Matt Beaudreau

Parents- I have something to say that you may want to wrap your mind around. Lean on in. Ready? You. Are. Their. Curriculum. When you finally grasp that, everything changes.

Micro-school founders: Stop trying to build the best school in town. Build the most connected tribe in town, & focus on things that conveyor belt schools don’t. Any educator worth their salt knows K-12 academics can be breezed through in 1-2 hours a day. Build accordingly.

Lots of men playing pretend. It’s easier to read the next trendy book and post than it is to do the work. That said; even I have more respect for those pretenders, than for those who scour the internet trolling the pages of strangers or talking about those they’ve never met.

The best curriculum for kids is answering their questions and encouraging their curiosity.

One of the best psych operations in our culture: Convince parents that the government should school their child for “free” from 5-18, then they should cosign on a 6 figure loan to continue the game. Many are convinced it’s smart, & believe going another route is dangerous. 🤯

Your kids are a gift to you. The way you raise them ends up being, in part, a gift from you to the world. If you outsource much of that for the sake of an easier adulthood, you miss the opportunity to fully receive & give those gifts. Not a trade off I’m willing to make.

Micro-school owners! Imagine connecting your students to other micro-school campuses in friendly competition for scholarships and prizes. Imagine your parents engaged in their own personal development, also competing for scholarships and prizes. 2026. Let the games begin.

I love this Munger quote: “In my whole life I’ve never been very good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work”. Now- relate that to being a spouse, parent, being healthy, or business. Part of getting better at those is WANTING to get better at those.

Highly recommend. 👇

I’ve heard versions of this for years. “If you want change, why don’t you get involved from the inside, or show up to the ______meeting & let your voice be heard?” Many have continued to do exactly that. How have these systems changed for the better? Build the alternative.

Adults watching videos of other adults nodding their heads in agreement with other adults. Kids watching videos of other kids playing & commenting on a video game universe. Incremental steps further & further from living a real life in a real world with real thoughts. Weird.

✅Reading & great conversations. ✅Participating in family spending, cash flow, & investing. ✅Chores. Jobs outside of home. ✅Exercise, sleep, sun, & real food. ✅Surrounded by good humans. ✅No smart phones or video games & limited screens. This is the “curriculum”.

No such thing as a perfect dad or husband. That said; I want to be better at both than I was yesterday. I also want to be better at both of those than you are. Yup, that’s a competition I made up. And Apogee is putting prizes to it. I invite you to battle against me.

I support free will. If you want soda, candy, & fast food in the house for your kids, that’s your right. If you have those things & want to talk about being committed to their health, needing ADHD meds, or behavioral issues, I’ll use my free will to tell you that’s ridiculous.

One of the most common questions about our home Ed community: “What’s a day look like?” Answer? “What do you want the day to look like?” Their response to that is always telling. Freedom to grow is so foreign to most people that they’re frightened by the possibility of it.

Influencer culture is strange, but BEING influential is part of leading. The former is something I don’t need my kids being wrapped up in. They aren’t on social media. The latter means I live my life in a way that makes me the most influential man in their lives. On purpose.

Parent Survey- Spoiler: The answer is “both, to the best of your ability”. The game, though, is to pick the ONE you think matters most. Is it more important to give kids a plethora of great examples to follow & habits to develop, or to keep the bad examples & habits away?

We don’t need to trick kids into learning. If we are relying on trickery, bribery, and hope, it’s likely because we are disconnecting learning from life, or distracting them with irrelevant temptations. Learning is like breathing. It’s necessary, and doesn’t resemble school.

Repeat after me: Mom and Dad growing and taking the kids along for the ride means the kids grow, too. Mom and Dad growing and taking the kids along for the ride means the kids grow, too. Say it over and over and over and over. Then, live it.

We are so far from a perfect family, but I get excited for good people to meet my kids. I’m so proud of who they are as humans. Again- far from perfect, but they’re objectively good people. I don’t need outside validation to know that, but it sure is fun to say…”Told ya”.