Parent Webinar - April 11, 2023
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by Doris Livingston who is the Parent Lead in Over Homeschooling Canada. Doris shares her story of how she became a homeschooler, her passion for homeschooling, and how she and her husband built a successful organization dedicated to protecting the education of their children.
Transcript
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all right we're just letting people in the room i see some familiar faces there
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and just to welcome back it's been about a year and a half uh since we were doing well not quite
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but the parent meetings we turned into taboo talks because i was doing about four meetings a week with
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business owners and uh you know employees and then the parents and just trying to pump out
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information and help people be as facilitated as possible in in protecting their jobs and their
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families and their kids and uh so in that time we have been growing action for canada we've been
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focused um on going to i just got asked oh yep sorry i was just taking a look at something
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we've been focused on as well our administration and bringing people on board to help manage the
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immense growth that we're having and of course building those chapters nationwide i'll show you
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an image of that in just a moment in that time as well um you know is really important because i was
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spreading myself pretty thin to be overseeing all these different groups i'm so happy to um also
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introduce uh doris livingston uh who is uh one of the parent leads and over homeschooling she comes
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with amazing qualifications to be here you know leading this uh particular topic on homeschooling
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today and so doris will you come on and say hello for a moment and then i'll do my bit of an
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introduction and then we'll get back to the homeschooling yeah you bet good stuff everybody
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can hear me okay yes awesome yeah my name's doris i live in uh the study okanagan of british
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columbia and um did you want me to do my presentation right now no just if you could tell a little bit
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about yourself and then i'll do the uh beginning presentation on the website and we'll go back to
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you for the homeschooling presentation okay yeah so i'll just give you a quick little bio um
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back in the late 80s i was already married my husband told me he told me we are going to
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homeschool our kids and i said what is that why do i need to do that and i think i turned out pretty good
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so i didn't see the need to homeschool until i started having my children in the 90s
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and um turned out to be the best decision ever we took it one year at a time under um an era where
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uh there was still hostility and uh we had to be sort of discreet and um there were lots of people
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homeschooling even ahead of me already but um we managed to get through that and push our way into
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the 2000s until all my kids graduated and uh so it's exploded i want to say over the last 20 years
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it has exploded right and for good reason right who wants to have their child if they had a choice
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in the uh well we would always say in the public school system but now we have to also include the
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private schools and it's really quite shocking uh the agenda that has uh pushed its way into the
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education system and something that we really want to emphasize today is that you know there was once
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upon a time where a lot of parents were pulling their kids out of the public education and putting
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them in private schools thinking that they could you know have a quality education for their children
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protect their children uh you know from all of the uh socialist type of uh propaganda that was coming
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into the public education but now we see that the private education is also uh being infiltrated uh
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by this agenda and so they're pressing in on homeschooling and so i always encourage that we need all
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parents on the front line with us uh fighting the globalization of our education system and the
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sexualization of our children and so tons of uh parents are exiting uh the school system
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and deciding to find ways to homeschool and it's very exciting uh because uh you know where there
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isn't registrations in the school system they either have to let teachers go they can't afford to
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keep the electricity going in the schools without those bums in those seats and uh so we are disrupting
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it it's really really critical that we get as many parents uh facilitated as possible to homeschool
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and uh i'll just talk a bit about that i'll just mention as well that's one of the reasons when i show
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you the chapters and how they're growing we're also uh dan vishan is on pastor dan and he is one of our
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leads with the pastoral support and we're also working with churches to open their doors to give
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homeschooling space and many pastors are stepping up and doing that as well so if it's a single
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mom or somebody who just you know doesn't have like has to work and can't be home we are trying
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as an organization to work with as many people as possible uh you know so that this can happen and uh
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yeah and at the same time pressing in on the education system to remove uh critical race theory
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climate change propaganda and of course the sexualization of our children and i think action
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for canada is doing a really phenomenal job uh we're hurting them bad and we're going to continue
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to do that because this is a fight for our kids all right so i'm just going to quickly go through
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a couple of pages uh maybe put in the chat if you're if if you've never heard of action for
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canada or maybe you have but when this is one of the first webinars you've been to we'd love to hear
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from you as well for parent meetings moving forward throw some of your ideas in the chat uh because
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we are here to serve canadians and uh we are very very intent on providing not only educating people
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but equipping them encouraging them and mobilizing them to be able to tangibly take action within their
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communities so this is a map of canada of course and all those beautiful little red maple leaves those
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are all action for canada chapters uh it took us about a year to get we were growing so fast we had to put a
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pause on it we got our administration like i say built up and uh this this map is going to fill up
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because we want to be in every town and city and then as well affect every election we got to be at
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all of those school board meetings we need all moms and dads to show up at the um uh sorry at the school
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board meetings and then at the municipal meetings as well but especially in in this group we need all
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parents on hand going to school board meetings and pressuring in and as well you know these are your
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tax dollars at work you are still paying in your taxes for uh kids in the system uh it's just brutal
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to to see what they're doing all right i just wanted to go here and if this is the action for canada
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chapter page if under join you see a per c chapters if you wanted to take a look and the reason i'm showing
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you this is i mentioned that everywhere we have a chapter we are asking a pastor to open his church
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so that chapter can meet there we're asking that pastor to help facilitate homeschooling and so it's
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really important that if a parent were to reach out to us and say i really want to homeschool my
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child and i'm in the calgary area well we would also connect you if we have a chapter uh there we
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would also connect you with the chapter because i say that we're building communities within
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communities of like-minded people who can support one another so you would click on your province
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and then you could scroll down and you could see if there's a chapter near you so that's why
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i keep encouraging all right now i'm going to go to that very important uh topic we call it the
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political lgbtq activism if you go to current issues you go down to the bottom you'll find the page
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and so i'm just going to show you where to access some of the information i would recommend that you
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watch either one or both of these videos it's very informative to show how this um lgbtq have been
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just hijacked by radical activists and this is a global agenda and it is uh centered on sexually
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sexualizing our children at the earliest age possible it's very abusive it's sexually abusive
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uh it is focused on uh promoting pedophilia bestiality and all kinds of other sexual deviancies
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it's it's really shocking that it's gotten as far as it has so i'll come back up here in just a moment
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to show you the soji123 notice of liability we've created this is a link to the books identical
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uh fun home uh genderqueer etc giving a bit of a review and showing what's going on there and why
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it's in public libraries and school libraries and um i believe that it isn't even they aren't even
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being approved by provinces for usually unions and parent groups oversee books and resources going into
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schools and etc uh but it seems that people are donating a lot of these books as well and so they've
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just ended up in those schools with nobody really paying attention to it previously a report i wrote
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in 2018 testimony from a girl that was in the public school system sarah lovely girl 14 years old a trans
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person shows up said if you're not uncomfortable in your body you're probably struggling with gender
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dysphoria which started her journey towards getting on hormones this is her here growing a beard having
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her breasts removed and um a year ago praise the lord she uh realized that she was being deceived and
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is on a road to uh renewal and recovery on this page as well we're providing uh really important
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information if you have individuals in your uh maybe it's maybe it's your sister and her son is like
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wanting to be a girl and she's like oh you know they've told me that he'll commit suicide you know that
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old thing that whole thing they're doing uh to manipulate people do you want a live son or you
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know uh or a live daughter or dead son and it's it's really really disgusting so there's all kinds
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of incredible information that you would be able to resources to send other huge success and this is why
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i'm calling for all hands on deck is in places like the united states and the uk people are rising up and
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they are having great success in the united states there's a dozen states who have banned child
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transitioning and there's approximately another dozen states who have bills that have been tabled
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and they're just pushing them through they're pushing them through against drag queens there's more
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there's way more reports but it's a matter of our time in order to uh put them on the page but we'll try
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to update that all of the actions that we're doing uh in exposing any kind of radical uh trans behavior
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is on this page uh you know uh we've had uh john euler on he is a therapist who has been uh practicing
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for 30 years with victims but for 14 years as well with the worst of the worst sexual criminals in
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prisons and uh these are are lengthy um videos but i'm telling you they're well worth it to know
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what a sexual predator looks like who they are and how to keep your kids protected and that protection
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comes from you knowing and being able to identify these people who may be in your church a family
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member etc that little gut feeling inside of you is generally pretty right on and you need to listen to
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that voice anyways that's a lot of information on this page and calls to action when you have time
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scroll through it be educated because knowledge is power it's so powerful when you have this in your
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hands so if you click on this page you will end up on the notice of liability page again in ontario it's
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called the win sex ed so we've provided a note of notice of liability uh for everybody in canada
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and ontario is just unique it's all the same thing comprehensive sexuality education from the un
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but just by different names so i just wanted to bring awareness read through these pages get a
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little bit informed so what are we doing about it um one last thing sorry i will bring weekly emails
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okay my apologies uh okay so under weekly emails we sent out this one is uh are they educating uh
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global citizens that's the new phrase when you start hearing a family member or anybody talking about
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that we're educating global citizens and i've called school board trustees out saying no you're
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supposed to be educating canadian citizens sovereign citizens under the canadian constitution and the
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chart charter of rights and freedoms and so this is a bit of a it's a bit of a mockery but it's not
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this is the reality of what's going on in our classrooms this is the thing math math is racist two
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plus two equals five join a gay straight alliance you know the chinese are educating their children
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and the homeschoolers are educating their children and doing a phenomenal job and our our education
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system is making social activists on them based on a foundation of nonsense right so we got to bring
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our reality back we got to rescue as many kids as possible and uh get them out of this system all
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right so what are we doing to achieve that under resources there's a couple of different ones that
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you'll see i know i hope you're taking some notes but this video will be available as well there's the
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youth movement youth leadership and speaker program and then of course there's the parent resources
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and so for years we have been you know working towards giving our youth a voice and last year we
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started the first youth leadership program and it has just turned into amazing um experience and
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again we have the new youth uh leadership program starting uh this friday no is uh yeah april 21st
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sorry a week friday when you go to the youth uh freedom movement this page we just did one in
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february march i would encourage you to go and listen to these videos these are just short clips the kids
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had to give a speech at the end and um if you keep scrolling down these were the ones from last year
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and it will give you encouragement because the globalists they know that the youth are the key
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to the future but we know that too and so we've got to be uh working and investing in our youth and
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teaching them how to use their voice we over the constitution and the charter rights and all kinds of
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other good information we talk about different social issues with them and it is really phenomenal
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how advanced they are in their understanding and their maturity and being able to think critically
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and for themselves and i think that's that's going to be the win so be sure to register and join i'm
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not going to take up any more time here we could carry on and on and on because there's just so much
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work that action for canada is doing but that just gives you a little bit of an idea where some of
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the resources are that i would encourage you to get educated on whether your child is being homeschooled
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or whether you have them in the education system all right thank you so much doris now it's over to you
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yeah i just wanted to add um recently i want to say maybe two months ago um my daughter and her husband
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had their oldest in kindergarten at a very special private school here in town and they're preparing
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to uh eventually homeschool but it happened earlier than they had planned because lo and behold in
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kindergarten the drag queen showed up for story time and that did cross the line for um my daughter
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and her husband and her husband and they pulled her and asked me immediately if i could homeschool her
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till the end of the school year which i have and they're now enrolling her into homeschooling into
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next fall so it's an absolute joy and delight to be doing this again um it's it's i'm actually having
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a really good time i uh homeschool her three days a week and then my other daughter takes her for
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one day of the week so it all seems to come together um one of the reasons i initially we
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decided to homeschool as i started to study it more and my sister older sister and my sister-in-law had
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already pioneered before me um was i was really intrigued about how you can tailor the education
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toward each child because i have three kids and they all learn very very differently and um
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um so i was determined that my kids were going to be the smartest kids ever like ever
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but i realized over time that they because they learn differently that um what mattered more to me
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over time was how they can learn and we don't spoon feed them we teach them how to learn
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and how do you create that sort of um joy in them to learn and we were able to uh control uh
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semi-control the kind of influences they had in their their their friends um positive socialization
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versus negative socialization um i know socialization is always the biggest question we get asked as
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homeschoolers and i think now we can show the fruit because a lot of these kids are now in their 30s and
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40s that have children of their own and they're fitting very well into society and uh they're they're strong
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and healthy emotionally and mentally and spiritually strong so um the answers are there now i was quite uh
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proactive in the community we lived in a very small town at the time on the coast of vancouver island
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and we had a large homeschool group a support group and we had lots of activities to keep the kids busy
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throughout the week um so not only did they have their school or their friends from the homeschool
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activities we had um they had they made friends through sports um music lessons um
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um my middle daughter is a photographer so really engaged in those classes one-on-one and finding
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new friends so it's not hard i think initially if you're worried about it just stay on top of it
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and eventually um it'll all come together especially as these homeschooling is so big now that there are so
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many learning groups or pods or co-ops whether like in bc we actually have organized
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learning pods or community groups done through certain homeschool
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schools that support homeschooling um i'm sure there's opportunities like that across
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the country as well now before i go on i'm just going to screen share here as well
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our action for canada page on homeschooling so right there
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i've got so much stuff on the front here homeschooling revolution there we go
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can you all see this is this working perfect okay and on here you will see
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the directory at the top but i'm just going to scroll down there is um a video interview we did last summer
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and um i see heather's word is in our chat here today so thank you for signing in heather
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and uh some other links and then this one's interesting i watched that again last night
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this is a movement in calgary and uh i've reached out to him waiting to hear back to see how that's
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going he and his wife um left the school system and started um
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uh oh what's the word i'm thinking of um tutoring for homeschoolers and they're in the northwest i think
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and uh with very connected to the homeschooling movement in alberta so they're a new movement
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um i couldn't find um his email address but if you go to learn here you can read more about it
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this is a nova scotia link ontario and then a few more things you can look at just scrolling back to
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the top here if you go to homeschool association directory i've reached out to the provinces across
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canada each province has its own um homeschool association so you can see alberta manitoba new
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brunswick they're all down here um the big one is ontario and that's heather who has signed in here
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today and they've got the most homeschoolers in canada and by the way i did a little research
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this week and i found out that homeschooling in canada doubled in the last two years i think
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initially it was you know everybody was forced to stay home but people stayed on and stuck it out
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and stayed on and the number one reason um this research the second reason came from the us
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uh on their homeschool site was uh bullying and the second one was curriculum and i went wow i wonder
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why so it's exciting um anyways if you go to these websites uh for each province this is how i suggest
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you start is you look up the website and these websites are full of information on how to get
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started you will find your support groups um the leaders there will narrow it down to the region you
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live in and they will say there's a support group let's say it's ontario up in barry or one in mississauga
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and they'll get you connected there's lots of videos i noticed on the nova scotia one um the second one
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here they have a great how to get started um so this is really good links to get you started each
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province has its own laws and regulations they're they're very similar um in bc you have two options
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uh there's the traditional homeschooling which is across the canada which is how it all started
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45 years ago um and then there's we have a new thing here which i know some other provinces have
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it's enrollment where you have a a homeschool friendly school most of them are christian schools in bc
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that offer homeschool programs that come with teachers that oversee your your project um your
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school work they they they can either come in your home once or twice a year and see if you're meeting
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all the learning outcomes or they are accessible all the time online um technically in bc uh the traditional
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homeschooling is the is technically homeschooling everything else is considered school at home
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which uh they get more funding for that as well uh the the government does or the ministry of
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education i guess so i personally chose traditional homeschooling for my kids and my oldest was the
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only one that wanted to do the actual grad program which is grade 10 11 12 in bc and uh so we switched
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her over to enrollment for those last three years and actually she challenged her her grade 10 because
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we started her a year late she she passed it and actually graduated a year early and so did my youngest
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so that was pretty awesome um let's move along to oh i just wanted to say interesting i heard this once
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in my lifetime i went did some digging before confederation in 1867 education was predominantly
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done in the home and after that schooling became funded and regulated by provincial ministries of
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education homeschooling resurfaced in the 1980s and um these were those major pioneers i'm sure back in
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the day we thought they lived in the bush maybe in the 70s but it got more more and more common in the
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80s and then well on its way in the 90s and um literally paved a way for a third alternative of
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education in canada and the united states um and it's it's everywhere there are some european countries
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that are on board some that they're not um but it is growing all over the world okay so we're gonna move
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over to doris had you wanted to go down to the bottom of this page to show the extra resources yes okay
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that's very good very important so um right here the hslda homeschool legal defense association i actually
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opened up their website over here and they offer the legal protection for canadian homeschoolers
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they know all the laws of these of uh each province but they offer additional services which they didn't
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have when i was joined so they offer exceptional needs consulting and you get a one free hour of
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consultation um just read through that and then career cons or curriculum consulting so if you're
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just starting and you're completely overwhelmed this would be another uh great opportunity even the
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consultation alone they can point you to the right places now again those websites for the provincial
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sites also do all that and um and then expert homeschool advice so i was quite happy about seeing that there
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so legally too like in the 80s and 90s um they were very very active protecting our homeschool laws
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and every once in a while things still come up particularly in quebec uh newfoundland labrador
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they still have uh some issues but the hslda is great um they cost about i think 162 dollars to join
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if you're part of a homeschool association that supports hslda or otherwise it's 190 dollars a year
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but by joining them you get all these services and you're supporting what they're doing and i knew i was
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going to be okay in bc um in my group i didn't think i was ever going to need hslda legally but i
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supported them all these years because i knew that they were working hard on the front lines for other
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people in canada and that was really important to me okay so where are we here at the bottom no no no
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that one this one yeah if you want to know homeschool laws and regulations this is a nice site you can
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just at a glance read that the learning house um is uh a website where you can get more information on
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uh curriculum and all that um down here are some magazines
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classical conversations is a really great um approach to enriching your child's education
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education through classical learning it's it's really awesome homeschool today and teaching home
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i think those are american yeah they are very very good um lots of tips on how to homeschool
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ideas and keeping your homeschool creative um you can sign online and then just get a digital version
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i don't know if they still make hard copies but would be worth looking at um
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i guess one of the questions and i'm just going to come out of this again here
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people ask is do i need any formal training and the answer is no you love your child you know your child
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best and you are the best able to assess their interest needs and goals in a way no other person
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can and the longer you have your kids at home the more you understand how they learn so i'll give you
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an example my oldest child is like her dad she can read a book and and know every page memorized in her
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head and can quote you anything she's a reader and she is um a great public speaker
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um my second one was why would i read the book when i can watch the movie and i'm more like that myself
00:30:24.320
so not that she doesn't read because she does read but she was late later in learning to read but
00:30:30.240
that's the beauty of homeschooling so there's no pressure if they're not reading at five so my my
00:30:35.360
oldest was reading at four and a half and i unfortunately thought that was kind of normal
00:30:39.840
and then when my second came along she was reading some words at six but it really came to fruition at
00:30:47.520
eight and when you've got those early years and you're you know we tend to compare with other moms
00:30:54.400
and we think oh you know their kid is super smart and my my kid's not reading it but you know what
00:31:00.160
they do they come along everybody figures it out and that's the beauty of homeschooling
00:31:05.280
is you work at their pace and you don't rush them my third was um i i think she just learned through
00:31:14.240
osmosis because she just sat at the table and for me to keep her busy was i just gave her coloring
00:31:20.080
papers while i was teaching my second and when my third one was ready when it when she was ready
00:31:25.440
you know according to the book when she was ready she was just she just figured it out and i figured
00:31:31.920
she learned by listening she just leaned in and listened all the time so teaching her to read was
00:31:37.440
very easy um she's a musician and she lives in nashville now and um and my second one uh worked for an
00:31:46.560
airline and now she is a uh photographer and a stay-at-home mom and my oldest works uh in the
00:31:53.440
finance area of the world investments and all that and doing fine and uh having to scale back for next
00:32:00.560
year so um my motto always was delight directed study so what delights them what delights them and as
00:32:11.440
you have your children home you realize wow my one child really loves mechanics he loves to take
00:32:17.680
things apart and put them back together um my other one loves dogs loves dogs and uh furrow season
00:32:26.400
they're my oldest she was about 10 she wanted to breed hamsters so you cover everything you cover
00:32:33.120
your written work by researching hamsters and then she started breeding them and selling them in town
00:32:39.440
and um science it covered science it covered math um reading it covered a lot of the the core
00:32:51.120
curriculum that you need so when you find out in your child what they love to learn it's it's pretty
00:32:57.200
exciting and and tailoring in their education that way the key is and i know everybody's going just tell
00:33:03.360
me what to do curriculum curriculum i just need to know what kind of curriculum that's where
00:33:08.880
i would say if you're starting in kindergarten that's the best time to start because you have
00:33:15.040
like up to i don't know k to four just lean back play games learning games activities songs adventures
00:33:24.400
outside give them lots of time to explore touch and feel build and destroy blow things up whatever
00:33:31.280
it is that kids need to do build a fort there's so much learning if you if you look at everything as
00:33:37.840
a learning opportunity even sweeping the floor you know like chores all those things it really becomes
00:33:43.520
a lifestyle um if you are pulling your kid out at grade seven i would really lean into the support
00:33:53.840
groups that you've got because your child has been so used to a structured system whether it was public
00:34:01.120
school or private school or private school most kids that's what it is um they're used to large
00:34:09.280
classroom sizes and waiting in line and the teachers telling me what to do and that's why it takes so
00:34:19.120
many hours a day to to to get school done where when you have your child at home you can have all your
00:34:24.720
core curriculum done even at grade seven by lunch time and over time they start to realize wow like
00:34:31.680
i have free time after lunch and uh they do and they don't you have you can structure your free time to
00:34:38.800
make it fun um if you're pulling your child and now this child's in grade 10 and you're pulling them for
00:34:46.160
reasons because of soji or belaying or whatever's going on again i would consult with your provincial
00:34:55.680
homeschool websites and talk to somebody personally one-on-one so they will guide you through what you
00:35:02.400
need to do they will help you get set up with curriculum um the curriculum world is like this big it is like
00:35:09.600
across the world huge it can be overwhelming if you've never looked at it so when you're starting
00:35:16.320
you've got a lot of time to research and try different things because when your children are
00:35:21.840
young you don't quite yet know what their learning style is and i'm hoping by the time they are in grade
00:35:27.920
seven you now know which way they lean are they musical do they um love math do they um
00:35:37.440
um like my middle daughter take pictures and videos of everything um do they uh want to tinker around with cars
00:35:49.520
do they um love to research and study and really know things and when you kind of see which way they
00:36:00.080
are bent or created by god it's beautiful to see that you just tailor your curriculum
00:36:07.600
so it suits them yes there will be times when you have to the child has to write a sentence and
00:36:14.720
a lot of young kids dread writing anything so why not make it interesting if they're into mechanics
00:36:24.800
why don't they research their favorite car and write three things about it um if they're into
00:36:32.080
sports and they love baseball why don't they research their favorite baseball player or their favorite
00:36:39.440
hockey player and then um it can expand from there there's so much it's just endless
00:36:46.800
i often feel like i didn't have enough time to get it all in because we had such a good time and you know
00:36:52.320
the other thing that happens as your kids um learn is you as a teacher learn everything all over again
00:36:59.440
because we know when we graduated we don't remember all of that stuff we took we know how to read and
00:37:05.520
write and count and we know some things but there's lots of things we missed out on so by homeschooling
00:37:12.640
you get to learn it up with them and that's what makes it really exciting okay i'm gonna go back to
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a screen here and i'm gonna show you i think it's this one no no no no no where to go
00:37:47.440
in canada six steps to start your journey i found this on um
00:37:54.000
i can't i see the let's go back to the top of the page here the canadian homeschooler magazine
00:37:59.840
and uh it's a great resource if you want to write that down this the gal who put this together was
00:38:08.720
very thorough and um has answered i think every question in the in the world so every homeschooler
00:38:17.040
has a story about why they choose this journey now currently i think a lot of people are pulling kids
00:38:22.000
because it's a reaction i would encourage you to embrace what homeschooling offers and that you get to
00:38:28.960
do it instead of going oh no i have to do it um you get to do it and it's so exciting because when you
00:38:35.840
see what they're good at and how they shine these kids are just blow you away so it's important to write
00:38:46.400
down why you want to homeschool make sure they're visible and then use them to feel confident in your
00:38:53.680
decision and why is this important and i was thinking back about this stuff because you will
00:38:59.440
have days when people question you and make you doubt and they will they certainly made me question and
00:39:06.320
i had to really defend myself in the early 90s or your child and you fight and you wonder if you should
00:39:14.480
keep going and that will happen or life feels overwhelming and you don't know if you can do this anymore
00:39:21.520
having that clear why means that you can remind yourself of your reasons and can keep pushing
00:39:26.640
through rough days or doubt with clarity you could even write a little sticky on your fridge
00:39:34.160
or in your bathroom mirror every morning you wake up and say this is why i'm doing this
00:39:38.720
and you know i'll be honest if you're pulling your child the first year will not be easy because the
00:39:44.800
child again has been so used to a certain system and you're going to be wondering why in the world
00:39:49.680
you're doing this but it comes out on the sweet side you just got to wait find the support support is
00:39:57.680
everything surround yourself with these people get connected and whether it's it live in person is
00:40:04.480
best but there's lots of online support now too so step two understand the rules that has to do with your
00:40:12.640
your province and it actually lists all the provinces on what is required and how what is re uh
00:40:23.200
what you need to do the only thing really you need to do i think in most provinces is if your child's
00:40:29.680
currently in there and maybe notify them that they're not going to be going back in bc that's all you have to do
00:40:34.960
um oh in bc you also have to register at any school it can be a christian school it can be a
00:40:43.040
an online homeschool school that again you'll have to look up on your province step three get support we
00:40:51.520
just talked about that you can just read that when you have time but really important to stay connected
00:41:00.560
because it really keeps you going and you find um you make new friends that's where your children meet
00:41:11.520
new friends and a lot of uh sharing of ideas go on of what works for different families different tricks
00:41:20.400
and then choosing curriculum that's the big one i know a lot of times people just want just tell me
00:41:27.040
what to do i would say if if if you've got nothing right now for k to four just read read to them
00:41:34.800
lots of reading to them read to them till they're in grade 12 just read read read read good books um
00:41:42.400
get them reading work even if you went to walmart and got a little uh book on um printing out letters i
00:41:50.320
mean it's a starting point as you are trying to find good curriculum a lot of good christian
00:41:56.320
curriculum out there um learning styles visual auditory kinetic we we just talked about that
00:42:03.360
with my children um another thing i learned about myself is a teaching style in the early days they
00:42:11.440
have this program called bob jones university and i mean we looked i looked at that book and i went it
00:42:17.600
was like this thick and i went i can't do that i can't even read that book i'm overwhelmed and um
00:42:25.200
so it's important when you look at curriculum for your child see how you relate to it too because
00:42:31.920
you're going to be guiding them and helping them and teaching them through their curriculum and you
00:42:36.320
need to be able to understand it too so it's not just about the child take the time to read through
00:42:42.640
it and see if you connect with it um different approaches schooling at home traditional that's
00:42:51.680
what i did i i basically did a little bit of everything i did classical charlotte mason i did
00:42:58.160
unit studies unit studies are great where you can do two or three kids at once and talk about the world
00:43:04.960
you can talk about geography together and then um you expect you have different expectations for grade
00:43:11.840
five grade three grade one or um if they're in high school and you're going to dissect an animal like back
00:43:23.760
in the back of the day we did frogs in school so uh different expectations but the unit study is frogs
00:43:32.240
it covers um science it'll cover um math it'll cover writing it'll cover reading and social studies it'll
00:43:41.680
cover a lot so and they're really fun to do because i spent a lot of time outside with my kids during unit
00:43:47.520
studies um and then yeah eclectic that was me a little bit of everything because of my kids learning
00:43:54.240
styles see that word right here unschooling um part of unschooling is that first year if if you've got a
00:44:05.760
child who has been bullied terribly at school and now they're coming home or if they were always falling
00:44:13.760
between the cracks at school and and they knew they weren't always behind if you put a piece of paper
00:44:20.240
down in front of them and say okay now we're homeschooling i need you to fill up the blanks
00:44:24.560
they're going to cringe and they're going to resist probably so by unschooling that means you just
00:44:32.000
give them the time and the space it might be three months it might actually be a year
00:44:39.040
and see what they're interested encourage the learning but um i wouldn't force so much paper
00:44:48.000
fill in the blanks stuff because that's what a lot of our mainstream schools do is filling in blanks and
00:44:55.360
we were raised that way i went to public school and there's a feeling of success when we fill in a blank
00:45:01.120
blank and um sometimes they need to go outside and you will watch what they are able to do and they
00:45:10.880
will blow you away i am so impressed with kids when we expect greatness of kids um especially when
00:45:19.920
they're teenagers and we don't dumb them down we treat them with respect and and have our bar high enough
00:45:27.120
they will perform they will be great um kids and they won't be that that kid that's living in their
00:45:36.160
mother's basement at age 30 who still can't figure out how to get a job these kids will get out there
00:45:42.160
and they will learn how to work and contribute so that's the other thing i always kept at the back of
00:45:48.960
my mind expect greatness from my child and delight in their uniqueness if they're different that's
00:45:56.720
what makes uh the family life exciting okay um and then here learning about different homeschooling
00:46:04.640
methods there's a 10-part video series you can um link into that here it is again how to homeschool in
00:46:13.680
canada the 10 steps so a really great resource um that is on our web page as well if you um
00:46:27.360
have the time go down there and look at that number six never stop learning i'm still like that
00:46:34.560
i love learning and i love watching um like with my granddaughter watching her learn so um
00:46:44.720
how do i pull my child from school if they're in the school like i said you just notify them
00:46:51.040
sometimes you gotta send an official letter sometimes you gotta write an email
00:46:56.080
um you will find that out on your provincial website and uh the other question i get asked a lot is how
00:47:06.720
do i know what the learning outcomes are for each grade when you homeschool i would encourage you to
00:47:14.080
consider the big picture and then make small goals so if you're just gonna do one year um
00:47:26.000
then look at the year goal and break it down what can we try to achieve week by week month by month
00:47:34.480
i would encourage you if you can pull your child forever and make it a family lifestyle it is
00:47:41.600
extremely rewarding you really bond with your children my kids are very bonded to me even now
00:47:46.800
because we spent 17 years together in in schooling at home and then after their dad died they were
00:47:56.480
teenagers i was a single mom and i decided to finish homeschooling them right to grade 12 so it is
00:48:04.640
possible and um so how do we i'll just touch on single parenting in a minute but i'm just going to finish
00:48:11.440
up on learning outcomes for like i said kindergarten to grade four get them reading printing basic math
00:48:18.400
skills and then um you can get a scope and sequence from your uh provincial i think ministry of education
00:48:28.960
that pretty much lays out what's sort of expected from each grade you can also get that information from
00:48:36.160
your provincial homeschool website they will tell you what's expected in in your province now
00:48:42.160
interestingly if i were to move to new brunswick um and i had my children were still young and with me
00:48:51.280
the learning outcomes would be slightly different so each province has its sort of like what they
00:48:58.080
expect you to do in grade eight in new brunswick might be what you do in grade nine in bc so there
00:49:04.640
could be some overlapping if you were to move but again if you have the whole picture and i decided probably
00:49:12.880
when my kids were i think within the first five years of homeschooling i decided i was going to do it for
00:49:18.880
the long haul because it just got better and better and um i went well as long as we hit this landmark
00:49:26.480
by the time she's 10 and as long as we hit this landmark by let's say we started school in september
00:49:34.160
by january let's hope we've covered this unit study so i made these big goals and then i broke it down
00:49:40.800
into small goals and then i broke it down to each child because they all learn different differently at
00:49:46.240
different paces in the end it all works out so that's the main thing right in the end they they
00:49:53.840
got the core uh learning done and um they're good to go and then how to homeschool in canada there's a
00:50:01.680
conclusion there they've got so right here you can listen to 20 veteran canadian homeschoolers
00:50:09.360
so these are people who've done it before you and who have successfully gone through the whole season
00:50:17.760
i wanted to tap into this site here my daughter my oldest daughter who is trying to figure out how to
00:50:25.600
juggle work next year and homeschooling um she actually found this site so this is one for parents
00:50:34.000
parents who either single parents who are trying to homeschool or if you are married and you're both
00:50:40.400
working and you're trying to juggle it all so there's that this gal also jen mckinnon has a facebook group
00:50:51.600
so you can share lots of ideas there so that's kind of interesting uh special needs i wanted to quickly
00:51:11.600
i'm just going to come back to how do i get out of that there we go
00:51:21.120
in bc uh heritage christian online school literally is down the hill from me they're the biggest uh
00:51:26.400
homeschool supporting school in bc and um and wide awake to what's going on here in in our in canada
00:51:34.480
and they actually offer a program for special needs i have a friend who was a teacher on vancouver ireland
00:51:41.040
who joined hcos to be their special needs um facilitator so there's ways to get government funding in
00:51:48.960
addition to that um and and still have your child at home and even if you choose to do programs where
00:51:57.360
it's online and there is some sort of funding involved you as a parent still can control what they
00:52:08.000
learn and not learn so if anything tries to creep in you can catch it before it comes in it's very very
00:52:15.280
rare if that were to happen but it is there um oh i just wanted to show you one more thing and then
00:52:23.760
we're going to go into q a here there we go can you see this one about 10 reasons to homeschool high
00:52:36.880
school years okay sometimes we think we need to put our kids back in school around grade nine
00:52:48.560
because we don't feel qualified to do high school usually by the time they're in grade seven and grade
00:52:54.400
eight they're quite uh self-directed learners we don't have to teach them so much anymore because
00:53:01.840
they've learned how to learn and that's the beauty of homeschooling is they learn how to learn
00:53:07.040
and i took this from the website of um the ocheck website um that's heathersworth's
00:53:15.520
ontario homeschool support group and i love the values it's not even focused on
00:53:22.640
uh curriculum because i think the values is what we really want to instill in the long run in our kids
00:53:28.960
number one to continue the family building process number two to cement family relationships number three
00:53:35.920
provide an excellent learning environment individualized education based on their needs
00:53:42.880
you can accelerate the academic progress so if they're if they're moving along move them along
00:53:48.480
which is what i did with my oldest she was ready to roll and my youngest too actually my youngest
00:53:54.800
her last year we went to brazil and she did um we took math and english and um
00:54:01.120
we lived there for three months and we did some ministry there and she managed to finish even a
00:54:08.160
year early um doing it that way and that was the beauty of um homeschooling is that we could travel
00:54:14.480
um number six have direct influence over peer relationships bingo that's a big one you can
00:54:22.640
have positive socialization for your children and because there's a lot of negative socialization out
00:54:29.440
there right from day one kindergarten grade seven whenever it starts for you you as a parent can
00:54:35.920
control and then positive social there's some great kids out there and um we just got to find them for
00:54:44.000
for our children number seven protect from the pressure to conform another one lots of flexibility
00:54:52.160
creating a safe learning environment allow god to show himself strong and that was very true in my
00:54:57.520
family after my family after my husband died you know how are we going to make it but god was strong
00:55:02.720
and he gave us all we needed to get through it so anyways i just wanted to let you know that probably
00:55:11.200
the main thing is is tap into those websites in your province know your rules your government policies
00:55:17.200
um ask your your support groups there if there's um facebook groups to link into where you can
00:55:26.400
get ideas of how to fill your week with activities um and the other thing is i would encourage you to
00:55:33.360
look at it as your new job because i always thought i have a new job but i'm not getting paid a dime for it
00:55:40.400
but what you get is the value 20 years later and that is worth everything
00:55:50.400
that's it awesome oh well thank you so much doris for walking us through that information
00:55:56.800
i want to encourage anybody if you stop sharing screen oh that's right down at the bottom under
00:56:04.960
reactions because i know people have been putting questions in the chat so select under reactions
00:56:10.960
to raise your hand and we'll get to your questions i'm just seeing if there's yeah if you collect it
00:56:20.320
select it you can do your little zoom hand or if you can't do that and you've got a question just raise
00:56:26.320
your hand or put the question in the chat i know that there was some i'm just trying to scroll back up to
00:56:34.720
the top can you unmute heather there you are okay no i don't have a question or a comment except that
00:56:44.960
um one of the things that we have found in ontario is that while there have been a lot of homeschool
00:56:49.600
families the last couple years have caused them to start being hesitant about who they can bring
00:56:54.240
into their circle and who they can trust and who they want to associate with so even though it may
00:56:59.520
be hard for a while to connect with other homeschool families please keep
00:57:04.720
contacting for ourselves from ontario please keep contacting us we can get you connecting with
00:57:10.720
other homeschoolers um if they're contacting us probably they're christians because that's all
00:57:17.600
over our website um and then we we do a safe process of connecting people to each other so
00:57:26.400
i just regret that it's so hard now to to get people to drop that hesitancy
00:57:30.720
right and i think that that's gonna be growing as those communities um also advance right and
00:57:39.040
that's one of the reasons why at the beginning i was showing the map of canada with the action for
00:57:44.000
canada chapters because there's um already this wonderful group rising up of those like-minded
00:57:50.880
people a lot of them are associated uh with the church but there are a number that are joining us who
00:57:57.520
are not but see the value in traditional learning and and so i'm really excited about what's taking
00:58:03.680
place and transpiring and again i just want to emphasize that you know there we did our homework
00:58:10.080
when we vetted heather and other homeschool organizations and heather will you just name the
00:58:15.440
group that you're with again i'm with ochack ontario christian home educators connection the last couple of
00:58:21.760
i was at an alternative education conference in london and i'll be at one in tilsenburg in a couple
00:58:26.800
of weeks the very interesting thing i find is that because people can't seem to find the christian
00:58:31.840
organization they go there and then they find us there and that's great um but that's who we are
00:58:37.840
ontario christian home educators connection we have 17 area reps across ontario to connect with you we
00:58:42.960
have mentors who will help you along we'll take your phone calls um and we have a great conference
00:58:48.560
coming up which i'd love to show you the page for um but yeah do you want to share screen right now i
00:58:55.840
can do that yeah so this this is um our convention it's may 5th and 6th it's about a thousand people
00:59:03.840
um these are our speakers chaff and connie um if we're talking about parents and
00:59:12.400
being parents and raising your children a lot through the homeschooling um we have our sessions
00:59:19.840
up what everybody's going to be talking on um and our list of vendors that are going to be there
00:59:26.960
so pretty much every vendor will be there okay my yeah as i say my my internet is being unstable now
00:59:36.880
so i'll go back to not sharing the video yes okay that's good so that's why i want to encourage
00:59:43.840
people as well as like i say we did the vetting of homeschool organizations canada wide there were a
00:59:50.000
lot of homeschooling organizations out there but when we dug in i i ended up in their search engine i
00:59:56.960
would put sustainability uh you know you know the world economic forum the un the agenda 2030 uh the global
01:00:06.080
compact on migration and sustainable development goals and if they had sustainable development
01:00:10.720
goals i i wouldn't even go near them with a 10-foot pole if they were really uh promoting the masking
01:00:17.920
and the backs of children we didn't include them on our website um because moving forward that's the
01:00:24.800
that's the type of uh globalization that we're trying to get away from that we so who knows where in
01:00:30.320
their curriculum that they're uh providing parents where that would be integrated and uh so i i truly
01:00:38.880
believe that you know the partnerships that we're making action for canada doesn't have a homeschooling
01:00:43.200
curriculum uh we're not going to recreate the wheel that's why we're uh we have vetted homeschooling
01:00:49.680
organizations that we believe will give parents in those provinces the the best possible uh education for
01:00:56.880
their children and the best connections and uh heather thank you is there anything else that you'd like
01:01:01.680
to add to that you guys just do a great job okay awesome i'm not a great i'm not a great speaker i'm
01:01:10.080
sorry i i find that pretty much every parent can do the homeschooling and they really don't need to
01:01:15.360
compare how they're doing with somebody else it's their family their children and in ontario it says to
01:01:23.120
provide a satisfactory instruction it doesn't say get your kids to a satisfactory grade or it just says
01:01:31.520
to instruct them and it would be unwise for parents to not instruct their children then they're opening
01:01:37.360
themselves up to challenges whether it's through children's aid and those in neighbor um even an
01:01:44.400
application to um our local school if they can't show that they have some records to indicate that they
01:01:51.280
have been providing some satisfactory instruction that's really really important and i think another
01:01:56.160
avenue that that's really important is if you have a child with learning disabilities having a record
01:02:01.920
that you've been doing satisfactory instruction is so important for those people who you're looking at
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to provide external resources to help you they're going to feel more confident about what you're doing if
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you can show that you have been instructing and for the age and ability level of your student that
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there has been if if at all possible some progress in what they're doing and you'll have access to those
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resources rather than people challenging you that's what i hear from the moms here in ontario that those
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records are really really important normally i say to people there's no there's no requirements in ontario but
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i can't say that anymore because there's a lot of people joining into homeschooling and they don't
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understand sometimes the value of the homeschooling and they they want the freedom without the
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responsibility so it's nice to have the freedom away from the public school systems and curriculum but at
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the same time we have to take responsibility for our children's education that means some instruction
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right heathers who said you're not a good speaker i i found that very valuable absolutely 100 so and
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this is one of the reasons a good example as well while why it's really important to connect with one
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of the homeschooling groups in your province or territory uh you know because they can help support
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you and and this is what we want to grow across the nation down in california and other places you know
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they've uh tried to ban homeschooling and other parts of the world because you know they they the
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goal is to create to educate these global citizens and we're saying hands off we're taking back control
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of education and the bible is wonderful it says raise your children in the way they should go and they
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will not depart from it they may seem to depart from it for a little while but they come back as they
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mature and uh you know it is an incredible responsibility to raise children and in the way
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that they should go and we shouldn't be leaving that to to somebody else we've got this is honestly
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it's the most if you if you've had uh you know if you have kids you're here today it's one of the most
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important responsibilities you have uh everything else is second to none and um okay so there is another
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comment i'd like to make if i can certainly so so if there are people here that are on that are just
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starting out you are going to get some pushback from your family and from your neighbors and from
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many places but i want you to know that if you do connect with other homeschoolers that pushback isn't
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going to feel so tough it is tough when you're on it on your own and you don't have those people that
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are in the same journey with you helping you and fighting the battle with you and we need to connect
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now rather than in 10 years from now when we won't be able to it's far better to be building our
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community now when we have at least the freedom that we currently have
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then to wait until the freedoms are gone right and um i know that as we have mentioned we're action
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for canada is working really hard nationwide and uh because of the amount of parents that
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are pulling their kids out of school we've heard of a catholic school in ontario where they've had a
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three percent decline in registration and i think the registration is even greater than that because
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people are pulling their kids in the community from the public schools and putting them in the
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catholic school having believed that they'd get a better education and these educators the ministers of
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education are beginning to realize this as i mentioned earlier at the beginning of the webinar
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that there's a lot of legislation being passed in the us and uk who were ahead of us in in bringing
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this depravity into the schools and so that's why they're a bit ahead of us in turning it around
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and and so we've got to keep that uh definitely keep that pressure up um oh there was something that i
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was going to add but it's it slipped my mind i i i recall as well like with that pressure of feeling
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like uh you know my family or my neighbors may say something about homeschooling uh this is where we
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really need to give ourselves a check and think about what's in the best interest of your child um i
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was already fighting a battle 20 years ago my kids are uh 27 and 29 now and i had bought the uh books
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three of the books coming into kindergarten age and kept those out of the surrey school district
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i was an activist i was very shy i thought you know oh i've got to speak up and say something
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enough parents did but the other side is very persistent we've got to be more persistent and
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my daughter when she got to grade eight they had this team building at the school they had it's quite
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a large school so they had all the grade eight classes uh levels come together and in the gymnasium
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this team building they laid the boys and girls on the floor in the gymnasium and then said start at
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this end and roll over each other my daughter who was very late in developing came home traumatized
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i wish i had known i was also a single single mother i wish i had known at that time or
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how serious the problem was to be able to have pulled her out and i did so much with them i homeschooled
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them when they were at the beginning grade kindergarten etc and then but we got her a horse
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and just the environment changed and the responsibility and for her mentally and emotionally
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it was the best sacrifice and decision that i could have made so this is a it is a matter of sacrifice
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and learning how to do this and i just remembered what i was going to say doris had mentioned that your
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child may like to take things apart and build my son was incredible at lego um i remember him
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buying his first car and i'd be out there and pouring rain and rainstorm on the side of the road
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maybe his car had broken down you know he'd be near tears out of frustration but he kept at it he
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would take that engine apart and do something else and now he has a big dodge truck and he can do everything
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on his own he doesn't need to bring it to mechanic and the point is that as we build these
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communities there's going to be that uh parent who is a mechanic he can do a class maybe once a week
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for a month on mechanics on doing an oil change and it's a wonderful thing for both the boys and
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girls to be involved in there are going to be gifts and talents that you may not have in math but you
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may have in writing that there's another parent who who can uh you know teach your child math and you
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can teach their child about uh you know the art of writing and and so that's the beauty of community
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that's what we're trying to do with action for canada and uh so we would just really encourage you
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get involved if there is a chapter sign up you know we're not at the baby stages of action for canada
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we're more advanced at that but we have growth this is also very new to us and what we're developing
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nationwide and uh sorry i can see my dogs getting a little frisky over there they want to play so
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just in case they bark um all right so uh doris i would love it if anybody wants to add to the chat
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what you'd like to hear about in the future we were going to bring some of the homeschool leaders on
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like heather uh in two weeks and um introduce uh i don't know more of maybe of the learning styles
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uh etc so please let us know in the chat what uh you would find valuable all right doris do you have
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anything in closing that you'd like to add um yeah just uh how to reach me it's homeschooling at
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action for canada.ca and so if you have any question about anything in canada um just email me
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and uh hopefully i can help you out and get you started on your way and um grandmothers
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grandpas we have roles too and you know i was kind of cruising the last little while i had i was
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working for an airline and uh they they retired me three years ago and then with covid and everything
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but i i've realized that we've got a phenomenal role and sometimes that is how we can help
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is just step in and even if it's for a season or cover a subject if we're really good at baking or
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teaching routines or something like that so yeah there's a place for all of us to help
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um our kids are stressed out and they've got a lot of pressures with their children
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and that's something we can do to help i love it right that's exactly right okay so wonderful
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i'm thinking as well doris what would be really great is as we're asking canadians and recommending
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that they pull their kids out of the system um i think on the next webinar to have somebody provide
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maybe who's been through that and grade eight are you kidding you pulled your teenager out of high
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school how did that go uh but that is in their best interest um i'm getting reports from parents of
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10 year olds who are being you had mentioned that uh stats in the united states about being bullying
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bullied and it's not about being bullied if they're gay or lesbian what's happening is they've
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got all these gay straight alliance uh clubs in the school these secret clubs and now if uh your
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10 year old isn't part of these clubs the other kids are snubbing them and actually being very cruel
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and so one mom pulled her daughter out uh the other one was a mom of a 10 year old boy and he was being
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bullied for being white because of the critical race theory so it is a war zone in our schools and we we
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love our kids so much but we've we're their only advocate and uh you know their innocence is fleeting
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and we don't get a redo for that once they've been exposed to these materials uh so like i say we're
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in a war we're working very hard uh to win this war but in the meantime we we need to get as many
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parents and children to safety and teachers uh teachers are also leaving the education system
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and that's the beauty of it is they're willing to join maybe the church homeschool groups and others
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um all right well that's wonderful thank you everyone for spending time with us today
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uh like i said will if this time is good for you we've chosen uh 11 o'clock i know that that's
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two o'clock and three o'clock in the east it's it's really hard to manage and i'm just wondering as
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well as if uh 10 a.m pacific standard time may be uh better to make it one o'clock and two o'clock
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in the east as far as your schedule is concerned so feel free to email doris and provide some of that
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feedback as well all right thank you so much god bless you and god bless canada