Do you have a six-year-old?

Or remember having one?

Or maybe you’ll have one some day?

It’s such an interesting age —  where many of them spend their days oscillating between baby and big kid. 

Who else has been held hostage on that emotional roller coaster ride?

Once in a while, you get a glance of who they’re becoming, and can almost picture them as teenagers…

Now there’s a heading I never imagined I’d be writing.

But after drafting our Modern Homeschoolers newsletter last weekend, I got to thinking about my first guest podcast recording and “spotting the learning” as it’s happening in our everyday lives.

During the episode, I told a story about how my 10-year-old son had a years-long obsession with Dude Perfect, trick shots and bottle flips. At the time, although I wasn’t certain exactly what he was learning…

This morning I was reminded of an interesting chat I had in the car with my daughter a couple of years ago -  just before her fifth birthday.

I’m not sure where she comes up with these things, but the conversation went something like this:

“Mommy, who do you care about more: me or you?”

Dive deeper into the lessons we discuss in our guide, 5 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier in Our Homeschooling Journey, with links to the companion podcasts, posts and books referenced in the guide.

At its core, modern homeschooling is exercising the freedom we have to choose what matters  – and doesn’t matter –  to our family and the opportunity to build a life around those things. 

We know many more parents would choose to home educate if they knew it didn’t have to look like “school at home”. And we don’t want those families to find out about this option after their kids are grown and their chance to build a life on their terms has passed them by…

It's so easy to be intimidated by math or to think we have to teach it the school way or our kids won't learn it — but that simply isn't true. Numbers are everywhere! 

They are all around us and naturally part of so many of our conversations…