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Nice idea mam. Keep rocking ❤

We lived in New Zealand for 5 years and it was so amazing!!!

I can’t love this video any more! 💖 I so appreciate your perspective and topics you’ve been sharing through your videos lately. We also homeschool through a CA charter, and between 2 back to back pregnancies/newborns in the last 3 years, we’ve ended up schooling through the summer to “catch up” or finish our curriculum. It’s so hard to get the public school model out of my head. Where we are in northern CA, temps have been 105-115° this summer which isn’t uncommon. While watching this, I realized that we really should be utilizing our break time during the spring and fall since we literally will burn if we spend time outdoors. 🥵 Your content and calm demeanor are so encouraging to me while I lose the rigidity that I hold myself. 🫶🏻

I struggle with this topic as I want to homeschool In a rigorous Way but doable so relaxed!!! I like a hands on approach as well!!! I often switch up when we do certain things!!! I refuse to do long hrs of instruction and we focus on depth!!! We love rabbit trails!!! In Aussie history textbooks the 1st ppls aren’t mentioned, I don’t agree with that personally!!! One of my kids does masterbooks math and they encourage math outside the textbook!!! We do more discussions than essays!!! My older kids call them papers as they have to write a few for their classes but I think they write enough!!! We have to keep a portfolio but I doubt it will be a binder per kid!!! I reflect a lot!!! We are classical homeschoolers but I want to do it in a relaxed way!!!

I think for myself, focusing on consistency is providing rigor for my kids💕love your videos lately!!

We find a discussion is a good marker but sometimes I have to ask certain questions!!! I backwards plan and I’ve taught my older kids to backwards plan!!! We have a mix of curriculum and kid led research projects and deep dives!!! Public schools focus on in and out but I agree on skill development!!! Our homeschool room is a storage room and we homeschool in different places!!! The woman you didn’t kno I remember hearing it from Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography audiobook!!! We are planning on visiting the Bondi aboriginal places that still exist in the spring or summer (September to January)!!!

I’m a first time viewer here. I have to just say I love listening to you. You just talk like you’re talking to a friend. I love your personality and your comments. You’re so honest. I’m subscribing. “It’s not all about the kids.” Haha yes. Love it.

My son was homeschooled for 3 years, but I outsourced everything because we constantly argued throughout it all. It wasn't worth continuing and ruining our relationship. Now I'm homeschooling my daughter (5) and my biggest fear was not being qualified to teach her to read. We do use a curriculum. it's an open and go style. She's reading like a champ. We have surpassed my expectations by leaps and bounds. I'm glad that there are people out there (like you!) who say don't cut yourself short.

May I ask what how you are pacing this? How long is each lesson if you were to do all the things listed? Would this be too much for a 7th and 4th grader, my 4th grader?

Thanks for sharing. This looks great and not at all overwhelming to me. When you talked about other history curriculums in this video, may I ask what is ‘history of the world,’ I haven’t heard of that one, would you mind linking it for me? X

I love curriculum but we sometimes don’t bother!!! We don’t use a geography curriculum unless my kids ask for one!!! We addat curriculum!!! Rabbit trails are awesome!!! I have 3 kids doing write by numbers in a class now!!! One of my twins was sitting in with her bother and asked me to enroll her so I did alongside her twin brother!!! My older daughter is doing a year of research for a social studies credit (Japanese culture, geography and history) she wanted to do it!!! Reflection is key in education especially home education!!!

Love this style of video. My son is in mainstream school here in Australia but I’m strongly leaning towards homeschool for next year (ex teacher here too). It’s amazing how many teachers homeschool their kids!

The whole family got burned out apart from my older daughter but she’s only researching Japanese history and culture and geography!!! We travel to different countries so it’s more travel schooling!!! I saw travel schooling is any homeschool that travels in any way!!! I love to buy a curriculum to adapt to our needs so we have a guideline!!! Homeschool classes helped me to pull out my kids as I knew I’d struggle in certain areas to teach!!! Homeschool is completely different than school!!! The mean mum had to come out recently but I have teenagers who don’t listen!!! We don’t use summer books but we homeschool year round!!!

Thank you for sharing your family adventures. ❤ This was an enjoyable video to watch. I love how beautiful California was at this time of year. Once I realized how much our fam life is being weighed down by trying to keep up with the curriculum's pacing, I finally took the hint in spring just to slow down. And we got to enjoy, too, Southern California's natural beauty. Just watching this makes me already miss it! 🥲 Didn't get to finish any curriculum in my first year of homeschooling 🤷‍♀️ but that's okay because I also remember having teachers that didn't either.

We end the yr at Easter so we just did a Easter unit and went to New Zealand for a few days with my older kids so we could jump off the sky tower!!! My younger kids stayed at home with their grandparents!!! We had an event at home and then had some time off and New Zealand is a quick flight for us!!!

You have been such an inspiration to me. I have been going through the motions for the last year. I've been nothing but overwhelmed and easily irritated. Now, I just need to talk my husband into letting me do some life changes so we can slow down, too. Thank you. ❤

Thank you for this. It really eased my mind❤. I often wonder “but what if I ‘m not teaching what they need to know or enough of something”? Got to take it step but step 👍🏽

Is this book cover complete geography of America 🇺🇸?? Kindly answer mam

Woohoo!

I hope anyone new to homeschooling listened to Xuan's advice at 17:04. I wish I didnt overdid the curriculum research last summer when I first started. 😅 Xuan, thanks for the little extra video footage (like the June Gloom weather) you added to this book haul. I too have kits I would like to finish this summer before the start of the new school year (when we may end up with surprise more subscription kits) but I am still trying to take it easy this summer since I am just getting over a health scare last month. How do you go almost no curriculum in a public charter school situation?

We are in Lima so it’s mega hot!!! My stepdad went to the mountains and said it was cold tho!!! We heard the season depends on elevation!!! Our homeschool room wasn’t ever used apart from storage so not having one isn’t a problem!!! My older kids are in their own hotel room next to ours so they have their own space!!! Individual learning is awesome!!! We had a week of food technology on a cruise and it was awesome!!! My older kids went on their own to their room for the classes!!! The ocean book looks awesome!!! The vlogs are awesome!!! We love the Clark the shark books and my older kids will read them for extra phonics practice!!! Nothing wrong with rolling over curriculum!!! We love Easy Peasy, it’s free and online!!! This year we watched a movie of a book instead of reading it!!! We where learning about a famous athlete who refused to run on a Sunday!!! I was an early years teacher so we could be more creative!!!

Thank you for this review!

I don’t fold laundry but we hang it up!!! For family subjects I do the same thing!!! My high schooler is included as well as my 8th grader doing high school credits and I let her do high school level!!! History is different for my 16 year old at the moment due to my kids hating it!!! We’ve been doing food classes for everyone in our community so it’s been fun and my kids are doing different classes to us adults!!! I learned to braid bread!!! Still got a lot to learn!!!

I LOVE YOU! So real and beautiful ✨

We have stopped homeschooling on comp days as my kids love to watch them!!! I love the kneading process of baking bread!!! I’m trying to teach my kids the separation of work and life!!! I love working in bed as well!!! I plan trips for work as I used to be a travel agent!!! We still have seaweed left from Japan!!!

I used to do heatless curls like that!!! I was a kid so I’d forgotten how k did it!!! It’s awesome that ur finished your course!!! I’ve never made lemonade but often buy cloudy lemonade as it’s a made form Lemons!!! I’ve been making sure laundry is done before we move locations even if I did it the day before!!! My kids have been eating too much Mac and cheese but I’ve allowed them as a treat!!!

Homeschool is definitely a lifestyle of flexibility!!! We love the travel life!!! We are about to leave the Caribbean for a team building cruise!!! We are doing online classes!!! I don’t like makeup!!! My girls are obsessed tho!!! Nothing wrong with having kids late!!! I have to use reef sunscreen!!! We bought tons in Hawaii and then wen we went back home at Easter!!! I love shark bone birth powder in smoothies!!! I don’t assign books so that my kids can read what they want!!! I do encourage certain books but they don’t need to read them!!!

Thanks for sharing! I am going to have to remember to save the idea of making a time lapse video to get my kids to clean when they are older. 😂 Also, your costco haul looks similar to my usual shopping haul. I wish they have better kimchi but they started to have better options for frozen Asian foods which makes my life easier on hard days when I don't have time to cook.

I need help with my public school narrow mind. How do you get through the curriculum in a school year without doing every subject everyday?

❤❤ Love this!

Nice music in this one! (And soy sauce eggs is a go-to for me too! 10/10, would recommend.)

Love all the resources! Any ideas for elementary Ancient history? I'd love yo piece together vs buying the year long curriculum.

Cousin, this was beautifully made. It made me tear up and smile! Love you!❤ And ps. Nico and Ari soooo need to help you with the dishes😂😂😂

Love this! It makes me want to put together my own videos for memory keeping. I would post it online but the state of my home is not instagrammable. 😂 thanks for the encouragement for having a self care system in place. It is something I am still working on.

Thanks so much for doing this video! I purchased this second hand with everything out of order so this saved me hours of organizing!

Followed for homeschool content, but stayed because we’re a slow-living family ourselves and your approach to homeschool resonated because of it. Hope to still hear about homeschool stuff from time to time but also looking forward to the new direction!

Did you end up liking this curriculum? I have a 6, 7 and 10yo and I'm debating about using this one or the 4-6 level (or both!)

😂😂Xuan!! I like my self-care to include fluffy stuff like skincare😅, but I also really love to bake, read, go on bike rides, and walks. It truly does take me to another place when I'm outside. Clears my mind from all the nonsense and things in the world I think I need to keep up with. How do you embrace slow living with homeschool? Do your kids need to meet certain standards with their school to move forward? I really don't know how that works. Well I'm enjoying these videos and I'm glad you'll still be sharing some homeschool content with this new journey. As always, thank you!!

I’ve been doing checklist type plan on Trello where I have subjects and a checklist of planned lessons and books I want them to read. I did get a paper planner, but I’m undecided if I’m going to use it for planning or a record what we did Thing. I’m watching this in may and we are planning to start our new year in June as we go year round.

I really enjoyed watching this. I love how you embrace slow living but also balance slow living with not having to make all your family meals from scratch. Also, I wish I could try all the yummy Japanese snacks.

My older kids are in a new writing class and they use writing by number!!! One of my colleague’s dad teaches the class!!! He uses it to preach!!! We need to do more beach schooling!!! We did at home but we don’t on our travels yet we are often in beach locations!!! I love the idea of getting smoothies after the library!!! I remember eating some of that food in Japan!!! We never used our air firer but love our small countertop oven!!!

I love how real you are. <3

I totally understand where you’re coming from. I envy that you can not stress and just wait! But if I didn’t have next year planned out before this year ends, I wouldn’t be able to relax over the summer. I’m getting ready to order today, I’ll spend these last 2-3 weeks of this school year organizing, and then I won’t even look at it until the few days before we start.