Well This Wasn't The Plan!

33. We Hired A Sitter To Help Us Homeschool

Send us Fan Mail We crawl out of tax season, admit why the podcast went quiet, and share how hiring a sitter became the simplest way to keep work and homeschooling from

32. The Week That Made Us Question Homeschooling

Send us Fan Mail Homeschooling didn’t break us, but tax season almost did. When you’re two full-time working parents, the hard days don’t look like a cute worksheet mome

31. Options For Working Parents Who Want To Homeschool

Send us Fan Mail A rapid-fire list of realistic ways to keep working while you homeschool • our long planning runway before homeschooling and why we tested changes for

30. Working With ADHD Instead of Against It: Our Words of Advice

Send us Fan Mail • early ADHD signs we notice first, especially screen hyperfocus and the crash afterward  • why teachers see a people pleaser while we see meltdowns at

29. Taking Away Recess as Punishment: Should It Be Illegal?

Send us Fan Mail We share big podcast news, a new homeschool guide we built for working parents, and what our week looks like when the kids stay with grandparents during

28. Capable Kids: Chores and Homeschooling

Send us Fan Mail We juggle tax season, a broken leg, and a new homeschool rhythm while trying to build a house where everyone contributes. We share the chore routines th

27. A 10-Year-Old Explains Why Homeschool Works (After 4 Years in Public School)

Send us Fan Mail We ask Saylor—the spark behind our homeschool switch—to answer your questions about slow mornings, ADHD-friendly learning, real social time, sports, scr

26. Public School Reality From A Teacher - Part 2

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Megan, a public school teacher preparing to homeschool, about curriculum realities, the third-grade shift to screens, the limits of standar

25. Why A Public School Teacher Chose Homeschool And What She Wants Every Parent To Know

Send us Fan Mail We bring on Megan, a Texas elementary instructional specialist and former classroom teacher, who explains why she’s leaving the classroom to homeschool

24. Our Homeschool Curriculum and Why We Love It

Send us Fan Mail We share how we chose our homeschool curriculum and the pros and cons! • why pencil-and-paper  • how open-and-go lessons cut prep to zero • placement t

23. What Surprised Us the Most About Homeschool

Send us Fan Mail We share what shocked us about homeschooling as two full-time working parents: the time it takes, how fast kids learn one-on-one, and why our home feels

22. 2026 Goals + Keeping the Kids Busy While We Work!

Send us Fan Mail We trade the post-holiday slump for a simple “goals time” system that gives our kids clear daily reps and gives us reliable work blocks. Short, intentio

21. Technology in Schools and Education

Send us Fan Mail We push past holiday overload to unpack a big question: what happens when schools move all work onto screens, and what do kids lose along the way.  • s

20. We finished our FIRST semester homeschooling + working!!!

Send us Fan Mail We finish our first semester of homeschooling and share what worked, what didn’t, and how we balanced real jobs with real learning. Honest wins, hard pi

19. Bumps in The Road

Send us Fan Mail A holiday road trip, a house full of flu, and deadlines stacking up—then the realization that our “get back on track” grind was making everything worse.

18. Homeschool, Holidays, and Why This Year Feels Different

Send us Fan Mail We unpack why we chose homeschool over private school, how we juggle work with learning, and what actually changed in our home life. From winter routine

17. Leaving Public School the Million Little Reasons Why (Replay)

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE RERUN FOR THANKSGIVING BREAK! We walk through the million little reasons we left public school to homeschool three kids while running a busines

16. Life Skills We're Working On: Part 2!

Send us Fan Mail We share how better sleep, steady routines, and clear expectations made our homeschool days calmer and our evenings useful. Then we dive into kid goal s

15. Life Skills We're Teaching Our Kids - Part 1

Send us Fan Mail We share the life skills that we get to teach now that we homeschool! Wins, stumbles, templates, and the small habits that build real responsibility. •

14. Our Public School Betrayal List

Send us Fan Mail We faced these issues head-on after years in public school with our three kids. Two full-time working parents, zero plans to homeschool, and a growing l