Join us as Melissa shares her unique parenting experience homeschooling 7 children including several with special needs, honestly reckoning with race in a multi-racial household, and the realities of navigating her own mental health in the midst of it all.
Melissa Mowry (she/her) is a homeschooling mother of seven children, aged 8-22, four of whom have special needs of one sort or another. She taught elementary school for four years before having her first child Hannah and becoming a stay-at-home-mom. While it was never her intention to homeschool, she is now the middle of her thirteenth year doing so. She has been married for 26 years to her husband Brad, and lives with her family in Frederick, Maryland.
Content warnings include ableism, racism, and transracial adoption.
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