This channel is a gem for those of us who did not grow up with order and discipline. You give me so so many ideas and always remind me to keep trying.

I’d love to know what your kids will be making for lunches!

@amperaza1

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! That’d be a very helpful video!

Who even comes here and gives a thumbs down? Why!? Anyway…thank you for sharing all this! I’m revamping our schedules/flows and trying figure out a good method for teaching chores.

@shanalikebanana238

2 жыл бұрын

Right! I pray for the thumbs down people they obviously need Jesus!

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

Loads of hate this week sadly!

@LaciElements08

2 жыл бұрын

@@GraceandGrit I saw some in a Facebook group for TGATB. I nicely set them straight. I've been homeschooling for 18 yrs across 8 children. We have 6 grads. I say all of this because I want you to know how much you inspire me. After all these years sometimes I need inspo too :) Thank you for all you do and know that you are having a huge impact

@Ho_Hop

2 жыл бұрын

Haha as soon as I clicked on the video I noticed the thumbs down and was like wait what. Great Video keep up the good work Mama!

Would love a video on a list of lunches your kids make!!

Just ordered our first homeschool curriculum! I have been binge watching your content because I have no idea what I'm doing lol 🙈

I would love a video on lunch ideas for kids, meals kids can make on their own etc.

@jamiecamacho3900

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to know what worked for last year in the kids making breakfast. My oldest just turned 8 and I think this would be a great skill. All great ideas!!!

These organizational and planning videos are like air in my lungs!😄 thank you so much- I get so overwhelmed without a roadmap

Love the chore plan! Also the meal making! Thanks!!!

YES! Love these videos, thank you!

Great video as always! You are so inspiring! Thank you for putting together these super helpful videos!

This video was everything! Thank you for sharing!

I'm in the UK but love your videos, love the idea of a chore list, it's exhausting fitting everything in on your own x

You have been a blessing to me, I’ve utilized a lot of your advice for homeschool life and we have had great success!

This was so helpful!! Thank you! Motivated to finish our plans for the school year now. And we have the same school start date 🎉👏🏻

This was really helpful! Thanks for sharing the details, as it helps me envision how I could adapt your ideas for my own kids.

Just found your channel and I’m loving it! I’ve decided to homeschool my kids this year and your videos are so helpful.

This was so helpful!! I always need ideas for delegating different tasks around the house so I don’t end up doing it all and feeling overwhelmed. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and experience with all of us 💕

Thanks for the planning tips ❤️

This is great! I was wondering if you give them any suggestions of what they can make....so they're not all making mac n cheese for each other for a whole week LOL! Also, do you give them a time limit in the morning when they do chores? And if they don't finish in time, what consequence do you give them? I'm super curious, b/c I've found it so hard to motivate my kids to do chores (they complain every time) but I know it's an important thing to do. Thanks for all your time in making these awesome videos! :)

@emklicko

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rofamily6 I have seven with similar ages!

I love how detailed and simple and straightforward your chore chart is.

Girl, you’re my hero. Seriously. Lol, I’ve been on the sidelines watching your content for the last year. I am just blown away at the health of your schedule, family, time management, etc. So much love for this channel! Thank you! You’re truly, truly an inspiration ❤️❤️

So glad I found your channel. We are starting tomorrow as well. Watching your vlog we conformation from that I chose the right date and day to start.

Amen! I love how you include LIFE SKILLS as part of your kid's lives. It is so important to incorporate this. Love, love, love!

Thank you so much for sharing. I been watching your videos for 2 years now and I am so grateful for all you share. I get so many ideas. So thank you!! I know there is a lot of hate going around so I wanted to send you some love and 🙏 gratitude.❤️

I love the chore ideas! Definitely going to implement that, but change it up monthly I think..

Lots of great information, thank you so much!

My kids started making their own breakfast this year also. Now my wheels are turning for an expansion on their chores and lunch! They usually make their own lunch but I think it would be fun if they had a day that they make it for their siblings. My kids always want to help with supper, but honestly I enjoy a little bit of “me time” while making supper 🤣

Your schedule / chores videos are always my fave !!!!!!! Helps also that my boy is 13, to get ideas. Love that you’re fostering more kitchen experience this year! Thanks so much!

I love that you add their chores as a new skill for them this is so important and valuable

Love it! This is the first year we have to submit our declaration of intent to homeschool (in WA state you don't have to do so until they are 8 years old), and you've inspired me to follow the quarter system too. It seems so much more manageable and way less overwhelming than trying to plan out the whole year lol! Up until now our homeschooling journey has been very informal but the planner in me is excited for the change lol! I love that the kids have a day to make lunches and how you emphasize the importance of learning life skills. Curious how you teach them about money management and the work-money connection? We use a clipboard and commission system for our kids. Clipboard chores are the ones they're responsible for every day just because they are a member of our family. As they get older I definitely want to model your system of a new chore each day. Then they have commission chores that they can choose to do once their clipboard chores are done. If they do the work, they earn the money and if they don't, then they don't get paid on payday (Sunday). It has been a great way to teach the work-money connection and then the value of saving as well :) Also that if they want to buy something, they need to save up for it because debt isn't an option :)

Thank you again for this great video, schedule inspiration! I’d love to see a video on quick, healthy and easy school lunch ideas! We usually do leftovers for lunch but end up going to pickup up fast food when we don’t have leftovers. Looking for a different routine this school year

My oldest is 8 so this encourages me of what our homeschool + chores can look like in the years to come!!

Life skills is one of things I am excited I will have the time to teach my kids. One of my reasons I homeschool.

Love the shirt. I love the EC planner. Kitchen skills are very useful and important they learn a lot I have my kid 7 help me cook and clean and he really enjoys it.

Life skills are so important. I think its wonderful that you do that and I hope this encourages other parents. My kids loved it when I started to include them in the kitchen. They were so cute, and ended up being a huge help for busy mom. 😊

Love this!!! I do a lot of this! Love your videos!! Thanks for sharing and all your hard work! You are truly inspiring!! ❤️ blessings on your new year! Do you ever find yourself setting a timer so your kids don’t take forever doing chores?

15th year here! We school year round so we can have shorter days and spend most of our day outdoors when the weather is nice.

Three weeks into homeschooling for the first time and I am loving the flexible schedule. My son got sick last week and it turned out to be appendicitis. We had to take a break from homeschooling to heal and we are slowly getting back into school now. I also appreciate that I don’t have to send him back to school while he is still in the healing process.

I think it's a great idea to teach the kids home skills and helping other's. We all know when kids grow up they will go out into the world and you don't want them to be helpless. I totally agree. Great job, Ashlee.

Thanks for all your videos. I started following you in here and Instagram beginning of summer. 21 year teacher who has decided to homeschool my 3 adopted from foster care kiddos now that they are finally adopted after long covid courts closed delay. 🙏🏼

This will be my second year, and basically I have copied all your advice. I feel like my year was so amazing because of the amazing content for homeschooling. Thank you for all you do for us mamas. I love all your videos too 😉 not just HS

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much!

@stoltzmama10

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I completely agree with his comment! A friend of mine and I were talking about high school today. I told her just go To Ashlee she will tell you everything you need to know! Thank you for sharing this journey so that we can follow and learn. I have learned so much and basically modeled my home school after yours, of course tweaking it to fit us best!

Thank you for sharing all your tips! This is my first year homeschooling (just started 3 days ago). I found your channel last year when I decided to homeschool. Thanks to you I feel organized and prepared for this journey! I got so many great ideas from you that I want to implement as well. You are an inspiration!

I love when you shared you "live intentionally"!! We live by that motto as well and I'm thankful for your videos!

Would love to see videos on what your kids do for their breakfast each day even if it isn’t always healthy. I always struggle with breakfast. Lunch would be awesome too but especially breakfast!

Love the lunch idea!

I too have basic requirements for the home lol, and am loving 4 day weeks! I have a 2nd grader and preschooler. We're two weeks in, and trying out the block schedule. We have cooking class everyday though, which is a hit 😆🤗❤❤

For some reason it’s only after this video (and I watch all of them!) that the chore system clicked. We are 3 weeks into our school year but that’s ok. Monday will be an orientation on the new chore chart 🥳😅. I’ve tried so many over complicated ideas that, of course, failed. But I really need them to have these life skills! Thank you!!

I am going to be a second year homeschooling mom this year. Last year i had zero clue what i was doing. I really enjoy your videos and they have helped me become way more organized for this school year.

First year homeschool mom here 👋🏻 … just started this past Monday! I found your channel abt three weeks ago when we decided to pull our boys out and mannnnnnn can I say you are amazing! So many videos of yours have helped in many ways! Thank you so much for all your advice and I can’t wait to continue to follow your journey! As for scheduling, I found planning one week a time was going to work best for us since being new and scheduling a yr in advance was extremely overwhelming 🤣 . Thanks again for your videos 🥰🥰 looking forward to the next ❤️

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

So happy to be able to help you!

Love you channel and all the videos you have! Would you please share more about lunch. What will you have and when do they start making lunch (when the lunch break starts or earlier)? I'm struggling with breaks and lunch

That was a perfect video I am new to home schooling I am starting off my first year with a charter school and just feel so lost from curriculum (which I’m still trying to figure out) to the schedules thank you for this video. Any ideas for a 1st grader schedule and chore wise?

Good idea to have the kids share making lunches! I always make lunches, and I hate hearing "Mom, what's for lunch?" everyday. Ugh...Breakfast, lunch and dinner really gets old after a while! I might try this out! Thanks so much Ashlee! Love your videos!

Great tips! Very helpful.

I think I need to pull back my scheduling a little bit and allow the breaks to come as needed. I have had some extra military trainings come up that fall right in the middle of the school year and I have to take time off to take my kids out of state to family in order for my husband to be able to keep working while I’m away and then more time to pick them up afterwards. It all equals out to almost 3 weeks off, each time. It worries me that I will be schooling farther into summer than I want

That's my fav planner too!

So good!!

My kids started high school and we decided to go for a 40 weeks schedule due to the rigorous curriculum they are following to prepare them for college. I enter the school day on my planner and they write it on their planners and on their lesson sheets as well. Thank you for sharing🌸📚

I have such a problem with doing everything because I love to keep a super clean and tidy home and I work really hard with 5 kids, the oldest being 6- that I would get frustrated asking them to help me that I would end up doing it anyway. I’ve been learning to loosen up and not prioritize the home over the kids because I turn around and it’s messy in 5 minutes anyway and they could’ve been using that to learn and get better. And I’m thankful to be blessed with kids who actually enjoy helping instead of complaining about chores. I’m definitely still learning!

Thank you for sharing how you plan out everything! Im wondering how you plan out lessons, I know TGTB lends itself well as open and go, but when you do your seasonal teatimes, and when you use different curriculum for your older kiddos, how do you lesson plan those? Do you use a separate planner, or write it out for each child?

Hoping to get your thoughts and input on something I've been tossing about. My son will be in Pre-K this fall. And I'm also due with his youngest sister in October (#3). Wondering if I should bother starting school either end of August or sometime in Sept or just focus on prepping for baby and start after she's born and we've recovered a bit 😂😅 I will say that both of my babies came 2-3 weeks early so I'm expecting the same with this one. Thanks so much for all you do for us homeschool mamas! You are such an amazing resource ❤️

I just want you to know that we are really close to 4 years into our homeschool journey and you are having me completely redoing all of our schedules and curriculum! I absolutely love your page so so much!! You're inspiring me to make my own videos even! We have been hopping around through the last 3 years between curriculum, schedules, etc. and I am so inspired by your videos that I feel this is the homeschool life I want!! God definitely gave you a gift with your organizing skills and your dedication. I can't imagine how awesome your faith is 🥰 Thank you for all your work and all you do. It's truly such a blessing to my life!

My hubby recently started a 2nd shift job. So I'm trying to figure out how we will plan our days once we start. It's all new. Plus we moved my mom in a month ago so that's new too. Lots of changes in our household.

My husband (who works from home) blessed us by making lunch for the 7 of us last year (I was working as an online teacher 1/2 time and homeschooling 5 kids). I have been trying to figure out what to do this year...maybe assigning a kid to each day is a good workaround. Thanks for the idea.

Thank you for sharing !

I’ve heard great things about the Anna Vance planner!!

4th year homeschool mom. My kids are still little, so instead of a binder I have a folder for every day we school. We do a 4 day homeschool week. For each folder, I put their lessons they have for the day; any workbook pages, worksheets, etc..I have a laminated schedule for each kiddo. They can cross out the subject they complete so they can see what they’ve done and how much more they need to do. I also have a folder for each kiddo for their morning basket/group subject. They seem to like it and right now it works for them.

So many great ideas! Our children have the same chores everyday. Child 1 always cleans the kitchen. Child 2 cleans the bathroom. And so on. But I like the idea of rotating. Great ideas and great video!

Love your organization! I have that same planner cover but in pastel.😊

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

Love that one!

Do you have a video on how you set up your kids’ “work flow” for their individual work so they’re doing some independent things while you are maybe working with another child?

You do so much during the day, when do you find time to film and edit your videos? Also, what do your kids do while you're filming?

Yes! I'm calculating that we should be finished by May, if so what then, in the books/ planner is school really over and done? Summer vacation can begin. New homeschooling mama 😊

You have inspired me to start a chore chart 😃

Thank you for the video! I love that comforter, please share where you got it ☺️ I also wanted to ask you if you have your kids on the same sleeping schedule during summer break? do they still go to sleep early on summer nights or do you let them stay up more late ?

I love that your kids will be making lunches for one another. Such a great idea and incorporates so much- serving one another, kitchen/cleaning skills, how to prepare a meal, make the meal, serve it, all of it! So awesome. Will you plan the lunches for the week? Or do they get to choose what’s on the menu?! Will each child decide when you make your grocery list? Are they involved in the planning/shopping?!?

I feel you on the waking up. Can't wake up before 6 either.

Great video! 👍

One possible option is to do the 4 day week for just one month a year, its not hard, especially if you are on a sabbath schedule. That's what we do. You can pick the month you need, or to suit your needs, it can be a tradition. It only equals a 1 week or 5 day break from school, but it feels huge, especially if you usually have a hectic friday. I used to be a youth director, i know about busy fridays. You could choose Monday, or Wednesday, whatever works for you. The beauty of homeschool is being able to make the schedule work.

Great! How do you organize your time with friends? You mention sth about Poetry Tea Party? How does it work?

I switched to a Plum Paper Planner this year, and love it! It is very similar to EC, but even more customizable. You can choose not only the layout, but add all sorts of different pages either in a tabbed section or spread throughout the months. They have things like fitness, meal planning, blank pages, note pages, etc. They even have a homeschool add on. I’d say EC probably has a few more “cute” cover choices, but Plum Paper does have a lot to choose from and I’ve found some I really like. It’s definitely worth a look!

@melisaserocki7250

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I am on their site now and I am blown away with all the options! I already bought my EC planner, but will bookmark Plum Paper Planner for next year.

@cesie71

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love my PPP also!! The customization is just too invaluable to me to look elsewhere. I’ve also recently discovered how to frankenplan my planner. Super useful to add in sections that even PPP doesn’t offer together yet.

Good stuff.. TY for sharing.. Would love to know your thoughts on kids in sports.. Curious what your deciding factors with all of that was/ is?? Ie: Have you and your hubby just always been into sports yourselves, and sort of choose it for your children? Or does it come down to what your children want? TY in advance 🙋‍♀️💕

I stress about breaks ! But I’m finding the same thing out!

I’m just in the midst of planning out this coming school year (we don’t start until September), so this was timely! I may have missed you talking about it, but why did you decide to move your workout back to the afternoon after doing it first thing in the morning last school year? I still find it easiest to do first thing, but I so wish I could find the time to do it midday! 😊

Great video!

I just bought one of those planners too 🤦🏻‍♀️ had no idea

Some things we flew through. Reading, for example.other things, we did not finish, such as history and social studies, but that's ok because we took extra time with some of the heavier units.

We are planning to start the same day!

I have done this with lunches as well with my kids but honestly I'm in kind of a rut. Would be interested in the kinds of lunches your kids are making.

I also have an Erin Condren planner and I got a survey recently from them. One of the questions asked about their different collaborations etc. One of the questions asked how they made you feel about the company and why. It seems like they want to hear feedback about these things. I don’t think in the end it will matter because I think enough people want to see these various virtue signaling products, but I answered honestly.

Im curious what all lil bits of things YOU do during day. Do you also do chores in morning? Do you take coffee break, etc?

I love that you're having your kids make lunch and serve it to their siblings and clean up after them, that's such an act of service and we are called to be servants as Jesus was.

I am wondering if we are going to need to do 5 day school week now as well, having an incoming 8th grader! It is SUCH a different season with older kiddos for sure! Same chores the whole school year?! That's an awesome idea! We usually swap them out weekly but year long chores would make my life easier! 😂

@pjengland286

2 жыл бұрын

I just switched to 5 days for the first time with a 6th and 7th grader.

Where did you get your lamps behind your bed? They're super cute! Also, excited to watch you guys in another homeschool year! We are starting our 6th year soon!

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

Amazon! Linked on my page under the home tab

Thanks for sharing this, I found it so helpful! Do you have any advice as far as chores go? I’m new at implementing them and my 5 kids range from 3 months to 11. We do daily things like make beds and clean rooms but I hate to say I’ve never implemented chores like this but I want to. Would you just start with one for each child? I know they will fight me on this and it will be stressful at first. I just don’t know how to go about starting a new system.

I love your videos 💖

Are your kids going to be picking the lunches or will you meal plan with each one in mind? I always struggle with lunch ideas!

Thank you for all of your videos! Question: Can I use my 529 plan to purchase homeschool materials?

I am homeschooling a 4th & 6th grader this coming year (starting Aug 30) and have been homeschooling them since they were in PreK--they've never been to public school. I also have a 2 year old running around! You've got me curious to know what the Condrin planner company has been endorsing HAHA! We basically do school 4 days a week with only fun things/specials on Fridays so we do music, art, cooking, health etc.

@jjenkins2810

2 жыл бұрын

Grace, I love the idea to do fun stuff on Friday! We do 4 days, with Friday as a light/catch up day. But I like adding the extra things on that day. Thanks for the idea

@pjengland286

2 жыл бұрын

@@jjenkins2810 I do that as well! 🙂

@pjengland286

2 жыл бұрын

Grace, I’m also with older kids and a little one. I find doing group subjects challenging. Do you have any great tips?

Can you make a video of your kids doing lunches 25:51

Thanks for sharing! This was helpful! Do you have a lunch menu? Or do they pick?

@GraceandGrit

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll have weekly selections!

I'm curious as to what lunches your kids will make. I feel like mine are stuck in a rut. They will have leftovers, grilled cheese, deli sandwiches, chicken nuggets, pizza, soup, or Mac n Cheese. As I type that out yes I realize it's not the healthiest.