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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
@HippyMomPhD
✨Helping Children Fall in Love with Learning♥️Tenured Professor Turned Homeschool Mom✨20+ yrs teaching, 1,000s of students. I'm better on Substack👇
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    Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️
    @HippyMomPhD
    Jun 19
    Most parents think teaching reading begins with the alphabet. It doesn’t. Learning to read begins the first time you pull a child onto your lap, snuggle into the couch, and open a book. From this place of comfort, your child learns that books are sacred. That being read to is
    ✨Falling in Love with Reading: A Joyfully Rigorous Guide to ages 5-7
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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
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    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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    Womansplainer
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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 🕊️❤️
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    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
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    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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