What does homeschooling look like when you have four boys under 10, a two-bedroom apartment with no yard, and a son who melts down every time it’s time to stop doing something he loves?

This week, Josh and Jess Tirado from Ventura, California, get honest about homeschooling a child with ADHD. Their oldest wasn’t struggling with focus. He was doing great academically. The hard part was transitions, big feelings and impulsive moments that affected his little brothers. They tried parenting classes and every strategy they knew from working in mental health. Then they made a decision a lot of families wrestle with quietly, and they share why, and what changed for the whole house.

We also get into:

• Why they never planned to homeschool, and how COVID, a kindergarten lottery and one book changed everything
• How they teach a third grader with toddlers around (hint: get out of the house half the day)
• Why they only do one to two hours of actual school a day, and why the curriculum that looks boring works
• The dad question: will homeschooled kids have friends? Josh shares an idea about teens and secrets that will make you rethink what’s “normal”
• How grandparents can be a homeschool “cheat code”

And stay until the end, because a broken-down chicken coop at a retired farmer’s ranch turned into something none of us saw coming.

Books mentioned:Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor and Hold On to Your Kids.

Follow Josh & Jess on IG: @anotherwayfamily 

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