102: Victoria Willard - homeschooling single mom of 5

A single mom of 5, working two jobs, and homeschooling her kids... how in the world does Victoria Willard manage it all?

Well, it doesn’t hurt that she is super organized (she has her own home organizing business, after all). And although the kids have been in public school for the last two years, she has homeschooled in the past.

Victoria is a fan of deschooling and unschooling, and builds a curriculum around her children’s interests. Each of them chooses a “major” and Victoria uses Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers to find activities and lessons that bring together the kids’ interests and the things they need to learn.

Oh, and on the side, her two oldest girls have created their own social media empire. Zaria and Haley read bedtime books on their instagram account several times a week. And together with their followers, they’ve collected 6,000 books to create two school libraries in Accra, Ghana. How cool is that?

We also chat about how to discover your child’s unique needs and talk about a couple of great parenting books, The Child Whisperer by Carol Tuttle and The 5 Love Languages of Children.

Without a formal curriculum or help from the school, how does Victoria know what her kids need to learn each year? What is her schedule like with two jobs and homeschool? How does she have her school room set up? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this episode.

Find Victoria online at:

https://www.victoriapwillard.com/

https://www.instagram.com/organizedesigncreate/

https://www.instagram.com/zariaxhailey/

https://www.facebook.com/odcfusion/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/541886296729643/