April 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Tiff has some questions about homeschooling your kid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What would your gut reaction be if someone looked at you,
someone in your life that you're close with, looked at
you and said, no judgment on this gut reaction, I'm
going to start homeschooling my kids.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, you and I most likely would have a similar
gut reaction.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You want to be a part of some tea that
has like literally nothing to do with you, small town
drama that you can be. You know, you can be
a fly on the wall for sometimes it's a good feeling,
right you have no stake in the game, so you're like, sure,
why not? This has to do with my family. My
brother called me if he didn't know. This is not
to get like too deep into my family tree, but
I have two half brothers, a half sister, and a
(00:46):
step sister. My oldest half brother called me because I'm
getting ready for a family trip in May, and he's,
you know, he wanted to know about my dad's estate.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You guys were all a part of that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And then he's catching me up and the tea and
he goes, I've decided that I'm gonna start homeschooling my kids.
And I would try to heard not to be judgmental
about it and approach it from a more curious angle,
which you know that's my style anyways, although like it's hard,
it's hard not to be judgmental on this topic because
(01:20):
am I wrong for thinking?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And this is where I'm super naive on this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So I'm this, I'm gonna be leaning on you a
little bit because I'm gonna need some help heading into
this family trip. So I'm like, I'm checked into the
right place, you know, and I want to come from
a from a good place.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But when I think of the homesschold kids, I think
of like the weird, like the horse girl. Right, am
I wrong?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And so I was like, Oh, explain to me a
little bit more where you're coming from with this. By
the way, for context purposes, there's an eleven year old
and a nine year old and the previous schooling that
they've had has been like kind of monissory. I'm pretty
sure they went to a one hundred percent outdoor school.
I didn't know that those exist. Again, this is in
(02:05):
New England, by the way, I should have prefaced this.
This is a Massachusetts thing. This is what we're doing
up in Massachusetts sent them to a school that was
like completely outside, kind of jealous as somebody that is
an aquarius and loves nature and such. And that school
is getting ready to end, right They're aging out of that,
and so he's deciding do I send them to a
traditional public middle school, some sort of private school, or
(02:27):
do I just homeschool them. Now I've heard, and this
is where you're gonna come into. I've heard that homeschooling
has gotten way better. His reasoning was pretty interesting behind it,
and not to share some of his personal thoughts on
the radio, but you know, since it's just you and
I this morning, he wants to have a little bit
more control over what they're exposed to until they are
(02:50):
at a better age to make good decisions for themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
One side of that is like, well are you sheltering them?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And the other side of that is, I can see
where you're coming from in modern day education. It sounded
like he wanted to just give them a different way
to learn rather than the traditional school system. Kind of
was the overarching theme. Now, I'll have more on this
when I go back for the family trip in May,
but this is where you come in this morning, because
(03:18):
I don't want to approach this on it. I want
to be curious about it. And when I'm sitting across
from him and we're sharing a beer on his patio
and I asked him questions about it, and I want
to be there as a young like as a little
sister and as an aunt, I don't want to be judgmental.
So have you ever been homeschooled? Are you homeschooling right now?
What do I say to this man? Five one, three,
(03:40):
seven four nine one oh seven one? Or talk back
with Tiff on the iHeartRadio op. The microphone is in
the top right hand corner. If you don't feel like calling,
you can leave.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Me voice notes. Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You're waking up with TIF in the morning on at
Kiss one oh seven one. When did you realize that
your kids were smarter than you?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh? When I was helping my kid with his homework
and I gave him the wrong answers and he insisted
I was wrong, and then he got a seat on
his homework. So, yeah, Mommy's not as smart as her son.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's what I was trying to tell my brother.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Thank you for the first of all, thank you for
the talkback with tiff an alternative way to contribute outside
of our phone lines. The microphone is in the top
right hand corner of the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
If you want to leave me a talk back this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The reason why we're chit chatting this, that's like another
reason I want to tell my brother. He called me
maybe two weeks ago and said that he was going
to start homeschooling his kids, and I wanted you were
going on a family trip in May, and I wanted
to be able to sit across from him and you know,
support him and be a little bit more curious rather
than judgmental. But that was one of my first thoughts.
(04:45):
I was like, are you even capable of teaching your kids?
I wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, I think there's a moment every parent's life
where your kid fixes the printer. And my son, he's nine,
he fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The printer, and I was like, oh, doomed. We're totally doomed.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's how old my nephew is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
By the way, the two kids that are gonna be
homeschool this is Massachusetts. By the way, if you ought
to be a part of some family drama, one is
nine and one is eleven, you're telling me that you're
going to be able to teach a middle school person
core math. My best friend Ashley is a teacher, and
I was like, what do you mean they've changed math.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I thought my Kim was smarter than me when he
got into calculus. You know, you have to qualify for that,
and I was always horrible at math.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right who knows, maybe he's onto something. Good Morning.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're just a few minutes out from the three things
you need to know to get your day started in
since we'll talk about Pete Rose, but first, good morning,
you're on the air.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Good morning. I have a lot of thoughts on the
homeschool question. If you'd like to hear.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The yes, please help.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Okay, So, as a former educator, I used to be
a high school teacher, there is a lot of benefits
to home schooling. Homeschooling kids and also kids that come
from a pretty non traditional school to begin with, and
so if your brother is able to provide them the
tension that they need. There are so many resources out
there to help homeschool kids, and there's a lot of
(06:15):
co ops so that they get that social aspect of it. Okay,
So four kids that come from a pretty non traditional
school to begin with. Homeschool is actually a really good option.
And I've have tutored kids as well as been friends
with kids that have been homeschooled, and they do really well.
It's just making sure that they have the correct resources
in place.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, what's your name, what neighborhood you call me from.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm Diana from Mount Healthy, Diana.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This is a really good take. I appreciate you. I
guess I'm just caught up on the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Fact that I'm like, I'm like, are you going to
be able to teach them core math? Because I don't
know you have a friend in their thirties or early
forties that, yeah, that you would trust like to teach
your kids.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I wouldn't do I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So I actually I taught math, and so that is
my specialty. But the thing about I don't want to
get into the nuances of reformath, but the resources, the
resources that are available actually teach that and it is
actually a much better way to teach math in a
lot of traditional sets.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, thank you so much for the call, my gal.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This will make me a little bit more equipped to
have a good family conversation when I see my brother
in May, I do appreciate that. And you know what,
maybe these kids will be able to actually balance a checkbook,
you know, or like know how to buy a house,
or know what a mutual fund is because we didn't
learn that into school. Give me three minutes, I'll have
the three things you need to know to get your
day started.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
In SINSI
You're waking up with fifth in the morning. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What would your gut reaction be if someone looked at you,
someone in your life that you're close with, looked at
you and said, no judgment on this gut reaction, I'm
going to start homeschooling my kids.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, you and I most likely would have a similar
gut reaction.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You want to be a part of some tea that
has like literally nothing to do with you, small town
drama that you can be. You know, you can be
a fly on the wall for sometimes it's a good feeling,
right you have no stake in the game, so you're like, sure,
why not? This has to do with my family. My
brother called me if he didn't know. This is not
to get like too deep into my family tree, but
I have two half brothers, a half sister, and a
(00:46):
step sister. My oldest half brother called me because I'm
getting ready for a family trip in May, and he's,
you know, he wanted to know about my dad's estate.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You guys were all a part of that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And then he's catching me up and the tea and
he goes, I've decided that I'm gonna start homeschooling my kids.
And I would try to heard not to be judgmental
about it and approach it from a more curious angle,
which you know that's my style anyways, although like it's hard,
it's hard not to be judgmental on this topic because
(01:20):
am I wrong for thinking?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And this is where I'm super naive on this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So I'm this, I'm gonna be leaning on you a
little bit because I'm gonna need some help heading into
this family trip. So I'm like, I'm checked into the
right place, you know, and I want to come from
a from a good place.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But when I think of the homesschold kids, I think
of like the weird, like the horse girl. Right, am
I wrong?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And so I was like, Oh, explain to me a
little bit more where you're coming from with this. By
the way, for context purposes, there's an eleven year old
and a nine year old and the previous schooling that
they've had has been like kind of monissory. I'm pretty
sure they went to a one hundred percent outdoor school.
I didn't know that those exist. Again, this is in
(02:05):
New England, by the way, I should have prefaced this.
This is a Massachusetts thing. This is what we're doing
up in Massachusetts sent them to a school that was
like completely outside, kind of jealous as somebody that is
an aquarius and loves nature and such. And that school
is getting ready to end, right They're aging out of that,
and so he's deciding do I send them to a
traditional public middle school, some sort of private school, or
(02:27):
do I just homeschool them. Now I've heard, and this
is where you're gonna come into. I've heard that homeschooling
has gotten way better. His reasoning was pretty interesting behind it,
and not to share some of his personal thoughts on
the radio, but you know, since it's just you and
I this morning, he wants to have a little bit
more control over what they're exposed to until they are
(02:50):
at a better age to make good decisions for themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
One side of that is like, well are you sheltering them?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And the other side of that is, I can see
where you're coming from in modern day education. It sounded
like he wanted to just give them a different way
to learn rather than the traditional school system. Kind of
was the overarching theme. Now, I'll have more on this
when I go back for the family trip in May,
but this is where you come in this morning, because
(03:18):
I don't want to approach this on it. I want
to be curious about it. And when I'm sitting across
from him and we're sharing a beer on his patio
and I asked him questions about it, and I want
to be there as a young like as a little
sister and as an aunt, I don't want to be judgmental.
So have you ever been homeschooled? Are you homeschooling right now?
What do I say to this man? Five one, three,
(03:40):
seven four nine one oh seven one? Or talk back
with Tiff on the iHeartRadio op. The microphone is in
the top right hand corner. If you don't feel like calling,
you can leave.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Me voice notes. Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You're waking up with TIF in the morning on at
Kiss one oh seven one. When did you realize that
your kids were smarter than you?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh? When I was helping my kid with his homework
and I gave him the wrong answers and he insisted
I was wrong, and then he got a seat on
his homework. So, yeah, Mommy's not as smart as her son.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's what I was trying to tell my brother.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Thank you for the first of all, thank you for
the talkback with tiff an alternative way to contribute outside
of our phone lines. The microphone is in the top
right hand corner of the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
If you want to leave me a talk back this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The reason why we're chit chatting this, that's like another
reason I want to tell my brother. He called me
maybe two weeks ago and said that he was going
to start homeschooling his kids, and I wanted you were
going on a family trip in May, and I wanted
to be able to sit across from him and you know,
support him and be a little bit more curious rather
than judgmental. But that was one of my first thoughts.
(04:45):
I was like, are you even capable of teaching your kids?
I wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, I think there's a moment every parent's life
where your kid fixes the printer. And my son, he's nine,
he fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The printer, and I was like, oh, doomed. We're totally doomed.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's how old my nephew is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
By the way, the two kids that are gonna be
homeschool this is Massachusetts. By the way, if you ought
to be a part of some family drama, one is
nine and one is eleven, you're telling me that you're
going to be able to teach a middle school person
core math. My best friend Ashley is a teacher, and
I was like, what do you mean they've changed math.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I thought my Kim was smarter than me when he
got into calculus. You know, you have to qualify for that,
and I was always horrible at math.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right who knows, maybe he's onto something. Good Morning.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're just a few minutes out from the three things
you need to know to get your day started in
since we'll talk about Pete Rose, but first, good morning,
you're on the air.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Good morning. I have a lot of thoughts on the
homeschool question. If you'd like to hear.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The yes, please help.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Okay, So, as a former educator, I used to be
a high school teacher, there is a lot of benefits
to home schooling. Homeschooling kids and also kids that come
from a pretty non traditional school to begin with, and
so if your brother is able to provide them the
tension that they need. There are so many resources out
there to help homeschool kids, and there's a lot of
(06:15):
co ops so that they get that social aspect of it. Okay,
So four kids that come from a pretty non traditional
school to begin with. Homeschool is actually a really good option.
And I've have tutored kids as well as been friends
with kids that have been homeschooled, and they do really well.
It's just making sure that they have the correct resources
in place.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, what's your name, what neighborhood you call me from.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I'm Diana from Mount Healthy, Diana.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This is a really good take. I appreciate you. I
guess I'm just caught up on the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Fact that I'm like, I'm like, are you going to
be able to teach them core math? Because I don't
know you have a friend in their thirties or early
forties that, yeah, that you would trust like to teach
your kids.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I wouldn't do I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So I actually I taught math, and so that is
my specialty. But the thing about I don't want to
get into the nuances of reformath, but the resources, the
resources that are available actually teach that and it is
actually a much better way to teach math in a
lot of traditional sets.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, thank you so much for the call, my gal.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This will make me a little bit more equipped to
have a good family conversation when I see my brother
in May, I do appreciate that. And you know what,
maybe these kids will be able to actually balance a checkbook,
you know, or like know how to buy a house,
or know what a mutual fund is because we didn't
learn that into school. Give me three minutes, I'll have
the three things you need to know to get your
day started.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
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