HOMESCHOOLING TEENS AND TWEENS

<p>Little kids are cute, but they are also a ton of work! And that's why homeschooling tweens and teens (even with all the emotions, insecurities, and headphone isolation) is so rewarding! You get to shift in your role and see them blossom in independence.&nbsp;Parenting and homeschooling gets better every year! Tune in to hear what you have to look forward to in the tween/teen years. If you're already there, you will relate to these common frustrations but also the profound <strong>joy </strong>of raising teens.</p> <p><strong>QUOTABLES</strong></p> <p>Ximena: "Just when you think that you have parenting down, which I don't think we ever get there to where we think we have parenting down, but just when you have like a routine down, or phase, then life just comes at you and they grow up. How dare they?"</p> <p>DeeDee: "Right. You get a good rhythm and routine, and then every year they change, and you have to find the new rhythm."</p> <p>DeeDee: "In elementary school, it's me teaching them, more hands-on, us learning something <em>together</em>. And now, they can learn stuff on their own."</p> <p>Ximena: "I've really enjoyed my kids during this phase. I mean, I've enjoyed them in every phase, but I feel like we laugh so much together now."</p> <p>DeeDee: "I don't think I enjoyed my children as much when they were little. It was so much work all the time."</p> <p>Ximena: "I think it's really important to stay relatable, and don't act like you never went through that insecurity, or you didn't try to defy your parents or whatever. So, I just really try to remember that when I am talking to them, and it's really, really helped."</p> <p>DeeDee: "[Teen years are] when, really, the kids <em>need </em>their parents. I think that is one of the biggest benefits of homeschooling, is just being there."</p> <p><strong>TIMESTAMPS</strong></p> <p>04:30 The whirlwind of changes when kids hit the tween years: crying, neediness, drama and exaggeration.&nbsp;</p> <p>06:02 The hygiene issues and (lack of) neatness.</p> <p>07:18 The i