Ep 2: The Day Is Shorter Than You Think

Your six-year-old finished everything in ninety minutes and you are standing in your kitchen feeling like a fraud. That feeling is the most common feeling in a first-year homeschool, and it is aimed at completely the wrong thing.

This is part of 13 Things We’d Tell a Brand-New Homeschool Mom — thirteen short episodes marking thirteen years of the Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

In this episode

• Why a six-hour school day was never six hours of teaching
• Rough hours by age, from early elementary through high school
• Why one-on-one instruction is so much denser than a classroom
• The real risk: stretching a good twenty-minute lesson into an argument
• What to do with the rest of the day, and why it may be the most educational part

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Our Sweet 13 sponsors

This episode is sponsored by Eden’s Table — Biblical herbalism for the elementary grades. One plant a week, with science, history, art, reading and handwriting running through it as a single unit study. Open and go, no prep the night before. The first nine weeks are $39.

This episode is sponsored. We only take sponsors we would point our own families to.