You are completely inadequate to homeschool, according to the world. Don’t be intimidated. Your natural ability to instruct your kids along with your will to succeed, and the simplicity to do so, cannot be reproduced in mass. And that is intimidating to the system. And your authority and mandate to homeschool comes from higher power.
A hilarious list of 101 homeschool lies we tell ourselves under the pressure for perfection and the desire for the outside world to pat us on the back. Dreams of educational success lead to grand expectations and impossible goals we can’t begin to complete when life gets in the way.
Academic pursuit is a stationary exercise. Homeschooling is making me fat. As the kids age and their academic demand increases, so does the surface area of the homeschool mom’s rear end. Homeschool moms must get creative to keep moving as the kids get older. Here are some possible ways to get moving…
10:28pm: Bedtime The moment we’ve all mom has been waiting for… Kids are tucked in bed under threat. Hubs is already working up to a soft growling snore. It’s “Me Time.”(i.e. the twilight zone (see homeschool nightmares) for everything I, and the world, forgot to...
Think of the main, honest reason you homeschool. If you could only give one answer, what would it be? Do we all have a different answer or are there common reasons we homeschool? Apparently, this is a difficult question, because when I asked this question on social...
You might be a “Hifalutin Homeschooler”… if you believe you can do a better job overseeing your kid’s education than any school system. Or if you’ve seen the village and don’t want it raising your kids. Hifalutin-(southern slang) showing arrogance,...
…writer & speaker of homeschool truth, humor and inspiration. Laugh along as I keep things ‘real’ about life as homeschool family. Turns out…you don’t have to raise goats or wear denim jumpers after all!