coffee and conversations: i want to homeschool. now what?, october 7

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If there'southward annihilation I've learned about homeschooling, it'due south that I've spent style too much time worrying about it.

Any beau worriers out there?

Nosotros but reached a major milestone on our journeying and graduated our oldest son. (Go us!) It'south been an emotional month looking back over the last nine years. At the risk of sounding like one of those old cliché moms, it went past so fast.

It actually did.

Amazing how yous can get from wondering when it will stop to wondering where it all went. I'1000 officially a veteran homeschool mom. Go figure?!

When all was said and done none of the worrying I did over the years ever helped my son succeed. Worrying never solved anything.

Information technology never fabricated anything on the journeying easier. It only ever made things harder.

My youngest son is going into 7th form in the fall, and I'm resolving to worry less on this last stretch I accept with him.

Bring together me in letting go of homeschool mom worries. Here'due south a fresh list to get you lot started!

1. Teaching Loftier Schoolhouse

I spent the majority of my homeschooling journeying worrying about what homeschooling high school would be like. It's intimidating, no?

How will I teach calculus and chemistry?

The respond is uncomplicated. You won't!

At least not if you don't desire to anyway. In that location are so many resources available to homeschooling families that it's easy to outsource any subjects y'all're not comfortable education. Retrieve, there will ever be a way to teach what you don't know. Don't let fear of loftier school keep yous from enjoying the all-time years of the homeschooling journey. I loved homeschooling high school. It'south not equally scary as yous think!

2. Preschool

On the other terminate of the spectrum, let's not go carried away worrying about "homeschooling preschool."

Every once in a while I'll see some version of this question pop up in a homeschooling Facebook group: "I just started homeschooling my 3-yr-onetime. What curriculum do you recommend?"

Sigh…

Play-doh. I recommend Play-doh.

I don't annotate because what I really want to type in response is something along the lines of Seriously? Three?

Read aloud, pretend play, color, create, lookout Mitt Patrol. Heck! NAP with your 3-year-onetime. (I'm sure you lot could use information technology). Soak up every single second of this stubby finger stage y'all can because these precious years are fleeting and yous don't want to waste them worrying almost "homeschooling" your toddler.

But I don't say any of that because it's a Facebook group and we all know how scary those can be.

Moms of little ones, merely be the rockin' mama you are. That's the only lesson needed for now!

3. Other Homeschool Moms

"Comparison is the thief of joy." ~Theodore Roosevelt

Isn't that the truth?

Other homeschool moms can be intimidating. Conversations around the co-op coffee pot tin be a little overwhelming at times. 1 mom swears by the Charlotte Bricklayer method; another mom believes unschooling is the way to go. Some moms buy school in a box, and other moms dutifully piece together the perfect unit studies for free at the local library. Online classes or not? This publisher or that publisher? Ahhh!!!

It is and so piece of cake to fall into the comparison trap in the homeschooling community. Practice what works for your family unit and experience skilful about information technology. Period!

4. Naysayers

There will always be people that don't sympathize your conclusion to homeschool. They come up in all shapes and sizes. Family unit, friends, strangers in line at Target.

But allow it get and relish your journey. You can't modify others' opinions, and you're not homeschooling your children to testify anything to anyone. It's simply a lifestyle choice. Embrace it! Exist proud. Homeschooling is NOT an easy job!

5. Keeping the House Clean

I used to be an excellent housekeeper. Then I started homeschooling. The end.

You'd recollect considering y'all're home all day that yous'd have enough of time to clean up the place, but yous'd exist wrong.

Greg Rakozy

Information technology's simply the reverse, actually. Existence dwelling house all day but means you're never able to clean anything because humans are always in that location! Add together homeschooling on height of the everyday circus that is your household, and you lot've got an fifty-fifty bigger mess.

No matter how difficult yous try, there will ever be dirty dishes in the sink. (This is feeling a fleck like a life mantra at the moment.)

6. Finishing Every Lesson in the Book

At the outset of every school year, I become a fresh new planner and sit down with a tall stack of crispy curriculum. Then I proceed to torture myself with this very broken lesson planning technique. Maybe you tin can chronicle?

I immediately wait to see how many total lessons there are and separate that number by thirty (weeks of school) and so I divide that number by 4 (days a week) and voila! I have lesson plans. This gives me a rough idea of how many lessons I need to complete each week to finish the curriculum. Or so I call back.

Information technology takes nigh one week for this program to fall apart. And so you know what I practise? I do it all over again.

How many lessons are left? Split up. Divide.

This happens near 758 times during the school yr, and we never finish. Ever.

Complete what you can. Do your best. (Nobody always finishes every lesson!)

seven. Socialization

I admit I practise worry about this some, but it'due south a waste of fourth dimension.

My boys take never been extremely social, and that doesn't have anything to practice with homeschooling!

Mind, your kids are who they are. They're going to make friends. They'll become out into the world in their ain time, and when they do, the right people will love and appreciate them for who they are. It'south really that uncomplicated!

What are the homeschool mom worries you'd add to the listing?

Adrienne Bolton

Adrienne Boltonis a freelance writer and veteran homeschool mom. She began homeschooling in 2009 to come across the needs of her oldest son who struggled with the public school setting. Her boys have had different experiences with homeschooling, but both have thrived in spite of her. Her oldest son transitioned from public school after fourth grade and her youngest is 100% homegrown, having never stepped human foot in a traditional classroom. Now with 1 son in college and ane working his style through high school, she is proof anyone can do this. She writes with humor and middle, brindled with occasional snark and sarcasm. When she is not writing or working you can find her with a expert volume in mitt, snuggling her massive Pitbull fur infant, or making something yummy in the kitchen. She loves to cook, broil, and be outdoors in the sunshine. The beach is her happy place and she's a true flip-flop wearing Florida girl. Connect with her on Instagram and Facebook.

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Source: https://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/7-homeschool-mom-worries-let-go-right-now/