One Lesson, Start to Finish
No jargon and no course to complete first. Here is exactly what you do with Stanfield at your kitchen table, how long it takes, and how to fit it into a week you have already planned.
Five Steps, About Half an Hour
Every program in the library follows the same shape, so once you have taught one lesson you can teach any of them.
Pick the lesson
Open a program and take the next lesson in order. The guide states the objective in a sentence, so you know what the lesson is for before you press play. Two minutes.
Watch the video together
Actors play out a real situation — asking a stranger for help, handling a coworker who takes credit, reading how close is too close to stand. Most lessons show the skill going wrong first, then going right.
That contrast is the whole method. Your child sees the difference instead of being told about it, which is why this works for learners who tune out a lecture. Five to ten minutes.
Talk about what happened
The guide gives you the discussion questions, written out. You are never sitting there inventing what to ask, and you do not need a background in special education to run it. Read the prompt, listen to the answer, follow where it goes. Five to ten minutes.
Practise it
Role-play the scene with your child, or print the worksheet and work it at the table. Both are in the plan — use whichever suits the day and the child. Skills like this stick through rehearsal, not through being explained once. Ten minutes.
Mark it covered
Tick the lesson off. Over a term that becomes a record of what you have actually taught, which you can export if a co-op, an evaluator or a therapist ever asks what you have been doing.
Two Lessons a Week Is Plenty
This is not a subject that needs a daily slot. Families who get the most out of it treat it like a short, regular habit.
One lesson, one practice
Teach a new lesson early in the week, then revisit the same skill later in the week with the worksheet or a second role-play. Repetition on one skill beats racing through five.
Name it when it happens
The real teaching happens at the shop, at the family dinner, in the waiting room. Once your child has language for a skill, you can point at it in the wild — and that is when it transfers.
Look back
Skim what you have covered and pick the next program. Life skills are not linear like maths — you follow the thing your child is running into now.
If you have more than one child, the plan covers up to three learners, and a good many of these lessons are better with two. Watching a sibling get the scenario wrong on purpose is often the best part.
Which Program First?
You get all 26+ of them, so this is only about what to open on day one. Start with whatever your child is actually bumping into.
What This Isn't
Worth knowing before you pay us anything
- Your child cannot work through it alone. You drive the lesson. A self-paced student mode is being built, but it is not here, and we would rather you find that out now than in week two. There's a waitlist on the main homeschool page.
- It is not a full curriculum. This is life skills — boundaries, conflict, independence, work. It sits beside your maths and your reading; it does not replace them.
- No accreditation, credits or grades. Nothing here counts toward a transcript on its own. You get a record of what you covered, which is a different thing.
- No printed materials. Everything streams or downloads. If you want paper, you print it.
- English only. There is no Spanish edition yet.
The Ones We Actually Get Asked
What ages is this for?
Roughly 5 through adult, depending on the program. Circles Elementary and BeCool Lower Elementary sit at the young end; Transitions and Home Of Your Own are aimed at older teenagers and young adults. Because you choose the program, you are not locked to a grade level — plenty of families use an older program with a younger child, or the reverse.
Do I need to know special education?
No. The guides tell you what to say and what to ask. Most of these programs were written for classroom teachers with no special-ed background either.
Do I have to use the guides?
No — a fair number of teachers ignore them and teach straight off the video. They are there when you want the structure.
How many children does one plan cover?
Up to three learners on the one $9.99 a month plan.
What happens with my child's data?
Learners are identified by a display name and nothing else. No email, no date of birth, no student ID. We do not collect it because we do not need it.
What does the free trial actually involve?
Thirty days of the whole library. We hold a card to keep your place and charge nothing until day 30. Cancel before then and you are not billed.