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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️

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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️

@HippyMomPhD

✨Tenured Professor Turned Homeschool Mom. 20+ yrs teaching, 1,000s of students. Lead Your Children to Greatness—Join me on substack👇

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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Jun 10
What happens when a former public school principal -- someone who was all in on traditional education -- pulls his own daughter out of high school to homeschool? Today, I’m talking with one of my favorite people -- @Principal_Jon , former teacher & principal turned homeschool
🎙️The Teen Who Came Alive After Leaving High School
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Sep 10, 2022
I'm a university professor who homeschools her kids Why do I not trust the school system to teach my kids? Because I study learning for a living & schools do not create independent, innovating, stewards of the future Here are the top 5 academic reasons I homeschool
Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Mar 16, 2025
I won't tell you what is right for you, but I DEEPLY regret putting my kids in daycare. I believe it harmed them emotionally & academically. I would take it back if I could. My career, which culminated in significant success & tenure, wasn't worth it.
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Feb 24, 2025
REMINDER: Kids can understand literature 2-3 grade levels above what they can read themselves. If you read them those books, it will enhance their reading comprehension, grammar, & vocabulary Reading to your kids is always a winner friends♥️
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Dec 29, 2024
Please stop saying "I can't wait for my kids to go back to school so I don't have to be with them anymore" It's not funny, I don't relate, & your kids can HEAR you
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
May 4, 2025
If I could do it again👇 -More Kids -More Land -NO Daycare -NO cry-it-out -Read to them more -2nd Language Immersion -Classical Education from Start What would you do different?
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Oct 17, 2025
As someone who has done both daycare & homeschooling - daycare was absolutely raising my kids. They were like different children after I pulled them out. Daycare remains the biggest regret of my life.
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Oct 16, 2025
Hot take: daycare is totally fine in principle, and having your kid(s) in it is not “having someone else raise them.”
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Jul 10, 2025
Children in the early 1900s grew up on books with beautiful language & delicious vocabulary. So many modern children's books talk down to children. Your children deserve better❤️
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Jan 2, 2025
CHANGE MY MIND: The focus on Calculus in high school is antiquated & only serves students headed for STEM Most kids would be FAR better served by deeper statistics & financials, helping them run businesses & invest their money
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Jul 22, 2025
If your kid doesn't know their math facts COLD, they can't do upper division math Learning math facts ages 10+ is possible but kids' brains are more receptive when less than 8 (yes, really) I know you don't want to... but your kid NEEDS you to help them learn math facts♥️
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Sep 22, 2025
I'm starting to think sports teams are bad for families. They suck up all of our time & money, and teach our kids that the whole world should revolve around them. Sports in general are incredible & teach many invaluable lessons. But the modern iteration of them is not good
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Sep 10, 2022
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3. Mixed-age settings promote learning & kindness Mixed-age learning is any environment where younger & older students learn together Studies show that mixed-age settings increase learning for both groups because the older students teach the younger You learn most by teaching
Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Nov 14, 2024
HOT TAKE: Most kids don't need grammar lessons, they need great books Kids naturally pick up their native language's grammar through reading & speaking with proper grammar Some lessons on punctuation (commas, etc.) is all that is necessary - sentence diagramming is useless
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
Jun 2, 2025
It was hard taking toddlers out to eat with no screens, but now they eat and talk with us for hours at nice restaurants. It was hard taking toddlers on long-drives without screens, but now they’ve been across the country and back (60 hours)—reading, talking, imagining whole
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