and please share any tips you find along the way. I too am nervous for that upcoming change.

Looks great! Hang in there! It’s understandable that such a big shift is nerve wracking. Noise canceling headphones are a great idea.

I love Math Mammoth for reviewing, so independent 😊 can’t wait to see what you think of Storm it’s on my radar for next year!

This was super helpful, thanks for sharing!

this came at the perfect time. I realized very recently that I've never taught my kids how to study. This looks like the perfect resource.

Thank you so much for sharing - what a beautiful review! Just a couple of our Christmas items contain religious material, but they say that very explicitly.

Do you have to have curriculum with K12 school or do you know

We’re also going through k12 school system

My son is also adhd and we go back to school on august 1st

Inspirational, hats off to you. I tent to just move the piles of crap around. 🤞 for me to actually organize. Lol On another note, where did you get the CC cards from? Did I miss that on thexwebsite?🤔

Can I have a copy of your binder set up stuff? Such a great idea

"Pile of crap I need to deal with" LOL!!! You made me laugh -- Love the video

Are the plastic pouch pages in binder just the baseball/pokemon card size?

Oh this is what I need to get on as well! I was going to make a video on it but I feel embarrassed by the state of our homeschool space, but I actually feel inspired by seeing other people’s messes getting sorted. Thanks for documenting this!

Which do you prefer history quest or curiosity chronicles?

Great haul. I love school supplies.

Great picks! I have a few of those cookbooks for kids as well.

I was diagnosed as an adult. I’ve just learned to deal with it. I stopped taking my med when I got pregnant and haven’t taken it since. I see it in my daughter that is 8 and I’m trying to figure out how to best help her. I’ve had to change her math. Making lists helps.

Great book picks!

Thanks for this. From a homeschool dad in Australia.

I"m very grateful for your video! Thank you very much for your time!

Yessss to all of this!! I agree wholeheartedly. It was lovely to put a face with your voice ❤.

Any tips on getting child to blend?

Those planners are awesome!

Will be home schooling our son while we travel around the US so enjoy this content!

I loved seeing your face for a change! I also love seeing all your books too haha but this was a fun change up! Great content :)

“My kids go through tape like you would not believe”. Oh I would believe it 😂 my kids use so much tape. If I didn’t know better, I would think they were eating it. 😅

I'm sorry, I had no idea your name was Kara or Cara or x, sorry for the misspelling. It's so nice to put a face and a name with your channel because I do love your content. One of the things that has been bothering me in the homeschool community lately is the mass pop up of adhd diagnoses and everyone making an almost daily video on it. I'm not dismissing your children, you, or others, but within the past few days, it's been like wow. I think back to the mid 90s when adhd was overdiagnosed and the mass medicating of children with Ritalin and Adderall. But I also know that over time we "now" know more about adhd than we ever have in the past and that there is more statistical reporting and studies being done on it. It's interesting to me though that the recent studies have been more on adhd versus add and we're not seeing as many add diagnoses. I've lived with adhd for years medicated and unmedicated, but I applaud you for having this candid discussion about adhd and for taking the time to share your thoughts and ideas.

I so appreciate this video! Kids are waiting for us to help them. I think you nailed it with that. It’s not a child’s fault their brain works differently. It is our responsibility as both the parent and educator to learn how to best meet them where they’re at. There’s no magic fix it. It requires time, effort and a lot of reading! There’s a lot of negativity surrounding ADHD. It’s perceived as a deficiency. A child with ADHD can absolutely achieve the same things a neurotypical child can, they just may need some additional support and scaffolding to get there. They don’t need dumb downed or oversimplified work. They need to be seen for who they are and how they best learn.

I agree with the point; I'm part of the problem. Once I realized I was part of the problem, I began researching and changing things around in our homeschool. Whether it means shortening the lessons, taking a break, coming back later, or changing the curriculum. My neurodivergent child, with these newly implemented changes and medication, things have noticeably improved. Thank you for sharing this information; very thoughtful and insightful.

Thank you for making this video! Can’t wait to see how you tweak the curriculum to work better for your daughter.

I can SO relate to figuring out I had adhd after someone suggested I do some research in regards to my son.

Great info about homeschooling. I come from a neurodiverse household and really appreciate the stories and info.

Yes! I feel like some of it is FOMO for the parent, maybe? It’s hard to realize you or your kids aren’t like “everyone else” in your friend circle. Sometimes we see videos of neurotypical families like you mentioned and the parent is able to just assign things and they actually get results from their NT child. Yay for them! It’s hard when your family is ND and it doesn’t work like that for us. BUT we need to be able to do some self reflection and realize we aren’t typical and make some curriculum adjustments. There isn’t an adhd curriculum. There isn’t one size fits all. So to up and change everything simply because you just joined the adhd club officially is really a waste of your time and money. I have to adjust curriculum and scaffold everything we use…. Which I’d be doing even if we didn’t have a dx. No intended shade at anyone. But parenting and homeschooling ND kids, for me at least is all about scaffolding and being selective of people and events/experiences as I know we don’t fit into the typical world sometimes. And that’s ok. It’s a mindset adjustment! I think sometimes the parents who change all the things maybe do need to do that just to go through the motions, and they’ll come around eventually. I think it’s the newness of the dx maybe that makes them panic. But like you said… we’ve been doing it for years and the dx is the only thing new here. None of it should be a surprise.

100% yes. My ADHD kids are so challenging - the struggle is real. BUT, when it comes to homeschooling issues, I'm usually the problem. 95% of our less-than-ideal school days are because I'm not prepared, or not able to regulate myself after a morning full of kid meltdowns. We are 5 years and 3 years post diagnoses for my older kids, so none of this is new to us. We've tried lots of things and I really haven't felt that most of the common "how to homeschool ADHD kids" suggestions were helpful (at all).

I will definitely be getting a couple of those Once Upon a book club boxes 🤗📖 The question I have is as a former librarian do you agree that the candle you got smells like library? 😄

I found out the same about nonfiction. I often find myself “reading” it but not absorbing anything. But I read 99% on my kindle. So I decided to keep a notebook to take notes on nonfiction books. Also. I’ve had people get mad because I say homeschool is a job lol