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I don't claim to know anything about homeschooling, so I set out on a journey to ask the people who do! Join me as I chat with homeschoolers to discuss; "why are people homeschooling," "what are all the ways people are using to homeschool today," and ultimately, "should I homeschool my kids?"
The Homeschool How To
#112: How a Single Mom Left the Corporate Life to Start a Business and Homeschool
The leap from corporate security to homeschooling freedom isn't just possible—it's transformative. Taylor proves this as she takes us through her journey from corporate employee to homeschooling entrepreneur during the unexpected blessing of COVID.
"I was giving all my time to a corporation who showed during COVID that I was very replaceable," Taylor reflects, describing the awakening that led her to prioritize family over financial certainty. As a single mother of two at the time, she faced skepticism from all sides but followed her conviction that traditional schooling wasn't right for her children.
The most profound shift in Taylor's approach came when she liberated herself from traditional education models. "It became so overwhelming where it almost scared me away," she admits about her early attempts at structured homeschooling. When she embraced a more intuitive, child-led approach, everything changed. Suddenly, making breakfast became a lesson in measurements, garage time with dad turned into engineering class, and family travel transformed into immersive geography studies.
Now married with three children (including a 9-month-old), Taylor and her husband combine their entrepreneurial work building off-road vehicles with a travel-focused education. Their family surfs, explores, and learns together—proving that education doesn't require classrooms or credentials, just commitment and creativity.
Taylor's story demonstrates that homeschooling doesn't demand perfection or wealth—just the courage to prioritize what matters most. Ready to reimagine education for your family? This conversation might be your first step toward a more connected, purposeful learning journey.
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Welcome to this week's episode of the Homeschool How-To. I'm Cheryl and I invite you to join me on my quest to find out why are people homeschooling, how do you do it, how does it differ from region to region, and should I homeschool my kids? Stick with me as I interview homeschooling families across the country to unfold the answers to each of these questions week by week. Welcome, and with us today I have Taylor Duggs. For some reason, I thought it was Dugan, is it Duggs? The Duggs is the sort. Okay, because then online it's Tay Duggs. I was like maybe she's a rapper, I don't know. But Taylor, right, correct. Yes, welcome, taylor. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for having me. What state are you in? We are in California. California, oh geez. So yeah, I'm in the equivalent on the East Coast here of New York, so where we're both like in great states, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So how long have you been?
Speaker 2:homeschooling.
Speaker 1:So my oldest is fourth grade, so about five years, and was it a COVID thing, or you know what actually got you into homeschooling in the first place?
Speaker 2:You know it was a little bit of COVID. But from the get I was like I don't, I'm not comfortable putting my kids into public school, and then COVID kind of helped solidify, like okay, we're not doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was a blessing in disguise.
Speaker 1:You know it really was. I know that some people had awful times with COVID, but I have so much to thank. I really can't think of other than maybe some friendships lost.
Speaker 1:But it's like, um, we didn't, we weren't going to say it was night eye but, um, you know, other than that, it was like it opened my eyes to so many things that I I would have still been working in the cubicle for the government and sending my kids to public school and doing the rat race and just to give everything to taxes at the end of the day. Um, but so it was funny cause I was looking back through kind of some messages that you had sent me over time and you know you were talking about how you are trying to get more into the holistic lifestyle which I'm doing as well. My family is not that way and when, especially when you're dealing with, like mother-in-laws and people that are, you know, they're so kind to watch your kids for you when you need them, but then it's like yeah, I need them to like Charlie and the chocolate chemical factories.
Speaker 1:So how has that been? What kind of like? Were you always holistic, or was this kind of new for you too?
Speaker 2:Um, you know, COVID, like I said, was a huge blessing. I decided to quit my corporate job during COVID and, you know, went the homeschool route. I became an entrepreneur where I was able to stay at home with the kids and kind of just make it work and it allowed me to, you know, find lots of different rabbit holes to go down, and so I started doing a lot of research and, you know, just learning a lot. So, around COVID was when, you know, I really started to open my eyes to what was really going on and the things that you know. I was, you know, in the grocery store, you know, wanting to buy the kids and things of that nature. So it's been a journey, for sure.
Speaker 1:Reading labels and has it created some butting of heads with the family, like they don't understand why you're now reading labels or don't want your kids to have.
Speaker 2:You know goldfish and cheetos and yeah, uh, you know we travel a lot. We're never in one place for very long, so we're only around family here and there, which makes it a lot easier to navigate. But you know it is a struggle when we're around family because you know what grandma doesn't want to cook, you know for their kids and feed them all these recipes that you know they've known forever. And so we navigate it. And, you know, try to keep the peace as much as we can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, uh. Well, I mean, in my case, like, for instance, yesterday we were at my mother's house and she had goldfish that she had bought from the dollar store. So I mean, at least your side is cooking, my mom's getting some like a hand-me-down goldfish bioengineered, but so okay, so your oldest is in. Fourth, how many kids do you have?
Speaker 2:We have three, so we have a. Okay, so your oldest is in fourth. How many kids do you have? We have three, so we have a. Oh man, they just had birthdays, so I have to keep their ages straight A 10 year old, a seven year old and a nine month old.
Speaker 1:Oh, congratulations, thank you. So how hard was it to quit the corporate job? I know for me that was the bigger hurdle than deciding just to homeschool. It was like uh, and I know you don't always have to leave a job or you know you can find other ways to make income. But leaving the government job that I had just known for 16 years, and just that's where I saw, okay, I'm going to retire from here and have my pension, we have my health insurance, we have my good pay and my nights and weekends off, that was the hardest part for me. How hard was it for you to leave the corporate world?
Speaker 2:It was. It was a very difficult um step to take. I spent a lot of time, you know, wondering if am I crazy? You know everyone around me was telling me you're crazy, you have two kids. At the time I was a single mom, so they told me it was even crazier to do. But it it was once I was able to sit down and, you know, silence, all the noise around me. Nothing, nothing else made sense. You know, um, I was giving all my time to a corporation who really showed during COVID that I was very replaceable and they didn't, you know, give two cares in the world about me unless I was clocked in. And so, you know, family became a huge priority. And, you know, once I was there, mentally it was easier to walk away, but it took some time to really like we're doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, for me too it took probably a two year, like really talking myself through it and I still was like no, I'm never going to leave a government job Like people just don't do that. Nobody did that. There might've been one, there were. Well, there were a couple people that were like I can't sit in these cubicles any longer and they like came into the state and, you know, left within a year or had kids and left to stay home with the kids, but that was few and far between, but more so what I saw was these people in their you know fifties and sixties just counting down the days to retirement and then it's almost like retirement comes and they don't really know what do I want to leave.
Speaker 1:It was almost like it was the excitement of counting down until when they could be free and then, like the in Shawshank redemption, when the guy leaves jail, he like commits a crime to go back to prison because that was comfortable for him, he had, he didn't know what to do on the outside and I'm like, wow, do I really want to end up like these people? So, yeah, I agree, it takes such a time to get there and I have a lot of people that will reach out to me and be like oh, I love to homeschool, but I can't. I'm a single mom. It's like how did you even make that work financially and with, like the time, just, you know, being home with your kids? I know homeschooling does not take six hours a day, five days a week, but how did you financially and logistically make that work If you're comfortable talking about it.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I was flying by the seat of my pants, if we're being completely honest. It was hard at first but, honestly, just having a strong faith and knowing that you know what I'm doing, there's so much merit behind it that you know God is going to provide and make things work. As long as I'm 100 percent committed and you know, 110 percent in this and my heart is in this you know we'll make it work. And I was a new entrepreneur, I had just started a business. So, you know, some days the bank account was looking really scary. But you know, we were all together at home making it work and, you know, just being with them day in and day out.
Speaker 2:I didn't, I didn't have an option to not make it work. So we, we did what we could and, um, the client started to pick up and I'm like, okay, we're, we're getting this, you know, um. And then, you know, being a single mom and an entrepreneur, sometimes the homeschool took a very big back seat because we were just trying to get through day by day. But we're, we're better now. We're making it work. Um, having my husband in the picture now has been a huge blessing. Um, and honestly, you know, god got me through all this. I don't. I wish I could, you know, elaborate more, but man we made it work.
Speaker 1:That's perfect. And yeah, did you? Did you start a business that was similar to what you were doing in the corporate world?
Speaker 2:No, so while I was working in corporate, you know I was dabbling on the side. You know I was going to the the nine to five and then I was coming home and doing the six to 12, you know, working on my business from home. So it was it's completely opposite.
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Speaker 2:my business is graphic designing and printing, you know, helping other small businesses, youth, sports teams, things of that nature. So it was a complete 180 and had to, you know, learn a whole new skill set and just dove in.
Speaker 1:So you know. What's interesting about that, too, is you. Did you go to school for graphic design? I did not.
Speaker 2:No, I've always, I've always been a creative and it's always, you know, kind of come natural.
Speaker 1:But no, I did not, but you were able to learn it enough to start it and learn how to start a business and run a business and do all the ins and outs of the graphic design without the degree. Like that's huge, isn't that? So telling for why your kids can be homeschooled and like we can all make that work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. I tried college so many times and kept going back to it and going back to it and I'm like I've got to get this piece of paper. I need it. My life depends on it, you know, and every time I'd be sitting in a classroom I'm like I can't do this. I'm learning. I'm learning all of this in the real world, at my real job. I already know all this and I'm doing it in real life. I don't need a paper to tell me that I can do this or that, to validate that I can do this. So I didn't. I didn't make it through college.
Speaker 1:But I mean, even right there, that's telling you couldn't make it through the classes but yet you can be a successful business owner with having children and homeschooling them. Three kids, I mean it's just. It blows my mind the more I submerge myself in hearing people's stories like how silly it is to waste our time in school and especially college. Obviously, there are some careers that it's relevant for, but the more and more that I see now it's more you can learn it on your own. You can read books, you can watch movies, websites, whatever, or you can just go get the hands-on experience. So, um, it is. I see it changing. I hope it's going to change so that people don't have to come out of debt at 22 or 24 years old and like be a slave to the system because, oh, it's just, it's gotten bad, but now OK. So we talked about kind of how you left your job and and making it work like as so your job, you can work from home. Making it work like as so your job, you can work from home, yes, yes. So that's beautiful. And how hard is it like I'm with you on that some days. The homeschool just like, like your homeschool, is that we made breakfast. That's the homeschool it's, you know, and and sometimes they're just in front of the screens entirely too much. But I look at it as OK if I can get sort of a business up and running now to a place where it doesn't take up quite as much time later when they do need me for maybe the field trips, the harder tasks or subjects that we're going to sit down and work on together when they're six and two. Yes, there's play and we do play groups and and go places and see friends, but um, as far as book work, I really don't concentrate a whole lot on. I try to make sure I read to them every day. It will throw some math in there, but a lot of times it's just in the car when we're on our way to a play date or somewhere. It's okay. Well, what time is it? What does the map say for? How much longer it's going to take to get there? What time did we leave? Well, what's the difference in that, like how much time went by? And you know where's the sun in the sky right now? Can you figure out if we're headed east or west, or north or south? And you know just the conversation, and I think that does wonders. We just think of homeschooling as okay, we get these curriculums that we researched and have to do them every day for 90 minutes and there's our homeschool. Once you kind of just get like confident enough, I guess that like they're going to be okay.
Speaker 1:Yes, you can pull back the reins on it. Like when I just think of what I learned in school and I was talking to another mom yesterday at a play date and she agreed with me like what I learned in school was so minimal and like didn't stick anyway, I didn't retain any of it. I one thing I remember from college, a business law class, and the guy said if you propose, make sure it's not on a holiday, because if if you don't end up getting married, she can keep that ring. Sure, it's not on a holiday, because if you don't end up getting married, she can keep that ring if it's given on a holiday because it's a gift. And that's literally the only thing I remember. So when my nephew proposed to his girlfriend on her birthday, I was like don't do it on her birthday.
Speaker 1:That's actually excellent advice, but that's the only thing I remember, and I don't know why, I never read any of the books the Lord of the Flies, and they were probably all good books. I'm surprised that they actually had us read it, because it would be very telling of the future. But I didn't read any of them. I read like the first page and the last page of the book and I still managed to get by. I think what I learned in school and I remember thinking this in college is oh, all you have to do is show up, and that's the same thing for the government work that I did Probably a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1:You just got to show up Like they don't care what you do when you're there. They're not going to fail you in school. If you show up every day, they're not going to fail you. You know, and there were classes, I failed every test, but they're like. Well, we see that you came, so here's a D and and work is the same way. They're like oh well, she shows up, so she's. She's doing better than 60% of the other employees.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know I think that was the hardest thing is starting homeschool and probably the the thing I struggled with the most is breaking away from that. You know, in doctrine mindset of where they have to be doing, you know be able to spell all these words and you know do all these different things and they have to do all their book work and it became so overwhelming where it almost scared me away from the process and it took a lot for me to. You know they call it like the unschooling. It took a lot for me to get there. It took a lot for me to get there where, once I did it totally took the pressure off. Where, like you said, you know we're making breakfast this morning, you're going to learn how to make some eggs and pancakes and you'll practice your measurements and we're not going to burn the kitchen down. So we're learning responsibility and you know different things like that. It made it so much more enjoyable when I was able to get out of my own head and be like, okay, it doesn't have to be this hard. Like you don't have to have a lesson plan and abide. Like you're not a teacher, you don't need to have a lesson plan, you're not responsible for 30 kids, that you have to have the structure, not responsible for 30 kids, that you have to have the structure. You know I'm flying by the seat of my pants, so that's how we're going to homeschool. There's I can't do the lesson plans, like all of that scared me so much and it it took the joy out of it. I was like I don't want to homeschool anymore. Um, so when I finally got to that point of you know like we don't need to do this, get out of your own head. Let's just, you know, have fun and let the kids lead.
Speaker 2:That has been my favorite part is just kind of letting them lead and the questions that they come up with. I'm like, well, how did you even think of this? Like what it's perplexing to be like? Well, how did you even think of this? Like what what it's perplexing to be like? Well, they were just sitting in the car. It was quiet for a minute. I'm like, oh, why is it so quiet back there? And then they, they have this like profound question that comes out and you're just like, wow, what? Where?
Speaker 1:did that come from? You're so right, and that happens too. And I have no genius for a child. I love the kid and he is so smart when it comes to like mechanic stuff, but the reading and the spelling and no, sometimes I'm like we should really get you tested for dyslexia. There's so many backwards numbers here, but. But the thing is is, um, yes, when, when they have enough time to be bored and just to think of things, the questions that come out of his mouth. He told yes, when, when they have enough time to be bored and just to think of things, the questions that come out of his mouth. He told me something today he was making eggs. He's six and he was mom, look at the really big bubble, because we heat the pan and then he throws a little water in there and if they're bubbles and they're bouncing around, it's hot enough to put the butter in and then the eggs. So he's like mom, look at the big bubble. I'm like, oh, I wonder why it made like a really bigger one.
Speaker 1:And he goes into this whole thing. I have no idea if this is true or not, if he just made this up or if he really knew this. He's like well, there's like the combustion of dinner and he says, get into this whole thing about the. I was like, all right, well, I think you would have just won in a court of law. So that really again it's showing up and being like today you're teaching me is right. But you're right Because in school they almost don't have the time to be bored enough to think of the questions that they want to think of. That was another big thing for me too. I was like what would I do all day as a homeschooler? I don't even know what I like to do, let alone what am I going to do with my kid. But you find that when you remove all of the societal pressures of being here, there and everywhere, in school and at work you you have the time to figure out what you like to do, so that I mean that is just something so wonderful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've. They've really been able to grow into their own selves, with my husband and I both being entrepreneurs. You know my son loves to be in the garage building the off-roading trucks and you know, doing the welding and the tinkering, and my daughter loves to you know craft and draw and color, and you know they've just come into their own and it's beautiful to watch. And my son too. He is not into reading. If he despises reading letters and words together, he hates. And. But if you sit and let him, you know, give him some parts to tinker with, you know you'll come back and there'll be a robot built and you're like wow, and he can tell you all the features of the robot and how it communicates with the ether and you can trans, you can travel to different dimensions and you're just like whoa, all right, well, teach me today oh so okay, so you're married.
Speaker 1:Now how does that work with, like, the homeschooling where you're like we're going to get married, we might have more children and I'm homeschooling these guys probably your, any children we have too, was he on?
Speaker 2:board, yes, and I think that's probably one of the biggest things that attracted him my way is the, you know, that motherly role that I embodied and going 110% to really be there for the kids. And he's like I'm on board, let's go. You know, being a single mom, I touched on it a little bit where, you know, homeschool got put on the back burner more often than I'd like to admit because, you know, I was doing A through Z for the family. So when he came on board, it was like a sigh of relief where I was like okay, I have someone who wants to be a part of this and wants to, you know, help any way that he can.
Speaker 2:I found out that I'm not very good at teaching kids how to read, you know I just I can do the math, the science, you know all everything, but the reading, you know I was like, well, this letter says this, I don't know why or how, or the consonants and the vowel pairings. I don't know why. It's just that way and this is this is how it is that way and this is this is how it is. But because we had more time and we were able to, you know, divvy up the tasks, he was able to research why a vowel sandwiched between a consonant and this and that, all the different weird rules that the English language has.
Speaker 2:He was able to get the kids who were, you know, somewhat behind if you were to ask, you know a traditional school that they were looked upon as behind in their reading. He was able to make it work and spend the time and now they're exceptional readers and, you know, they'll read on their own and they enjoy it way more than when they were with me. So it's been amazing, you know, like what I lack, that's his strong suit and what he lacks is my strong suit. So it's just an amazing balance to have. And you know, kingston, my son, loves to be doing boy things, and so when they're doing boy things, I'm allowed, I'm able to, you know, do girl things with my daughter, and so it's just been a beautiful blessing for all of us. We've, you know, we're finding our rhythm and we're really, you know, making strides and we're really, we're really excited.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, that's awesome Now. So do you do any sort of formal curriculum? As being you were calling yourself an unschooler, but I guess I've learned too that that can mean that you still might have some sort of formal curriculum for like a reading or a math, but it is more child led when you do science or history or that sort of thing. So do you have any sort of system that you use right now?
Speaker 2:We do. So we have different curriculums. I I've never stuck to just one is. You know, I feel like sometimes they grow out of it or they get tired of of different things. So, uh, we've used a bunch of different curriculums, Um, but right now we're you know, I wanted something, as we're we're traveling a lot now, so I wanted something that you know is simple and easy to take on the road and some curriculum that you know, when we're in a long car ride or we're me and my husband are tied up doing some things in our business, that they can kind of just be self sufficient and work on their own. Hey, everyone.
Speaker 1:This is Cheryl. I want to thank you so much for checking out the podcast. I'm going to keep this short and sweet because I know your time is valuable. I want to ask you a serious question Do your kids know what to do to actually save their life in an emergency? The most important thing we can talk to our kids about is knowing their first and last name, knowing mom and dad's first and last name, mom's phone number, dad's phone number, their address, what to do if they get lost, what to do if someone who's watching them has a heart attack, a stroke, an accident, where they fall and your child needs to get help.
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Speaker 1:I have had multiple friends that have lost kids in tragedies and I don't want to see it happen again if it doesn't have to. We were at the fair over the summer and the first thing I said to my son when we walked through that gate was what's my first and last name, what is your first and last name and what is my phone number? And if you get lost, what are you going to do? You can get my book on amazon and I will put the link in my show's description again. It's called let's talk emergencies and I really hope you'll check it out because there's just no need to be scared when you can choose prepared and it's very simple, streamlined.
Speaker 2:you we're kind of hitting the science, history, math, you know your grammar and things of that nature. So we use a bunch of different books for different subjects and we kind of just go from there. We're focusing this year on a lot of geography, learning about the different places in the world as we're traveling. So they're really eager to learn about the different places and you know where we're visiting. They want to learn about all the different. You know the culture, the land, what's around. So they're really into geography, what's around? So they're really into geography. And then we're just doing you know very simple curriculum where they can do it on their own and we can come back and review it together and just makes everyone's lives a lot easier.
Speaker 1:What curriculum is that.
Speaker 2:So right now oh goodness For math, we're using Saxon math. We really like their workbooks because it's just basic math that they're learning. I should know all this just off the top of my head.
Speaker 1:What a wonderful, wonderful mom.
Speaker 2:That's okay. Yeah, I can definitely get back to you and you know, if you want to share those resources. We use rainbow resource to kind of look at all the different curriculum options. That one, so it's an online website and they have a ton of different ton of different curriculum that you can take a look at and then do your own research based on what you find there. They have a lot of different books, manipulatives that you can use to help with the learning, so we've enjoyed that. It's a quick, easy resource to use.
Speaker 1:Now, are you guys traveling for work or are you actually doing a sort of road schooling?
Speaker 2:A little of both. So my husband builds off-road trucks so we've kind of been doing an off-roading tour down south south. We're also big, avid surfers, so we hope to be doing a down south surf tour as well Once the baby's just a little bigger. So we we work and travel at the same time.
Speaker 1:Wow, we've that's so cool.
Speaker 2:We've made it work so that we we have an excuse to travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my husband actually had built a monster truck and it wasn't finished but it was like almost running and I made him sell it because I was like we had I think maybe we had had my son and I was like, if you haven't finished this in the 10 years before you had a kid, you're not to finish it after you have kids and nor are you going to have time to drive up and down the East Coast to race it and then fix everything that breaks on it. So he's still, and my son still yells at me to this day for being the reason that there is no monster truck in the garage, but he has lots of other toys. But so that's so funny that your husband builds off is. Is he building? Like, oh, is your baby okay?
Speaker 2:oh, she's just really crazy, just she around this time she just gets very vocal.
Speaker 1:I'll wrap up soon for you. But um yeah, is he doing like monster trucks or like side by side four wheeler?
Speaker 2:It's more of like SUVs for people to off road in. So he builds the SUV off road trucks, you know, puts the off roading suspension, the big off roading tires, you know, the roof racks and the overlanding equipment to to uh have people, you know, have fun out on the road and be able to take all their gear. And that's kind of how we're traveling right now is just kind of doing the overlanding journey, uh, with our, our pop-up camper. So it's been really fun. Oh, that is so cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have like a four seater side by side that we are hoping to get to like one of those off road parks the East Coast has a couple, I think like New Hampshire has some nice ones. We're gonna that's our goal to make it there. This year. We had the two seater, then we had our daughter, so we had two kids. So I made him sell the two seater, get the four seater. And now my son thinks he should just be driving his own four wheeler. So like I'm like, okay, we could have just kept the two seater, but a lot of those places I don't think they'll let six year old rides ride on their own anyway. So it's, it's okay. It's okay. But yes, what a fun little life. I did not grow up this way, I grew up in like this city, so this is all new to me, but it is fun.
Speaker 2:I have not surfed ever, but oh, that sounds cool too yes, yes, I grew up surfing, um, and so so did my husband as well, so now we're able to do it together, which is really fun. And do the kids do it? Uh, they are into snowboarding and, uh, skateboarding. Surfing is somewhat new to them, um, but I'm sure they'll be on a board catching some waves in no time.
Speaker 1:Oh fun Any last minute, like things that you wanted to make sure you touched upon while we chatted today.
Speaker 2:One thank you for having me on. I've really enjoyed this. Your platform is amazing. To be able to, you know, give hope and shed light to parents who feel like homeschooling is not in their means or that it's, you know, scary, or that you know they're not qualified to do it, to be able to bring the awareness that you are for so many people is the work of an angel. Quite frankly, I hope my goal, you know, on my social media, is to be able to spread awareness. And, you know, even if I can just touch some of my friends and let them know that, you know this is possible.
Speaker 2:I'm not making a killing as an entrepreneur by any means. Neither is my husband. You know. Our motto is still, we're flying by the seat of our pants, even as, you know, a unit, but we know that this is God's work, we are backed by him. And to be able to spend so much time with your kids, and even if you're you're working your nine to five man, you can still make it work and it's not as scary as you think. It can be very scary at first but, man, once you dive in, I would hope that you feel like I do and you'll never want to go back, and so I'm just very grateful to have come across your platform and to be able to share my little story. I hope you know can push someone over the edge, to, you know, make the leap of faith and to just jump into it.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. And thank you for being a listener and, you know, for even just reaching out and always, you know, just having a little quick chat, for even just reaching out and always, you know, just having a little quick chat. Um, I think that, yeah, that is so helpful for people because they think it has to look like your lesson planning on Sunday nights and this rigid schedule and that does work for some people. But today's modern day homeschooler and I think, the homeschoolers of the past, because there weren't schools up until recently, you know, last hundred- years 125 years.
Speaker 1:Um, you just taught your kids at home and you taught them what they needed to know to survive. And you spend time with your kids. You know it was like everybody was learning by doing, um, this whole like hey, let's get them into school. I, you know you can look extensively into the history of the education system. It's all about creating an obedient worker, not independent thinkers who can start their own business. And yeah, it's scary, but I agree with you.
Speaker 1:I have never once regretted leaving my job. In fact, there's just days that I'm like, wow, I'd still be sitting there right now If I hadn't woken up. I'd be sitting in a cubicle while somebody else is raising my kid and just being with my kid all day, like just knowing that the daycare had my kid longer for their waking hours than I did.
Speaker 1:It's and having seen that, like, like, as my son was in daycare and my daughter then wasn't, like seeing all the stuff in her that I missed. But I didn't know. I missed it with him because you don't know what, you don't know. Yes, like all the little things, just the little hugs that she needs throughout the day, or a comfort, or mommy's voice. Um, he didn't have that and I feel so bad, but that's all right. I mean you know he hasn't now, but and I feel so bad, but that's all right. I mean you know he hasn't now, but yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad that you know you got to share your story because I think that's people will think oh well, they can do it because it's a two parent household, they can do it because they have a lot of money, or they can do it because they have. You know they're very, they were a teacher so they know how to teach. But you know you didn't have any of that. A single mom who left her job to homeschool the kids. You know who was in the corporate world, not teaching. And look at, you're making it work and you guys are happier than ever. Yes, that's so inspirational to hear.
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