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Janae Daniels (00:00):
Are you ready to create a vision for your
homeschool?
Okay, this is the video for you.
Now this is our episode or video.
If you're watching or listening, this is
our episode number three on our crash
course on Homeschooling 101, how Do you
Start Homeschooling?
You should have already listened or watched
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episode one, where we talked about where to
find the laws.
If you haven't, you can go back and watch
that.
It's very short Episode.
The second episode or video was how to
de-school Y'all.
It is a real thing.
I didn't think it was.
It is.
De-schooling is the process of adjustment
from the public schooling mindset to a
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homeschooling mindset, totally different.
And I do realize that episode was very long,
but the information was so valuable that I
had recorded it three separate times and I
could not condense it anymore, and there's
so much that you need to know, and so I
would suggest, if you didn't watch that all
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the way through, go back.
Even if you watch it in little bites,
that's just fine or listen to it.
The information is really, really valuable.
Now, again, these are just more condensed,
little mini.
It's a little mini series.
My podcast, starting with episode one, goes
into a lot more depth, with the exception
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of de-schooling.
I do talk about de-schooling in another
episode, that's in one of the first
episodes of the podcast.
But this is just a little mini series
within the podcast to help you jumpstart
into the homeschooling world.
So today we're going to talk about vision
and creating a vision for your homeschool.
Now why are we talking about this?
Well, let me tell you, stephen Covey says.
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I'm going to read here.
I printed out my notes.
Stephen Covey says to begin with the end in
mind means to start with a clear
understanding of your destination.
It means to know where you're going so that
you better understand where you are now and
so that the steps you take are always in
the right direction.
Okay, he always said begin with the end in
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mind.
What is your end goal?
Uh, if we look into literature I love, uh,
in Alice in Wonderland, lewis Carroll says
this that the Alice is in Wonderland.
She comes upon the Cheshire cat and Alice
says to the cat which way should I go?
And the cat says that depends on where you
are going.
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And Alice says well, I don't know.
And the cat says then it doesn't matter
which way you go.
Okay, y'all, if you don't know what your
end goal is with the kids, homeschooling is
going to feel really hodgepodge and
piecemealed and confusing, but if you have
a very distinct um goal in mind, then it's
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going to make your life so much easier and
it'll keep you focused on the most
important things, because we want to keep
the most important things, the most
important things.
So I've created a PDF you can download it.
It's in the show notes, it's in the
description, depending on if you're
listening or watching.
It's a free PDF for you to answer some
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questions so that you can create a vision,
and these are the questions that you're
going to ask yourself as you're creating
this vision for your family.
Now, in one of the early podcast episodes
that I have that was not part of the mini
series where I talk about uh, missions,
visions, your vision, your values and all
that good stuff Um, I go into a lot more
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depth about what a vivid vision is, so I
would refer you back to that.
I will put the link to that in the show
notes and the description.
So if you want to go back and watch that or
listen to that episode again, depending on
if you're listening or watching um, that's
there and because I go into more about the
vivid vision.
But here are some questions again.
They're they're in the PDF download load
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below, but here are some questions that you
need to consider as you're you're thinking
about.
Okay, I'm in the de-schooling process Now
what is my vision for my family?
And this is something that might shift and
change over time.
I know for me it certainly has.
With one of my children, I always thought
he'd go to college and that is something
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that as he got older and the longer that we
were homeschooling, he changed his mind.
It was like I really don't want to go to
college.
He did do a couple of years at a state
college.
He's done that while he's been in high
school and he's changed his mind and he's
like I know I can always go back, but what
I want to do is entrepreneurship.
He is naturally an entrepreneur and so I
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changed how I homeschooled him based on
that.
Even this last year, he's been studying
entrepreneurs.
He's been studying business books.
He eats them up.
He's been working for various companies,
doing different internships to get
experience so that he can jump in, and and
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he and he's started his own businesses and
things like that.
So, um, my, my goal for him ended up
changing because of what he wanted to do.
But let's talk about these questions.
Um, question number one is what is the end
goal for your child?
Is it college?
Is it for them to go to trade school?
Is it entrepreneurship?
Um, do you want to keep them open for
possibilities?
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Like, well, I don't want to shut down the
college route.
So think about that.
Like, what is that end goal for that child?
Okay, so that's the first thing that you
want to keep in mind and start thinking
about dissecting, digesting.
The second thing is how does that end goal,
your end goal for them align with their
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talents and their interests and their end
goals for themselves?
Now, younger kids are going to.
That's going to change, right.
That's going to adjust and shift as they
get older.
And then, the closer that they get to
leaving your home and going out into the
world and spreading their wings, um,
they're going to get some more idea of what
they like or what they don't like.
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And when they're little, you just maybe
you're like I think I want them to go to
college, or I at least want to open up
possibilities.
Again, the older that they are, the more
they're going to have an opinion about it.
Okay, the next question you're going to ask
are what are the most important things that
you want them to leave your house knowing
or believing and this is very personal from
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family to family what are the morals and
values that you want to instill?
What are the most important things that you
want them to leave your house knowing or
believing?
What morals do you want to instill in them?
What beliefs about themselves do you want
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them leaving with?
Maybe you have religious beliefs that are
firm convictions that you want to instill
in your children, whether or not they
choose your morals, your values, your
religion, um, really ends up becoming up to
them, as I've learned having adult children.
But but at least as a parent, we do our
best to try.
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So I want you to to ask yourself, like what
are the most important things you want to
leave your house knowing or believing about
the world, about themselves?
And that also includes like what
information will they need to know?
Which brings us to the next question what
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are the most important things that they'll
need to know as they go into adulthood?
Right, one of my big things was like I
didn't learn a lot about taxes when I was
in high school.
I didn't learn about lot about taxes when I
was in high school.
I didn't learn about you know finance,
financial things like that, um, and my
parents also didn't go over it with me.
I wish they would have.
So what are, um, important things that
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they're going to need to know as they go
into adulthood?
Do they will they need to learn to cook?
Do they need to know how to do their
laundry?
I was shocked in college at how many people
that I knew couldn't do their laundry.
Like I had to show them how to do their
laundry.
I wasn't homeschooled, but I did come from
a family of a lot of kids and we had to
learn really young how to do our own
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laundry.
Okay, so what are the most important things
that they're going to need to know as they
go into adulthood?
So we've got the beliefs and your belief
system and what they believe about
themselves.
What will they need to know going into
adulthood?
Okay, next question is reflecting on your
own life.
What were the most valuable lessons or
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classes that helped you into adulthood and
your life?
So, reflecting back, what things are you
like?
Oh man, I'm so glad that I learned blank.
For me, I'm really glad that I took a
typing class.
Seriously, uh, so glad I took a typing
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class.
I'm actually really glad I read a lot of
literature because that shaped, that goes
back to that morality piece that shaped a
lot of who I am and, uh, having an ethical
compass along with my family's religious
beliefs.
Okay, so, reflecting on your own life, what
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were the most valuable lessons or classes
that you had that helped you into adulthood
or your life?
Okay, next one what information has been
the most useful?
What things have you learned in that you
have learned as an adult that you think, ah,
my kids should probably know this.
Cooking, it's kind of an important thing.
How do you change a tire?
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How do you uh get estimates, how you know,
like all those little things, um, what's
good car maintenance right?
Um, what information is useful, information
that they're going to need?
Okay, what were the most memorable moments
and your favorite memories growing up?
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Because maybe I know some of y'all are like,
oh, I'm really sad that my children, you
know, you have this fear of missing out,
like, oh, my kids are not going to get to
go to prom or whatever.
Honestly, prom was not that great for me.
It was like, eh, you know, I went with one
of my friends.
He was a nice guy, we had a fun time.
It was another dance, um, but there was
other memorable moments, social moments
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that I'm like oh, I, I did do speech and
debate and that was so fun for me and I do
want my kids to be involved in something
similar or involved in theater or involved
in whatever which in the homeschooling
world.
We can provide those things.
We can find groups.
We can, you know, find theater companies
and bands and orchestras and sports teams
outside of the school system, and a lot of
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times there's also dances in the
homeschooling world.
Um, in in my state, kids can still attend
school dances if they get permission from,
like, the superintendent.
So think of thinking back on your memorable
moments that you're worried that your kids
will miss out on.
Um, you can plan that in your vision with
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your homeschooling, are you?
Are you worried about like, graduation?
Like, oh, I don't want my kids to miss out
on that, that graduation experience, guess
what?
That's okay.
You can create a graduation experience for
your children if that's something that's
really important to you and important to
your kids.
Again, the older that the kids get, the
more buy-in that they get as they move into
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adulthood.
We want them to have say and opinions about
things.
That's something that we don't see a lot in
the public school system.
They don't.
You get a few elective choices, but beyond
that, you will take these classes or you
don't graduate right.
There's not a lot of choice beyond a few
elective classes that they can choose from.
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Okay.
So the next question is what classes or
concepts prove to be a waste of time in
your personal life?
What were the things that you learned that
you're like?
I never, ever, used that For me.
I never used calculus, not ever.
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Um, now I do have a child.
Taking into consideration children's
interests, I do have a child that has a
mathematical brain and he loves math, and
so, even though I don't and won't utilize
calculus, if he so chooses to continue his
math onto calculus, then I will support him
in that Right, um.
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Or if, if, let's say, I had a child who
wanted to be an engineer and I knew that
they would have to have trig to get into
those classes, yes, you're going to, you're
going to plan for that, um, but otherwise
there's a lot of things that are taught in
school that are really not necessary to be
taught.
And remember, as some of us are like, I
remember thinking at the beginning like oh
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no, they have to know all these things
because that's what's expected, except for
remember that some guy sometime at the turn
of the century decided what would be taught.
And when you know, somebody decided, oh, in
second grade they need to learn X, y, z.
And I'm not talking about reading, writing
and math.
I'm talking about, like, at some point
somebody decided, okay, in fourth grade
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they need to learn about ecosystems, like
somebody picked and they chose for
everybody else.
All right.
It's.
One of my beefs with this school system is
we're all learning the same thing at the
same time, and the world is full of so much
information.
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Why do we all have to learn the same thing?
Like there's a big pie and we all have to
learn the exact same slice of pie.
We all get the exact same thing, and
there's so much more, so much more to the
world than that.
Okay, next question that I want you to
answer what information were you expected
to learn that hasn't been useful, so
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similar to the waste of time?
What did you learn that hasn't been useful
to you?
And then, finally, the last question that
you're going to ask yourself fill this out
is what classes or information do you wish
that you had learned when you were in your
home with your mom and dad, you know so,
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really think about that, so fill that out.
And then I want you to create what's called
a vivid vision and again I talk in extent
about what a vivid vision is in an earlier
episode that will be posted in the show
notes.
I want you to think about that, create a
very detailed vivid vision for your family
and keep this as a focal point as you begin
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to craft, um, how you plan on doing your
child's or children's education.
Um, and post your, your educational vision
somewhere prominent for for your family to
see and to keep it as a reminder.
Now, again, will it shift and change
Potentially?
Yeah, especially as the kids get older and
you start to see little talents develop in
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them and you're like, oh wow, I didn't, I
didn't realize that you really are a good
singer, I didn't realize that when you were
five you liked to sing, but now I'm hearing
a voice develop and you need voice lessons.
Oh, maybe music might be a path for you.
Again, things, things shift and change, and
that is perfectly fine, um, and so this is
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your next step is to start really creating
a vision, and it's okay to take time to
think about and add to and take away from
as you're, as you're working through this.
Okay, so that's the third thing you're
going to do Again.
First, you know the laws.
Second, you're in the middle or have gone
through the de-schooling process.
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Give yourself time with that.
It takes a lot longer than you might
anticipate, especially for yourself.
Third, you create a vision.
All right, in the next episode we are going
to talk about educational philosophies,
which blew my mind, because I only learned
one way when I was in my post-baccalaureate
education program to become a teacher.
And so in the next video episode, if you're
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listening, we are going to be discussing
very briefly some educational philosophies.
This will give you a little bit of a taste
so that you can start researching yourself
on these different philosophies.
With that, we'll see you in the next
episode.