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If you're a homeschool mama with a little one between 3 and 5, I want to talk you off a ledge I stood on myself: the urge to start "real" schooling way too soon. I get it. You've been dreaming about homeschooling. You've got the Pinterest boards. You watch the moms online with their color-coded curriculum binders and you feel that itch — shouldn't we be doing something? Here's what I've learned with my two kids, a seven-year-old and a three-year-old, plus a genuinely embarras