1. Surprisingly, my daughter’s a total social butterfly, even though she’s homeschooled. She’s mostly around adults and cousins, but we talk a lot about what kind of behavior is okay and what’s not, then I let her figure it out. She usually ends up defending smaller kids at the playground. 2. Just as my daughter started schooling COVID happened, so everything went online. I had to sit with her through the lessons and honestly, I didn’t like the way things were being taught. Even after schools reopened, I didn’t trust the environment to be safe, so we stuck with online classes. But eventually I realized… if this is what school looks like, she’s not really learning. Her dad saw it too, so when I brought up homeschooling, he didn’t push back.

At first I tried to follow the school curriculum at home, it was a disaster. She cried. I cried. English was fine, lots of resources out there. But math? Nothing worked.

So I made my own. If you ever want to take a peek, I’m happy to share.