Need to Learn How to Homeschool?

Let's face it - learning how to homeschool is like a writer looking down at a blank page, and a blank page can make anyone feel overwhelmed, so looking at your child's educational future starts to feel downright impossible when you're just in the planning stages.

But take a step back for a moment and follow along with me on a how to homeschool journey...

Imagine your 12 year old daughter comes home from her first week in a new middle school and informs you there was an incident in the classroom.

It doesn't matter what the incident is, just that it was "somewhat" significant.

You call the principal to get some answers and he downplays it. Nothing happened, we called security, everyone was fine, and no one got hurt, blah blah blah.

What do you do? Well, most people send them back the next day. So you do this because no one got hurt, everyone was fine, and nothing really happened.

And you let it go.

Until later the next day when you start wondering if perhaps there will be another incident and you call back. You get the same story, only this time you're not really willing to only pay attention to the outcome, you actually ask for answers as to HOW this happened.

The principal gets defensive, after all - YOU are just a parent who had NO idea what goes on in school all day. HE is the PRINCIPAL.

You hang up and think about this for a moment. Your child comes home later and looks distressed. Her "friends" are in "situations" and are doing "questionable activity" she tells you.

You retell the tale of the principal to her, (You don't have a husband to talk to - you are a single mom) and ask how she feels about things. She shrugs.

You say in an off the cuff manner "Well if this happens again - we're gonna just have to learn how to homeschool!"

She perks up, "Can we please?"

You technically, due to whatever reason, have the time, but you know nothing about it. Do you say "No, go on back to school and suck it up?" or do you tell yourself "Learning how to homeschool can't be THAT bad?" >

You call your friends and family and they encourage you. You feel a bit empowered so you do some research. There seems to be a lot of information, and so because you are a go-getter who walks to the beat of her own drum, you tell your daughter yes, yes we can learn how to homeschool, and we can do it together.

That really happened to me almost 10 years ago. I knew nothing, but I am a quick learner. I had no money but my mother supported the idea and said she would help provide the materials. I had never spent so much time with my kids before but I was missing them. So we did it.

I made LOTS of mistakes and wasted quite a bit of my mother's money along the way, but it was my own personal journey into the world of homeschooling.

Now this stuff is all second nature to me, I know dozens of good curriculums and even more bad ones! I've learned most of it the hard way but I'm happy to pass my trials and tribulations along. I've graduated one child, that daughter who so innocently started it all, and get almost all my personal pleasure from my youngest who is now in the 6th grade.

Pardon my grammar - but it ain't easy to get started! It ain't easy to take on such a huge responsibility, I mean teaching your children EVERYTHING they need to know? Isn't that crazy?

No it really isn't, it's SO NATURAL that once you get started you'll wonder how your friends and neighbors can stand not being 100% involved with their child's education. Seriously! And I really want you to know that if you stick with me and click on, I will deliver a plan that ANYONE can follow.

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