Growing an Educational Newsletter As Busy Parents
My name is Brian Perry, founder of These 16 Things. I am a Christian, husband, and father to 7 kids. My oldest is currently 14, and my youngest is 4 months. We have 4 boys and 3 girls. Our kids are homeschooled.
Once I got this project off the ground, I brought it to a friend of mine to help. He and his wife have 8 kids and also homeschool.
Both of us place a high value on teaching our kids real-life skills, so we started sending out life-skills lessons by email. We send two lessons a week. One on Monday and one on Thursday. Both lessons each week are on the same topic but are two different lessons.
Our subscribers are parents that are also wanting to teach their kids life skills - anything from finance to self-defense.
We started out with 0 subscribers in mid-January 2023, and we are currently up to about 400 subscribers.
