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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told

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Speaker 1: You from housetop works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline, and today we

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Speaker 1: are getting around finally to the topic of home schooling.

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Speaker 1: And I say finally because A people have requested this

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Speaker 1: references throughout the history of Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: about my homeschooling past. For a little refresher course for

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Speaker 1: folks out there who don't know. I was homeschooled from

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Speaker 1: second through eighth grade, and I'm living to tell the tale.

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Speaker 1: Do tell the people need to know. I mean I

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Speaker 1: I I really enjoyed it when I was a kid.

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Speaker 1: It was super fun. Uh My mom home schooled me

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Speaker 1: as well two of my older siblings, and they were

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Speaker 1: actually homeschooled through high school. I was kind of gratefully

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Speaker 1: like sent to a traditional high school. Uh. Middle school

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Speaker 1: but it was. It was great. I mean, my mom

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Speaker 1: was a training teacher. She would essentially give us assignments.

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Speaker 1: It was very self directed. We would have a couple

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Speaker 1: did well in traditional school, graduated from college. I would

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Speaker 1: say that I am. I hope my mom is listening

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Speaker 1: to this. I think I could say a homeschooling success.

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Speaker 1: You know I didn't. I turned out weird, but not

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Speaker 1: too weird that I can't talk to people because there

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Speaker 1: are all of these stereotypes about homeschoolers and how they

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Speaker 1: have horrible social skills. And I'm not gonna lie. You

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Speaker 1: uh some socialization gaps there. Well, do you think it

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Speaker 1: helped you in college? Study in college, for all those

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Speaker 1: I would stay in my The biggest thing that I

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Speaker 1: could knock that stuff out. Studying for tests, yes, The

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Speaker 1: one thing I had to learn how to do was

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Speaker 1: remember someone teaching me how to highlight in books. I

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Speaker 1: enough about me, uh, or do you want more about me? Well?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you can definitely add a

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Speaker 1: because we're going to talk about kind of the history

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