{"id":133711,"date":"2025-04-15T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/?p=133711"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:45:07","slug":"why-we-decided-to-homeschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/why-we-decided-to-homeschool\/","title":{"rendered":"why we decided to homeschool"},"content":{"rendered":"

sharing more about how long we intend to homeschool, and why the heck we\u2019re doing it with just a little over a month left of the school year.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Hi friends!<\/p>\n

I hope that you\u2019re having an amazing week and I\u2019m so pumped that so many of you have signed up for our Spring Forward wellness challenge. Make sure to sign up here \u2013 it\u2019s totally free and it\u2019s going to be a ton of fun. If you\u2019re looking for a blast of motivation as we head into spring, this is the perfect way to do it!<\/p>\n

For today\u2019s post, I wanted to share a little bit more about our homeschool journey and what\u2019s going on. I\u2019ve alluded to the fact that we\u2019ve had a rough time the past few months and it\u2019s been difficult to navigate how and what to share. I\u2019ve always been open with you guys when it comes to my life, but the purpose of the blog has always been to share MY experience; not my children\u2019s.<\/strong> It\u2019s a tricky line to walk, especially when they\u2019re a huge part of my life and I feel like so many of you are a part of our family. At the same, I never want them to feel like their privacy has been invaded by what I share here, so I\u2019ve always tried to take a delicate approach to my content, especially as they\u2019ve gotten older.<\/p>\n

The nutshell version is this: we ended up transferring Liv to another private school in January. We were all struggling with the mind-boggling amount of homework, tests, and assignments. It was especially hard with her competition dance schedule. We switched studios and cut her hours in half, and she was still up until at least midnight every night (for the past 2+ years) trying to finish everything for school. I\u2019m a huge believer in hard work and I think academic rigor has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So, she switched and has been thriving.<\/p>\n

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When she switched schools, it was the first time P hasn\u2019t had her big sis at school, which was challenging for her. The Pilot also retired, which was a huge transition, and she started to have more frequent stomachaches. (Her stomach has bothered her on and off for years, which has always worried me since she had severe reflux as a baby<\/a> and was on Prilosec and Zantac, which has been recalled for terrifying reasons.) She saw multiple doctors, had an ultrasound, her stomach was deemed \u201chealthy,\u201d and their only suggestion was to put her on a PPI again. She was also doing CBT weekly, and sometimes twice a week. Her stomach pain and anxiety got so bad that she missed many days of school, and we were here trying to keep up with the insane amount of homework, classwork, and tests.<\/p>\n

The Pilot was home for retirement and was teaching her the content, making sure she completed the huge packets of classwork, and taking her to school for tests. He had go back to commercial airline training and I couldn\u2019t fathom solo parenting, working, and trying to keep up with all of the school work she was missing, so I asked her to either choose to go back to school or we could pull her out, and she said, \u201cPlease homeschool me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I never intended to be a teacher, but I\u2019ll do anything for our babies and if it\u2019s what P needs right now, I\u2019m going to do it.<\/p>\n

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(We love Nicole the Math Lady! An amazing rec from Brittany<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Also worth mentioning here that I decided to do a Food Sentivity Test<\/a> (and some other functional labs) and got to the root cause of some gut issues, and her gluten sensitivity was severe. No wonder her stomach was hurting :\/ Since she started the protocols and removed gluten, her stomach pain has greatly reduced.<\/p>\n

Our plan now:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 She\u2019s on the waitlist for Liv\u2019s new school but realistically won\u2019t be able to get in until 5th grade<\/p>\n

\u2013 We\u2019ll homeschool until then and if she decides to go back, that\u2019s great, and if she doesn\u2019t want to, that\u2019s ok, too.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is that I used to be really wary of homeschooling.<\/strong> Pre-kids thought to myself, \u201cHow on earth can a parent expect to teach their kids more effectively than a teacher?\u201d<\/p>\n

During the girls\u2019 time in school, we\u2019ve had some extraordinary teachers who are everything teachers should be. They love kids, love what they\u2019re teaching, they are above and beyond. But at the same time, some teachers are\u2026not good. They say bizarre things in class, shame children in front of their peers, and this happens in a private school environment ALL the time, when you are paying for your kid to be taught by instructors who don\u2019t seem to like children at all. A vast majority of the time, we spent the three to four hour block each night teaching anyway, because they weren\u2019t taught the content during their classes.<\/p>\n

Growing up, I also thought that homeschooled kids were probably awkward because they don\u2019t have as much social interaction. The reality is that all of the homeschooled kids I\u2019ve met are kind, articulate, friendly, and incredibly smart.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019ve seen friends homeschool and kind of daydreamed about how how fun it would be, I didn\u2019t consider it a possibility because I work from home, juggling client calls, content creation, podcast interviews, Zooms, IHP work,<\/a> etc. I didn\u2019t feel like I could add another things to my plate, but I didn\u2019t even think twice about it when we got to this point. I\u2019ve shuffled my schedule around a lot so that most of my content creation is done over the weekend, and the beauty about homeschool is that it only takes around two hours each day at this age.<\/p>\n

This post is already super long, so I\u2019ll share another post soon with the curriculum we\u2019re using and how we structure our days.<\/p>\n

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Thank you for your kindness and being so amazing over the past few months. It\u2019s been a rough year in many ways (this is just one of them) and being here with you all each day is a major bright spot. We finished our first full week of homeschool and I\u2019m feeling pretty excited and hopeful about it! I\u2019m also thankful that we get to spend some extra time together and are looking into all of the cool homeschool activities that Tucson offers!<\/p>\n

xoxo<\/p>\n

Gina<\/p>\n

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