Wealth Affirmation #3: “I Am an Educational Investment Magnet" Homeschool Budgrt Breakthrough [Attracting Money for Educational Expenses and Field Trips]

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What if you never had to say,

we can't afford that educational

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opportunity ever again?

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Today's affirmation will shift

your energy from educational

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limitation to educational abundance.

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Let's start the show.

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Intro: A fast growing number

of parents are starting their

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homeschooling journey while others

have been homeschooling for years.

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All of these parents are asking one big

question, how can I afford to homeschool?

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We are here to answer that

important question once and for all.

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Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.

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And I'm Anthony Obby.

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We've been homeschooling our five

kids for 13 years and we funded it.

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Through our online consulting business

that we've been running for over 17

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years now, we're combining Crystal's

financial coaching expertise with my

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digital marketing background where I help

entrepreneurs launch and sell online.

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We're here to help fellow homeschooling

parents self-fund their homeschool

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journey and create lifestyle businesses.

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For financial freedom without a nine to

five job, are you ready to start living

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life on your own terms and make your

homeschooling experience a lot more fun?

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Well then sit back, crank up

the volume, and enjoy this

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episode of Homeschool Money.

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Hey guys.

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Welcome to the Homeschool Money podcast.

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I'm your host, Anthony Oby.

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I'm Crystal Oby, and we have an

exciting affirmation for you today.

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This affirmation goes like this.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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This affirmation really matters

because educational opportunities a

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lot of times come with price tags and

hesitating due to money limits your

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child's potential when you become

a magnet for educational funding.

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You remove financial barriers from

your children's learning journey

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and open doors to experiences that

could shape their entire future.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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So when we were getting ready to do

this episode, we were talking about

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how this kind of plays out in our life,

and it made me think about how one of

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the biggest resources we have is how

I take the kids to the park and hang

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out with other moms that are co-ops.

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And that's probably been one of the

biggest opportunities that we've had here

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in our homeschooling journey as far as

finding more educational opportunities.

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And so.

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At the beginning of the school year,

what I do is I write down what we

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want the kids to do, like if there's

some places we want to go or some

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activities we wanna take part in.

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Or just anything that we're wanting

to do to enhance our educational

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journey in any type of year.

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And I just keep that list.

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And then whenever I go to the park

and take the kids and I'm sitting

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there talking to the moms and

everything, we always compare notes.

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And so it's like, okay, does anybody know

anything about how I can, you know, help

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my kid learn this or figure this out?

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And it's so fun to hang

out with other moms because

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everybody's doing the same thing.

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It's a really.

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You know, just amazing experience

to have other moms in your life

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who are on the same journey and

are really, you know, helpful.

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And so what I find is my friends will,

they'll be looking out for things.

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They'll say, Hey, I heard that your son

is into this and I was at this other

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event and I picked up a flyer and took a

picture of it and I'm gonna send to you

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so that you can get this for your kid.

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There's not a lot of gatekeeping.

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If you get into the right

groups and have really great

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friends, you're gonna find that.

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Everybody is trying to get better things

for their kids, and they'll be willing

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to share those experiences with you.

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And so some of the moms would tell

me about things I hadn't thought of.

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Like for example, if one of my kids

was in interested in dance and I'm just

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thinking, oh, I'm gonna do the typical

dance classes and things like that.

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There's some people who.

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Uh, keep their eye open for activities.

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And we had one friend that actually

ended up hosting a dance event and

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just putting it together because one

thing that has been happening is if

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we wanna do something and it's not

actually even on the calendar, the moms

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will just put it together ourselves.

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And so it's not just about being

able to have something to do

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that is already scheduled and

having to have the money for it.

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It's also about having the resources to be

able to just make it happen for yourself.

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Sometimes our conversations lead

us to just planning it, doing it

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ourselves, and then inviting other

kids in and other families in.

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Now, back to the show.

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A big part of being an educational

investment magnet is sharing what you're

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looking for and knowing what you're

looking for, and that's what we talk

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about that in our Homeschool Money

Makeover program is because if you

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are focused on and clear on what it is

that you want, then when you're having

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conversations and the topic comes up to.

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Something that you're interested

in, you can actually say, oh

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yes, I'm interested in that.

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Oh yes, I'd like to do that.

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And a lot of times,

opportunities come very quickly.

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There's some times where, you know,

maybe we, 'cause we have, you know, five

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kids, and so we'll have five tickets

or seven tickets to go someplace.

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So if we can't go.

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If we say, Hey, our family can't go,

that's a lot of times worth two families.

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You know, one family with three people,

and one family with four people can

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take our spot and say you're wanting

to go to a performance that's happened

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before where there's a performance

going on and somebody has extra tickets

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that they not gonna be able to use.

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Because you know what you're looking for.

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You can say, Hey, I wanna go ahead and

take that, and you take it last minute.

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And that happens a lot.

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Online with social media, people will post

and say, Hey, I have leftover tickets.

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I'm not gonna be able to use them.

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You can take them and so you can

end up with tickets to things and.

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Opportunities and resources if you're

clear about what it is you want.

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And also, of course, here on the show

we talk about just making more money to

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be able to afford to do what you want.

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But many times the opportunities can

just come right to you if you are aware.

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Of what you're looking for.

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And you also share that with other people.

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And whenever you create an

environment with your, with your

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friends, your neighbors, your co-ops,

where everybody's doing that, then

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everybody's kids are getting a better

experience in the whole community.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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So there's a common block.

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The resistance here often comes

from feeling guilty about spending

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money on education when free options

exist, or like believing that good

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education shouldn't cost money.

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This making do mentality, quote unquote,

keeps you from investing in your

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children's highest potential and limits

their exposure to excellent resources that

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could be better and uplevel your child,

your children's educational experience.

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Yeah, I like to say what would

be the best case scenario?

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Like if we want our kids to learn

something, what's the best case scenario?

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What's the best opportunity available?

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Yeah.

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And if we can get it, let's get it.

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And if we can't, okay, then

what's the next best opportunity?

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Yeah.

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And then.

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Keep working our way down.

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And in some topics you're gonna

wanna go for the ultimate best.

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Like if it's their real passion,

you wanna go go to the top.

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But if it's something they're

kind of dibbling and dabbling in,

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then you can say, Hey, we can just

stick our toe in and we don't have

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to have the best of everything.

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'cause there are different levels.

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And whenever you think about investing in

your child's education, you have to make.

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Concession someplace, there's trade-offs

and so there may be times where you

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need a bigger budget to go all in.

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Like I know a lot of people in their,

their kids' sports, they do, they

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spend a lot of money in that, or

instruments and music or, you know,

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just different hobbies that they have

that could actually turn into something.

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You wanna go all in and get all the

equipment that they need, the, the

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teaching, the tutoring that they need,

and give them plenty of time and take

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them on the trips that they need to go on.

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And don't feel bad about doing that

because one thing that's for sure is

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the better quality education that you

give your child while they're young,

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the better outcome they'll have later.

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Because if you go ahead and

invest into them now, they'll

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be set up to do better later.

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And so whenever they're working

hard as younger, young kids and

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then teenagers, they're gonna be.

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That much farther ahead when they're

18, 19, 20, and be able to build

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careers off of what they're doing.

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I know we talk to people who do tutoring.

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And sometimes we'll talk to people who

are maybe 25, 30 years old and they've

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been saying, well, I'm tutoring because

I've been doing this for 15 years.

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And it's like, well,

how old are you again?

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Yeah.

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And they're like, well, I, I started doing

this whenever I was a, a, you know, a

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teenager and now I'm a young adult, and

they're running full tutoring businesses

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because they have the expertise, they

have the professionalism, and now they're

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creating full incomes because of that.

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And a lot of people.

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We'll not have those skills whenever

they're in their twenties, and so they're

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just kind of flip flopping around, still

trying to figure out what they're good at.

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But here in homeschooling we get a chance

to invest in our children's passions

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and their skills so much earlier and

even let them go to college earlier.

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To where whenever they're young adults,

they can be very financially set up and

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clear on their passions, their goals, and

just the direction that they wanna take

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life, which also gives them a lot better

mental health and better time to work on

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relationships and their physical health.

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And so homeschooling is just helps

on so many different levels and

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going ahead and investing in the

better pencils or the, the, the, the

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nice class or the full curriculum.

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Right now, while the child is

young can just make all the

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difference for their adulthood.

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That's right.

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Money flows to me to fund my children's

educational dreams, I easily attract

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the resources needed for field trips.

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Quality curriculum, educational

experiences, and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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You didn't choose to homeschool to give

your children a mediocre education.

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You chose to give them

an extraordinary one.

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Money is simply the tool that turns

educational dreams into reality.

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Trust that when you invest in

your children's minds, you always

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have the opportunity to grow

in your ability to pay for it.

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