Homeschooling Quadruplets: From Baby Goats to Global Nannies

KEY POINTS

•Tara Vanderveer has homeschooled her four children across Canada, the US, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Guatemala since 2020.
•Her children aged 11, 8, and twins of 4 learned real-world skills, like measuring in ounces while taking care of baby goats.
•They rely on local nannies to manage the kids during Tara’s online teaching and doctoral studies, enabling their constant travel.
•Despite broad cultural exposure, the family faces challenges with transient friendships and children unsure of where ‘home’ really is.

Tara Vanderveer, a 42-year-old remote teacher chasing her doctorate, turned pandemic homeschooling into a full-blown international tour. Since 2020, she’s been juggling teaching high schoolers online, her own PhD grind, and raising an 11-year-old, 8-year-old, plus 4-year-old twins—who learned math by milking baby goats on a Canadian farm in 2021. The Vanderveer family’s border-hopping resume includes Canada, US, Bahamas, Cuba, Guatemala, and upcoming Nicaragua trips, all made manageable by local nannies that probably deserve medals. Tara's eldest can't even answer 'Where are you from?' because the whole world is their unstable classroom. Meanwhile, guiltily avoiding the cellphone drama and lock-down boredom, she’s redefining ‘home’ one GPS ping at a time.

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Raising quadruplets WHO can’t say where ‘home’ is but can feed baby goats and play chess online: modern homeschooling, apparently acquired through global chaos and local nanny power.

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