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Die Hard Homeschooler

September 22, 2025 / 01:00

This episode discusses homeschooling experiences, focusing on the speaker's journey from K through 12 education at home. Key topics include parental motivations, curriculum choices, and personal reflections on the homeschooling process.

The speaker shares insights into their homeschooling background, mentioning that their parents were both public schooled and decided to try homeschooling as a new approach. They describe themselves as the firstborn and a "guinea pig" for this educational experiment.

A specific curriculum, "The Well-Trained Mind," is highlighted as a favorite of the speaker's mother, who finds it valuable for homeschooling. The speaker expresses interest in potentially using this curriculum if they choose to homeschool their own child in the future.

TLDR

A speaker reflects on their K-12 homeschooling experience and curriculum choices.

Episode

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I was homeschooled K through 12 whole way die hard since day one. Um I didn't do

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any side of any kind of outside schooling really um until college. Um well I took VC classes um during high

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school as well but it's still college. Um but started off with my mom just really wanting to homeschool and give it

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a try. Um, both my parents were public schooled, so it wasn't something that

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they had experience with. Um, but they thought, you know, hey, this will be kind of a fun thing to try out. And I'm

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the firstborn, so guinea pig. Um, >> yeah. >> But they decided they wanted to do it.

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My mom really loves the like curriculum, the um guide, the well-trained mind, which is like a book on stuff. And I

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don't know, I it the uh importance eludes me, but but um I know my mom really loves it and she swears by it.

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So, if we homeschool, if me and my husband homeschool our daughter one day, I'll probably look into it

Episode Highlights

The Firstborn Guinea Pig
Reflecting on being the first child to experience homeschooling.
“I’m the firstborn, so guinea pig.”
@ 00m 35s
September 22, 2025

Episode Quotes

This will be kind of a fun thing to try out.
Die Hard Homeschooler
My mom really loves the curriculum, the well-trained mind.
Die Hard Homeschooler

Key Moments

Parental Decisions00:32
Curriculum Love00:43