Most parents think a great education means getting straight A’s...

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and getting into the right college… but my wife would argue that the most important thing we’re teaching our kids has nothing to do with academics… and in a world of A.I. & Identity politics I’d have to agree.

After 6 years of building a location independent business and my wife spending years becoming a psychotherapist and learning about Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf Education … When I woke up this morning and saw all of that hard work my wife has put in to create the classroom for our daughters first day of Grade 1... I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry a little.

We chose the hard path…

it wasn’t fast, easy or comfortable …

but being able to homeskool and soon to worldskool has always been our family’s north star goal and in order to create it we’ve had to overcome a bunch of challenges:

1️⃣ The Location independence challenge: Finding a way to build my own business that allowed me to work from anywhere, on my own schedule

2️⃣ The Money Challenge: Creating enough income to support our household so my wife didn’t have to work and could invest in our kids and learning how to homeskool and create this amazing environment

3️⃣. The Time Challenge: The ridiculous amount of hours it took in the beginning to get the business of the ground and then learning how to buy back my time both in the business and in our household

4️⃣. The Relational Challenge: Many times both of feeling misunderstood, under-appreciated and disconnected.

And as we get to our daughters first day 1 of Grade one I’m feeling so proud and grateful for my wife and that we chose the hard path together and made it here.

This is what we’ve been working towards and she has created such a beautiful space for our kids to learn and grow and become whole humans. Where we can protect their childhood while fostering their imagination and creativity. Where we get to create the freedom for them to learn at their natural pace and development stage.

Before you think I'm suggesting everyone should homeschool (I'm not), let me be clear: the real message here isn't about where your kids learn … it's really just about being intentional with the choices you make for your family, whatever those choices might be. and this was ours.

We had to overcome our own paradigms and thinking around homeskooling … it’s already been and no-doubt will continue to be an excellent personal development path for us both … sure our kids are getting an education… but so are we.

❌ I used to think homeschooling might mean our kids would be isolated and become weird in public… Nope. Our oldest is literally the most emotionally intelligent and attuned, thoughtful kid I’ve ever met (maybe a bit biased but whatever - she is) a big part of that is because my wife is so good at building community.

❌ I used to think both parents had to work full time to afford a good life… I just had a small “programmed” idea of what’s actually possible in terms of creating and generating income and Skool has been a big part in helping me unlearn and build a business of freedom.

Maybe the real benefit of choosing to homeschool is not just who our kids become in the process… but who their parents become.

I think my wife should create a skool community that teaches parents how to homeschool and shares her curriculums as she builds it… What do you think?

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