 Homeschooling should not be hard if it's hard you're doing something wrong if you know your days are going longer It shouldn't be that you guys. My name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel You guys in today's video We're gonna have like a homeschool chit chat a little bit of a homeschool rant and I'm just gonna you know Bring back these videos for you guys because I really enjoy making them for you So today's topic is bad homeschooling advice and I know a lot of you guys have seen like this topic in Like the homeschooling community. I just want to bring it back up one more time here on my channel So you guys this week we have been having our weeks break off I've been relaxing. We really have been enjoying our week off I've been catching up on chores and because I've been catching up on like housework and some of my fun TV shows, I also have been catching up on like a lot of youtube videos this week And I will say by me watching and consuming more youtube videos than my norm I should say I have came across a lot of videos with just awful and bad Homeschooling advice and I kind of just I don't know like I was getting really really like fed up with hearing Some of these same topics, you know being repeated over and over and over again, and I was like, you know what? I really hope there is not a homeschooling mama out there really taking heed to this bad homeschooling advice And you know, I just want to debunk a lot of these like commonly Misused statements among the homeschooling community and I'm gonna do it here in today's video Hopefully not too many of you guys will be pretty mad or upset But these are my thoughts in my opinions and we're just gonna go ahead and have this homeschooling chit chat so You guys now since it's kind of like curriculum planning and buying season We have been seeing like a lot of planning videos or I have been seeing like a lot of planning and Brainstorming videos and you guys like I really really have been overall enjoying watching like the brainstorming process and like How people are thinking and planning for their upcoming homeschool years But in the midst of that it's this trend or the same comment I've been hearing over and over again, which is I'm not going to teach my child x y and z Because I feel like it's not applicable to the real world and to the real life outside of their formal education and you guys like oh It's so cringy when I keep on hearing this topic because it's like I feel like as a home educator You guys I'm already getting puffed up But I feel like as a home educator It is our sole responsibility to give our kids a proper well-rounded Education I feel like every child has a right to a well-rounded Education and as a home educator we're taking on that responsibility to educate our kids and to really educate them properly and I feel like by omitting certain subjects or omitting certain things because we deem it's not valuable we are doing our children a Injustice and I'm so tired of hearing parents and homeschooling parents say this same topic over and over and over again and I'm just going to give you an example like For example, I hear it a lot when it comes to writing So I hear a lot of homeschooling parents say, you know what? I don't want to teach my child an intensive writing course I don't want to go through that with them outside of you know High school. I really haven't had to write any you know many papers Especially depending on like your major that you major in college whether you go to college or not Whatever the case may be I do hear it a lot when it comes to writing like We're not going to do an intensive writing. They're going to learn how to write eventually And I feel like while there are ways to be more innovative when it comes to teaching our kids certain subjects I feel like by omitting them in its entirety It's is awful like you you're doing your child an injustice and I'm so tired of hearing that statement a lot And I've been hearing it so much and I think that's why I'm like all fired up right now about that one My second statement that I've been or a second piece of bad advice that I have been hearing And this has been really pertaining to a lot of like homeschooling high school videos that I have been watching I am prepping and preparing my daughter's My oldest order for high school. I know I'm in sixth grade, but I'm already making a plan for her high school I feel like I'm about 75% done with planning her high school My goal is to have high school completely mapped out by the end of her seventh for a year I'm really I really have been giving myself a lot of time to plan out our high school I want to be prepared and I have been doing a lot of research on how to high school Homeschool especially specifically for my state in a state of Georgia. You guys don't worry when I get it all together I will share it with you guys. I haven't gotten it all together But in the midst of me doing high school planning It's not that many homeschooling high school videos on YouTube, but the ones I have been seeing It's so cringy for me to keep on hearing this statement over and over again where I'm not going to teach my child this in high school because I I don't think that they're going to go to college or I'm not going to teach or do this credit because This is not applicable to their life and what they are Enjoying right now. So I'm just not going to do or teach this subject to my high schooler And again, this falls back at my number one statement. I feel like every child has a right to a proper Education and second of all, I feel like every child should have the opportunity if they want to to go to college and Whether or not they go to college or not that is, you know, our children's decision But we as home educators need to prepare them for college if you know, just regardless I mean, that's just my personal opinion regardless. I feel like we should prepare them for the unexpected I should say and By saying, you know what my child seems to be Interested in like let's just say for an example. My child seems to be interested in like a lawn mowing He has spent, you know, the past three years throughout high school doing his lawn mowing business And I definitely think that this is where he wants to go. Well, hey, what if that child, you know wakes up one morning It says, you know what? I enjoy lawn mowing, but I think I want to go into architecture I want to do architecture school and you've spent the past three years not preparing that child For college thinking that they didn't want to go to college and here you are senior year And the kid is not ready to go to college And I feel like that will be a hard hit as a parent to or a hard hit or a hard pill to swallow as a parent That we didn't do our due diligence and preparing our children For college regardless of if they want to use it or not here in my home school I am preparing all of my kids for college Whether they decide to go or not that's their choice, but it's my responsibility to prepare them And while we may take different Ways to give our kids high school credits. We may do things and courses a little bit more innovative We may do them formally non-formally High school as I've been doing my research is more I guess lenient and graceful than I thought when it comes to like giving high school credits And for specific areas we don't necessarily have to Follow the traditional mode of following a textbook cover the cover We do have more leniency in homeschooling I still feel like it is my responsibility as a home educator And I'm taking on this responsibility to prepare all three of my children for college And that's what I'm going to be doing here in my home school The third piece of bad advice that I've been hearing Especially when it comes to high school or in general, I should say is I do not like when I see a emphasis put on life skills In the homeschooling community versus academics I feel like as home educators or home schoolers first of all We have one thing that public school doesn't have we have time We're able to do like our homeschooling in half the amount of a time That a public school student would be doing their work So because of that We have the time to do both we can focus on academics and life skills We don't have to outweigh one or the other we can have both of those things I do in my homeschool prioritize like cooking laundry cleaning budgeting finances. Um The other day my husband had to get his like Registration on his tags and my daughter was like, what's that? Well, guess what she learned about tag registration and how to do it and why it's important Why we need to do an admissions test each year and bam She just learned her life skill that quick from my husband And I just want to let you know that it's not one or the other in our homeschooling journeys We can have both. Um, and I guess I just want to put emphasis on that We can do it. We can do it all we can have it all especially in that aspect My third bad piece of advice or just overall in general that I hate seeing here in the homeschooling community Is avoiding teaching certain subjects solely based on personal and religious beliefs Again, I'm going to say that one more time avoiding teaching certain subjects solely based on our personal Uh religious beliefs I feel like again every child has a right to a well-rounded education And while I get it some parents don't want to teach world religion or they don't want to teach Greek mythology or Evolution or new earth versus young earth is certain subjects that they're like, oh, no This is just we're not doing this in our homeschool. I feel like yeah I get it. You may not want to teach world religions in elementary school Maybe even high school or maybe even middle school. I should say but high school I do think in your history curriculum. You can touch on it And I don't think that the kids or those personal values that you instilled in your kids will diminish Hopefully they don't if you teach them about another culture or religion in your homeschool Whether you decide to teach them about evolution. I feel like their Beliefs their personal beliefs that you have instilled upon your children They will not be diminished if you teach them ideals and things outside of your own beliefs That's just my personal opinion I do not want my children to be able to experience Listening to different ideals and opinions outside of our home I want our home our table to be a open floor open dialogue, especially as they get older No topic is is untouchable here in my home I want my kids to be able to come to me come to my husband and we always have open dialogue about everything I do not want them to face the world and it's just like their bubble has been popped All these different beliefs and opinions and ideals are just coming at them full force And I didn't prepare them for that and by avoiding certain subjects and topics I mean, I'm doing that, you know, and I know a lot of people say, oh, yeah in homeschooling We uh, we kind of want to shelter our kids from certain things. I get that it's certain things I don't want my 12 year old to see right now. I get that but as they get older and mature I feel like little by little to prepare them for this world. That is our responsibility and our due diligence as parents The fifth piece of bad advice I've been hearing a lot is it's no such thing as being behind in your home school Relax mama. It's okay. You are enough. We are enough God gave us these children. It is our responsibility to teach them and we can do it Like I'm so tired of hearing that cliche advice um, I feel like if You feel in your heart as a homeschooling parent that your kid is behind in a specific area I feel like it's It's your responsibility to hit whatever nail point that is that they need to work on and you work on it While I feel like being behind in homeschool is arbitrary because we are working with an individual child Not a whole classroom. We're working on that individual's child's needs And some concepts and skills in different levels may come faster or slower I get that that's totally fine But if this is an area that we know that our kid is struggling with and we're just going to say, you know what? I'm enough and I'm just going to let it go. I feel like we're not doing our due diligence again as a home educator If my kid is struggling with multiplication. Guess what? I'm going to pull out the flashcards I'm going to find some type of resource or something that's going to help those facts stick with that kid So we can make progress. I'm going to make a goal We're going to check off that goal every single day until we reach it and it's simple as that Um, I don't think we need to be fearful of the fact that maybe our kid may not be at a great level in a specific skill But just not doing nothing and putting our hands up and saying i'm enough I feel like that's not enough another thing too when it comes to uh writing I hear a lot of people say well, my kid's not writing just yet and while I think it's okay writing It's just a tough skill and I know I keep on bringing up writing But I know writing is a tough skill for a lot of people and I keep on bringing it up because I get so many questions About how I teach my daughter how to write and things like that in my home school Because your kids are like struggling with writing Um, and you don't know what to do. I feel like not doing nothing is not enough If you have a middle schooler that's not writing a paragraph Start off with the basics get them writing sentences get them writing paragraphs You know work on whatever skill you feel like your kid is behind in little by little And you will see progress and you will see progression. Um, and that's just all I have to say about that one my last Bad piece of advice that I feel like I've been hearing a lot on Just youtube in general is that homeschooling should not be hard If it's hard, you're doing something wrong If you know your days are going longer It shouldn't be that it should be simple. It should be relaxed This is a long journey And and you need to figure out the areas that you need to omit if it feels hard You guys like I know this is a hard pill to swallow, but homeschooling is hard like and Like for me, I'm in middle school right now and I'm not gonna lie. I get why a lot of people quit after elementary school Because you know, I feel like the dust is really hitting the fan right now for me preparing my kiddo because it's like the years are you know counting down and um Homeschooling right now for me for my middle schooler. It is hard But does that mean we're I'm doing something wrong or something's out of whack It doesn't it's just certain seasons in homeschooling You know, we just have to put our head down and buckle down Teaching a kid to read like phonics and teaching my um my middle daughter to read It's not easy you guys and sometimes it's not fun. I'm going to be completely honest. It is hard, but Overall Because certain aspects of my homeschool feels hard right now It doesn't mean that it's wrong or I'm doing something wrong. It's just the natural I guess progression of working and building with your kiddo And if your homeschool feels hard, especially right now, you know, this is just a season where it feels hard for everyone We're not quite there yet. We're at the halfway point, but we're not at the finish line of our homeschooling year It's getting mundane. Um, it's winter time. It's still cold. Um This is definitely the time where we start to feel that hard And a lot of people want to switch up curriculums and change things and change routines and they feel like something's off whack I just want to let you know it's okay. If you are in a season of heart It will get better. Um homeschooling does have its seasons and again right now is winter winter is cold and dry But when spring times comes, you know, it's a little bit different in spring time, you know We start to see. Oh, yeah, those seeds that we planted. They're starting to butt now Those things and those concepts that I've been teaching they're starting to click now and uh, I feel like the way our seasons flow is the way homeschooling flows too and um, I am in a hard season right now in my homeschool but will this last forever absolutely not and I will continue to truck along And do my best and my due diligence as a home educator for all of my kids I love them so much and I feel like if I'm taking on this task for them I'm going to do it right So you guys tell me what you think about my video this homeschool rant about bad homeschooling advice If you have heard any bad homeschooling advice you guys put it down in the comment section below Let's have a chat about it and as always you guys Thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody and my next one. Bye