TRAILER: We're Homeschooling After Years in Public Education -- & this was NOT the plan!

Ever feel like you're just managing your kids instead of actually parenting them? That's exactly where we found ourselves—rushing through mornings and evenings, always telling our children to hurry up while strangers shaped their days. We're Carson and Teran, accountants who run a business together and parents to three amazing kids. After 4 years in public education, we are homeschooling! And this was NOT the plan!

Two years ago, we would have sworn homeschooling was only for stay-at-home parents with endless time for educational crafts and gourmet lunches. Now we're learning it can look entirely different—and that's okay.

This podcast captures our real-time journey into the unknown. We're equal parts terrified and excited, committed to transparency about both our successes and inevitable failures. Each week, we'll share what's working, what's definitely not working, and how we're managing to balance it all without losing our minds. 

No experts here—just a family trying something different because what we were doing wasn't working anymore. 

Subscribe now to join us on this adventure and see where unexpected paths can lead when you're brave enough to follow them.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey there, welcome to .
Well, that Wasn't the Plan.
I'm Carson.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And I'm Taryn, and we've been married for 12 years
now.
We have three kids and we run aCPA firm together.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
We also live on a family compound in Texas with
Taryn's mom, her two sisters anda ton of crazy kids.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, it's definitely constant chaos over here.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Right.
And now we're adding anotherwild twist to our life we are
homeschooling.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We're homeschooling, which we never thought we would
do.
We weren't homeschooled when wewere kids, and we actually
moved here to be close to apublic school that we absolutely
loved, but, as it happens, lifehas other plans.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, our kids really needed something different, and
that led us to rethinkingeverything.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
We were tired of only spending a few hours a day with
the kids, and really thosehours we were just instructing
them to hurry, hurry to getready, hurry to get to practice,
hurry to get showered and hurryto get to practice, hurry to
get showered and hurry to get tobed, only to do it all over
again the next day.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
We realized that we weren't parenting.
We were only managing managingour kids in the mornings and
evenings and letting strangerstake the reins the rest of the
day.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, and two years ago, if you would have asked us
about homeschooling, I wouldhave said it was really only for
stay at home parents who hadthe entire day to devote to
homeschooling and garden andmaybe cook some like really
fabulous meals.
But we've learned recently thatit can look a lot different

(01:41):
than that.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, I mean, we know this is going to be hard.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So hard.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
So much harder than we can probably even imagine
right now, until we do it, butit's going to be worth it.
What we're currently doing isnot working, so we're going to
do something different.
We miss our kids.
We miss the time as a familyand the connection.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
And the school system may work for some, but for us,
we feel defeated and lost in theconstant chaos and shuffle, and
so do our kids.
They are asking us to take thisleap, so we feel like we have
to do this for them.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Right, and the crazy part, this podcast was actually
our daughter's idea.
She was like, hey, we should doa podcast about homeschool.
So here we are.
Here we are we're committing toone year of sharing what it's
really like to homeschool whilerunning a business and raising
three kids.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, and we are obviously not experts at all.
We're just going to figure itout as we go and we'll be honest
about all of the good stuff andall of the bad stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, we will.
I mean, we're doing thisbecause we want to slow down,
cut out the chaos and drown outthe noise that's been
overwhelming our lives for thepast few years.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And, honestly, we're terrified, absolutely terrified,
yeah, and we're also reallyreally excited for this new
change.
It's been much, much needed anda long time coming, but we're
excited and we're scared all atonce.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
So if you're a parent or a homeschooler or you're
just trying to survive theunexpected, you're in good
company.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We'll be checking in every single week with real talk
, real life and likely a lot ofhomeschool fails.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, we're glad you're here.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
So let's see where this goes.