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School was really a waste of time, so we decided to pull our kids out and help educate them
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Through social media, I make about six figures a year. I can record my life and get paid. That's what I want to do
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There's definitely comments that, you know, mommy's money, daddy's money. This woman is teaching her daughters a worldview that is shallow and hopeless
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This is borderline child abuse. What we do? Jenny, why did you decide to pull kids out of school
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Hi. Hi. Welcome to our house. I'm Jenny, and this is my daughter, Calistabelle
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So I have four children. I have Chloe, who's 27, Colette, who's 24
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Calistabelle, who's 21, and my son, Christian, who is 17. Colette is also married
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so now we have a son-in-law, Eli. My husband, Mitch, and I have been married
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for 29 years. Our property goes way back there. We have a shooting range
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for Christian's hockey, and so we spend a lot of our time in the backyard
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Our game room, we have some basketball, pool, foosball and darts. This is our movie theater
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We built a stage for the girls to perform because they all love to perform
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I decided when the children were younger to kind of not go the traditional route
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of the public school system. Mitch and I are both very entrepreneur mindset
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My husband and I taught our kids how to be successful. What do the kids do to make money
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My children, they kind of all entrepreneur themselves. Calistabelle, she is just 100% social media influencer
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This is my favorite room, which is my bedroom. Everybody thinks it's just like a bookshelf
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but it's my closet. So you can just, little staircase comes out here
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I'm just coming. This is my favorite part of the whole house
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This was a vision of hers for probably four or five years
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My dad and mom built this whole room. Through social media I make about six figures a year My goal is to just fill up this whole thing with purses I know it a lot but I love it so much My most expensive purchase is my Chanel bag This was like or something like that
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This kind of was an impulse buy, honestly. I did make all of these purchases myself
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It's not for my daddy's money. It's for my money that I've made from social media
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I get a lot of comments saying, daddy's money. Yes, my parents do have money, but so do I
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so I do buy my own stuff. I knew I never wanted to be in a traditional job
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I never, like, my dad would talk to me, like, he would counsel people. And I was like, oh, gosh, like, I can't sit at a desk
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Like, I can't do that, Dad. So, like, me be like, oh, I can record my life and get paid
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That's what I want to do. I'm so glad that my mom pulled me out of school. You guys ready to make some brunch
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Yeah. Let's go. We'll get Christian making the pancakes. Oh. Jenny, why did you decide to pull kids out of school
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We just decided that like we wanted to be able to educate our children and be able to go and travel the world with them, take them with us
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And so the best option for us was to home educate them
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And that's what we did. I saw there was a lot of fluff time and I wanted that fluff time to be something that they were passionate about
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and I realized that put them in a public school system with nine hours a day being gone
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there wasn't a lot of time after when they would come home at four or five o'clock at night for them to actually pursue their dreams
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Is this like a typical day? Do you guys hang out in the kitchen? I would say this is pretty typical
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The kitchen and the living room are like our safe spots. Like no matter what we're doing, if like one has to do homework
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and then one has to like edit videos, we're always in like the same area and always in the same place because we just love hanging out with each other
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We just wanted to have more of that family life and slow down a little bit
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and really enjoy having the relationships with them. We're always together and I love it
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Do you want to quickly make a TikTok? Yes. I'm going to have to learn the dance real quick first
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So I don't know, which one did you want me to do? I'll show you. Okay
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Lista Ball was into social media when she was like 12 years old. She kept on asking like can I use your phone I want to make a vlog And we would go to the gym and she would just record and then she would come home and clip it and post it on Instagram And I started to realize like she really passionate about this
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Okay. Try it again. Yeah, so it's like dances like this that went viral on Christmas social media
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She follows the trends and she's like, hey mom, can you hop in this, learn a dance real quick
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And it's just simple things like that that I've done and they've gone viral. I started to be like, I love the fact that we can still get our schoolwork done throughout the day
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and then they can be creative and do what they really want to do. Oh, you did it
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Cute. Perfect. Okay. I think people also like to see the mother-daughter duo because, you know, I think that's important
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or they must like it. There's definitely comments like the way I look or things like that
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I honestly think it's funny when people comment about my mom being like a milf or hot
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because I'm just going to like, oh, well, thanks, because I'm going to be hot when I'm older. Calistabelle is the one that started TikTok for the whole family
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It's every day with the Ericsons. Take two steps back, Dad. Perfect. Go for it
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Are you okay? I don't know. That TikTok was crazy. Do you enjoy doing the TikToks with your family
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It's super fun because I get a beat up on the email a little bit. Give a few smacks and you don't want to smack me back
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You know, and I think it keeps us close. You know, that was the biggest thing I saw when we took the kids out of school
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and decided to homeschool. We wanted a tight family. We wanted to be able to, you know, help them pursue their dreams
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but be a part of their dreams as well. And not just spend time with them, but invest time
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And this has allowed us to do that. Sometimes we go through our comments. I'm going to read a few comments back to you guys
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Here's one comment. this woman is teaching her daughters a worldview that is shallow and hopeless
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i cannot imagine these children will ever find true happiness this is borderline child abuse what we do yeah so they're saying what we do is
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child abuse child abuse that a bit much yeah that kind of wild because we gearing up kids that are a blessing to society instead of a menace to society because they learning how to be self We would much rather have our children love what they do than go and make a ton of money and hate their life
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I have absolutely no regrets taking my kids out of school because I've actually seen them prosper in every single thing that they've ever wanted to do
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I mean, my children have like traveled the world. They've done more than Mitch and I did when we were 40 years old
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Dad likes his nice and toasted. I would say if you're contemplating whether or not, you know, you should homeschool or private or public
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I think you just got to figure out what are you trying to accomplish. I feel like people kind of like think that just because you're homeschooled, you don't have like a social life
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that you're just always in your home. You don't want to speak to people when you're out in public and you're like at the show, but we're actually, we're not
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But that's kind of how people like take it as it is. I feel like what you did was really amazing
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I wasn't raised, you know, in homeschooling system, but for me, I just wanted a head start on making money
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Getting to know Colette and being in the entrepreneurship family that she's in, it definitely gave me a different route that I wanted to take
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I think homeschooling is a great opportunity for a parent to be the number one influence for their kids. I mean, hands down, we were so proud of all of you guys, you know, watching you guys grow up and becoming the people that you are today
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It's been amazing. More importantly, like, I've just enjoyed every single minute raising my children
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Like, I've loved it. You know, I really hope that each one of their kids really accomplish what they've wanted to accomplish in life
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And if Mitch and I can be a part of it, that's awesome. What do you hope people will learn from watching this
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And all you single ladies. And all you single ladies out there, my number is
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My snap is . Just kidding
