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Is Homeschooling Making the Grade? It’s in and the Grade is ALL Fs!

May 8, 2018 | 5 Comments
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Successfully homeschooling is not easy. Ask a homeschool mom and she’ll admit many days are tougher than she thought in the beginning. Is homeschool worth it? Is homeschooling making the grade?

After 20+ years of homeschooling and having my third homeschool high school graduate this year, I’m here to tell you that the grade is in and it’s all Fs.

Is Homeschooling Making the Grade?

What is there to not love when emphasis is put on Family-style learning? Public school only Feigned an interest in our child.

Children are not Forgotten or left behind. There is no worrying about the no child left behind law because your emphasis is on the individual needs of your children ahead of standards for the masses.

At first, you don’t appreciate your new Found Freedom or Flexibility.

Trying to follow the public school schedule is normal albeit Foolish. You left the public school because it didn’t Fit your educational philosophy until somebody Finally asks you why would you mimic something that is not working. Is that the meaning of insanity?

Then, you Figure out that there are no homeschool police lurking around the corner. Determined to Face the odds and not overly worry about ruining your child’s Future, you learn to savor precious moments, relax, and take one year at a time.

Homeschooling is about doing what is right and Fine for your family. You have choices to homeschool with an attitude Full of Faith or use Faith-Free curriculum.

It takes a Few years to get past the guilt you have because your Firstborn was your guinea pig. Instead of playing and nurturing a Fidgety child’s need to move you made the Formative years too Formal.

Understanding that you First learn to parent a 2 year old or 3 year old by Focusing on Fun, you have to Forgive yourself for new bee mistakes.

Always worrying if your children are behind is Frightening and Finally you let go of Fear.

Doubters told you that homeschooling wasn’t for the Fainthearted. Embracing a Feisty and Ferocious attitude, you learned to squelch the naysayers, embrace the years when everything went wrong, and to be energized and Fortified when your kids moved ahead two grade levels in a Few months.

After many years of homeschooling you know that you’ve Fueled your kids love for learning although you felt like a Fool. It took a while for the Feelings of Failure to leave, but through homeschool Friendships you gained a new homeschool Family and a renewed Focus.

Reflecting isn’t easy, but you learned to stretch Forward and measure success through every day interaction with your kids. No longer looking to public school as an option for education, you’re absolutely sure that your mommy curriculum you Fussed over year after year Fosters a true love of learning.

Sure, you try to Fuel that same can-do spirit of how to teach in new homeschooling moms, but you realize they only want to talk about choosing curriculum. Finding answers for their family is their job.

From Fanatical to Formidable Homeschooler

Helping to Fortify new homeschool educators is what I can do. Learning is not a small window of time that quickly closes and progress is a journey measuring year to year and not day to day. Through all the Fatigue, Frustration, and Financial strain you wouldn’t change one Fiery moment.

When you Finish the Formal part of your homeschool years, you know how Fulfilled, Fantastic, and Fearsome you truly are now!

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Why Buying Curriculum Won’t Make You a Homeschooler (But What Will)

March 27, 2018 | Leave a Comment
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You should have seen it! It was the newest hyper speed printer you’ve ever seen in a homeschool household. I kept it busy night and day printing hefty 3-inch binders full of every subject I could dream of to teach my then preschoolers. At the end of three months when it was time to start my first official day of homeschool, I was already burned out. Buying curriculum and printing everything I could find on the internet didn’t anymore make a homeschooler than buying my son’s first car made him an experienced driver.

You couldn’t have convinced me then that unless I had purchased curriculum, I wasn’t a full member of the national unified happy homeschoolers society. (No, there is no such club.)

So You Call Yourself a Homeschooler, Uh

Instead of focusing on buying curriculum, which is only part of the homeschool puzzle, I should’ve been educating myself on homeschool approaches, my definition of education, and trusting a child’s natural bent to learn.

Why Buying Curriculum Won't Make You a Homeschooler (But What Will)

Curriculum seems to be the hallmark of identifying yourself as a homeschooler. While it’s important to have curriculum, I’v learned that:

curriculum doesn’t really teach anything,
you need very little to get started,
focusing on the three Rs – reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic is the starting point,
subjects like history, geography, art, and science can wait for a for while as you focus on the three Rs,
understanding what is the homeschool lifestyle is of much more importance, and
understanding what is NOT homeschooling is just as important as calling yourself a homeschooler.

How to Instantly Become a Homeschooler

You don’t have to wait long to become a homeschooler. It’s not buying curriculum that advances you; it is about adopting ideas from the homeschool lifestyle.

One common weave of all successful homeschoolers is that they think out of the box. Determined to not follow the same method of teaching that wasn’t working in public school, a true homeschooler takes time to know her children first. Then, she finds curriculum to meet her needs. She doesn’t buy curriculum then make her family adjust to it.

True homeschoolers appreciate quickly that:

they’re free to choose when and how they learn,
they can set their own deadlines,
more emphasis can be given to their child’s interests,
lessons can be short and still be rigorous,
kids are encouraged to be problem solvers and independent thinkers,
the day and lesson plans can be flexible,
traveling is part of the homeschool lifestyle and
that kids do learn by living.

Although we say it all the time, a true homeschooler takes time to understand how curriculum is a tool. A tool can wield great power and hurt others if the user does not know how to use it well. Like any dangerous tool in our home, we take time to read the instructions well and take great care when using any tools around our kids.

However. new homeschoolers pick up curriculum and command it with such force and that if their kids have trouble, they question first the child instead of the homeschool approach or curriculum. When completing curriculum is set up as the absolute measure of a child’s progress instead of measuring progress individually, a child could be left feeling worthless.

Unintentionally, the harm at home may become worse than what was going on in public school.

Like any tool, sometimes it needs to be used longer, other times it needs to be put down. It reminds me of baking bread. At times, I need to use my kitchen tools and other times I put it away and use my hands. Using my hands is the only way I can tell how well the dough mixed and the consistency of it.

Teaching is the same. If we never take a hands-on approach to our child’s learning, learn to put down the curriculum and change things in the curriculum fit our child, we will never have a pulse for how our child is advancing. Homeschooling will be a struggle from the start and stay hard period.

Use free online curriculum like Easy Peasy All In One to find a true starting point for buying curriculum. I know some homeschoolers who use Easy Peasy primarily and supplement it. Personally, I prefer to buy curriculum and supplement with free curriculum because I want to hand pick curriculum that is unique to each child’s strength.

Also, true homeschoolers avoid the thinking that all of their kids have to use the same math or language arts program. One sanity saving tip is for your kids to learn together. However, you’ll want to take time to understand which subjects can easily be taught together and which subjects are best learned separately. Look at the tips here on my post Skill Subjects vs. Content Subjects: What’s the Difference.

Besides using free curriculum and free online tests to gauge a starting point, a seasoned homeschooler includes her child’s interest as part of her curriculum. When a child comes from public school they’ve been taught to take a passive approach to learning. In otherwords, the teacher dictated the lesson plans and subjects.

Although a child may have been a good public school student, had excellent grades, and be responsible, he was not a partner in lesson making. This concept may seem offensive to the average public school teacher. To a homeschool mom, the concept of including a child in what interests him and how he learns is the first step to independent learning. We’ve learned that an obedient child doesn’t always equal a child interested in learning lifelong. It just means they learned to do what was necessary to get by or to have good grades.

Intrinsic learning happens by independent learning. By giving choices to our kids, we seem them as a partner to their learning and not a passive bystander.

My bountiful binders full of printing material cost me a fortune to print and cost more in stress. Only doing a handful of the worksheets, I learned quickly that preschoolers learn best by doing and not by all the school-ish things I had got ready. Thankfully, my misguided exuberance didn’t mess my sons up for life.

Why Buying Curriculum Won't Make You a Homeschooler (But What Will). You should have seen it! It was the newest hyper speed printer you've ever seen in a homeschool household. I kept it busy night and day printing hefty 3-inch binders full of every subject I could dream of to teach my then preschoolers. At the end of three months when it was time to start my first official day of homeschool, I was already burned out. Buying curriculum and printing everything I could find on the internet didn't anymore make a homeschooler than buying my son's first car made him an experienced driver. Click here to read how to become a homeschooler!

I had time to change my attitude to appreciate that buying curriculum did not a homeschooler make.Have you made the same mistake?

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Public School is NOT Free! (but neither is homeschool)

October 4, 2016 | 2 Comments
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Every summer when the boys were little, we packed up and headed to sunny Florida to tour those free tours of new condos to buy. All we had to do was go through a tour and listen to the sales pitch. They were sort of like those time sharing condos, but you really owned the condos instead of paying a fee to share it. The condos were super nice with granite counter tops, huge swimming pools, great on-site cafes and the best part is they were just a few miles from Disney World.

After touring several free tours for the summer, we walked away with a 20 year loan for purchasing a new condo.

The truth of it is that nothing is free. It costs somehow. When I hear homeschoolers say that public school is free I think that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Get the Homeschool Facts!

Sure, it doesn’t cost dollars when you don’t have to buy curriculum, but then again you are giving up the right to have input into your child’s education.

Homeschooling is not free either. It can be free of the cost of curriculum as you can read in my article, Is Homeschooling Expensive, but it costs.

While I adamantly believe that homeschooling is the best choice for every family, it’s important to get the facts first before you homeschool.

Look at these 3 ways that homeschool costs.

ONE/ Homeschool costs your time.

Don’t underestimate the time that it will take to homeschool your children well. You’ll want to use online classes and enrichment activities available to you, but homeschooling is tutoring and tutoring is one-on-one. It’s personal.

There is no getting around it, there is no substitute for personal attention. Whatever changes and amenities like online classes are offered, your children still need your guidance and oversight.

Your time has a price.

Even if you use all free curriculum, it takes time to print material and it costs to print. Through the 17+ or so years I have been homeschooling I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours preparing my own lesson plans and unit studies.

I have soaked up every minute of doing it and I have no regrets. However, I have paid the price.

TWO/ Homeschool costs your energy.

Homeschool moms are true entrepreneurs and do-it-yourself folks in every sense of the word, which requires a tremendous amount of energy and fortitude day in, day out, and year after year.

Just ask any homeschool mom and a common topic is about being exhausted.

Some homeschool mom may even be polite and say they are tired, but who’re you kidding? We’re exhausted many days.

Homeschooling requires not only physical stamina to keep the kids moving forward on their lesson plans, but it calls for constant bridled thought when switching between many subjects for the day.

It’s stressful when you have to stay in a constant mode of teaching.

It’s like not having off a day from work. How many jobs do you know that require 7 days a week of 12 or more hours of constant supervising?

Of course, unlike many careers today, homeschooling has a huge reward or pay off but there are some days and years when that is hard to remember.

THREE/ Homeschool experience costs too.

Not only does homeschool costs time, but success for a first-time job like homeschooling doesn’t just happen. Success comes with experience and there is a price for it.

Whether you read numerous homeschool blogs, consult homeschool books or talk with a homeschool veteran, experience costs.

Fast forward 20 years, we love our condo in Florida and have had many family vacations there, but who was I kidding when I thought a tour was free?

Is Your Educational Choice the Cheapest but yet Costliest?

Even if you are overwhelmed at this point with the choice you made to homeschool, taking time to reaffirm your decision to homeschool will give you a fresh start.

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The Truth About Delaying a Start to Homeschooling

March 29, 2016 | 6 Comments
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From the depths of my heart, I feel that homeschooling is the ideal choice for any family. Reality is though, that there are just some people who are not willing or don’t have the circumstances to homeschool – yet. Kids being bullied, kids that have a compelling desire to move ahead academically and kids struggling with learning especially benefit from homeschooling.

Is Homeschooling The Last-Ditch Effort?

However, I have on more than one occasion discouraged parents from starting to homeschool because the truth about delaying a start to homeschooling is that there are 3 things that you want to consider before you dive into homeschooling.

Look at these 3 reasons why you should consider delaying a start to homeschool until you have time to address them.

1. If there is more of a discipline problem than an educational problem.

Several times as a homeschool leader, I have spoken to lawyers, locked horns with public school counselors who were not informed of current homeschooling laws and even testified in court one time. Most of the time the parents had behavioral problems with their kids.

Disciplining desperation led parents to homeschooling.

I had to think about testifying in court on behalf of two families that wanted their 15 year old children homeschooled because the daughter of one family was pregnant by the son of the other family.

Now, they wanted to homeschool. That is what I call the ugly side of homeschooling because families are not embracing homeschooling because they believe in the value of it or they are trying to head off some disciplinary problems before they happen.

I wouldn’t take parents in my homeschool workshop that are now wanting to homeschool because their child were in drugs or mischief. It may sound harsh, but there are two very different classes of parents who come to homeschool.

There is the class that believes in it because of all the advantages a child has (and I don’t mean those parents who thought they never would homeschool and are homeschooling) and then there are those that come to it because they don’t have a choice because they were not involved parents.

Parenting is a hard job and sometimes no matter what we do, teens will make their own choices.

It may be no fault of the parent, but then again the relationship with the child is what needs to be worked on now instead of the educational system.

In the end, I decided to testify for those two families that wanted to “homeschool” because they were both expecting their first grandchild from two 15 year old kids and because I knew they didn’t have many options.

My heart was absolutely broken for both families. It was not homeschooling like it should be, it was just being homebound. Look at my article, What is REAL Homeschooling? Homebound, Co-op or Public School at Home.

2. When one parent is completely against it.

I am not talking about a scenario when Dad may be skeptical and wants you to prove it to him the year you start, but where he is flat out against it.

Having a family and successful marriage is tough enough these days without adding to the stress of it. Marriage doesn’t afford you the luxury of avoiding controversial subjects.

If homeschooling is a controversial subject now, then it will always be until you both see eye to eye on it. If your husband is against homeschooling, don’t nag him, but graciously keep showing him all your well thought out research.

As long as he wants to continue talking about it, then keep on discussing it. But I have never encouraged a spouse, husband or wife, to go against the wishes of the other.

There are more things than academics to teach kids when you bring them home to school and one very important thing is teaching them how to work out things in a marriage. Agree first to homeschool and then homeschool in peace.

3. Lack of support system.

Sad to say, I have seen many parents bring their teens home to school only to leave them alone at home every day while they work. Teens are at various levels of maturity and while some can stay home and stay self-motivated each day, others still need some kind of support.

A support system doesn’t have to be a whole lot of people. It can be just one family member or a trusted close friend that will help you when you need it. By the teen years, most kids can work independently. Independently doesn’t mean always being alone or not having someone to supervise their work or monitor their success or lack of it.

Ideally, a family will meet with more success if the main homeschooling parent, which normally is mom in a lot of cases can dole out a bit of time each week to go over the child’s assignment.

Even if she has to work full time, spending a bit of time each week with her children, no matter how self-sufficient her children are is the best gift you can give to your children. Your kids still need parental guidance and supervision to make the shift to being responsible adults.

I have helped single moms and single dads learn how to begin to homeschool their children while they worked because they had a plan in place which is to get grandpa or grandma to help so their children were not alone all day.

One single mom that I helped even gave up some of her independence and made the decision to move back in with her parents (of course her parents were on board with it too). Her daughter would not be alone during the day and the grandparents and homeschooling mom worked out an arrangement where the homeschooling mom provided a good amount of income for all of them.

When the Going Gets Tough Do the Tough Really Need to Get Going?

Many years later after her daughter graduated, I heard from that mom as she came to me with tears of appreciation in her eyes.

I am no good when somebody else is crying, I have to join in too. I told her then that I was the one grateful for her friendship and that she taught me the power of a strong-willed parent and the value of a support system.

Homeschooling is not always about what we want, but what we are willing to give up so that we can homeschool. I learned so much from that single homeschooling mom.

Too, homeschooling is not about educating at all costs even at the cost of your marriage or sacrificing the relationship with your children.

Have you carefully weighed the cost of homeschooling?

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Is Homeschooling Expensive?

February 23, 2015 | 4 Comments
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Sooner normally than later most homeschool dads get around to asking is homeschooling expensive when you begin to homeschool.

Even the most seasoned homeschooler has to step back and get real about homeschooling when it comes to spending money.

How to homeschool well on a budget is not only an art but is in the reach of the most inexperienced budding budget shopper.

Though I would not encourage anybody to start homeschooling because it is cheaper, it certainly is a perk.

It doesn’t seem easy at first to be budget conscious because there are so many things that you need.

For example, after I spent a few months printing off tons of unit studies for free and failing at my first attempt in unit studies, I swung the other way and went overboard as I spent about $300.00 to $600.00 per child and that is in pre k, k and first grade. (ouch)

Learn from my mistake as I share where your hard earned dollars will be well spent and glean some tips as I share when your budget just does not exist because there is very little to budget.

Just remember, homeschooling costs something whether you pay by your time researching for free resources or whether you pay by with your dollars.

Some years I had more time than money and other years I had more money in my budget.

Key to homeschooling well on a budget is to determine first the true cost of a curriculum.

Homeschooling Costs – Compare Apples to Apples

Many times I hear homeschoolers shriek in terror when a curriculum may cost more than they may think it should.For example, a history program may cost $30.00.

However, the terms and conditions may allow the history program to be used for multiple children.

If you have 3 children like me, that is a well spent $10.00 per child per year.

If you have more children divide the number of your children by the cost of the curriculum to find the true cost per child per year.
Too, if a curriculum is to be used for multiple years even with one child, then dividing the cost by the number of years you will be using the curriculum is the true cost of the curriculum.
Begin budgeting well by accurately jotting down the price. It is hard to price shop when comparing two unlike curriculum or when you do not start with accurate pricing.

Another tip in making your dollars stretch is to understand that not all curriculum has the same priority level.

Start by spending money in your budget on the 3 R’s and working your way from there to subjects like history, geography, art, science, crafts and foreign languages.
The 3R’s are foundational and it’s important to take your time in finding curriculum in reading, writing and arithmetic that is a good fit for your child.
Spend your dollars on those vital subjects first. The highest priority is finding a curriculum for the subject that your child struggles with the most.

Most other subjects like history, science, geography, foreign language,art and etc. can be covered with a little creativity by you and using free online resources, the library and swapping resources with others in a homeschool group.

Thrifty Tips & Places to Find Homeschool Curriculum on a Budget

Free Textbooks

When I left public school, the principal told me about textbooks they throw away each year that have been discontinued.

I took the textbooks, flipped through them and tore out pages that related to the unit studies I planned and added those pages to my unit study binders.

Free Clip Art Without Printing a Thing

To find things for the kids to cut out and to decorate lapbooks or notebooks with make a stop by your local wall paper store.
My friend Cynthia put me on those wall paper sample books years ago and it’s such a thrifty find.

Wall paper stores will be throwing out samples of discontinued wall paper books and some of them have the best photos of history, science, landscape scenes and all other kinds of pictures to use for free clip art.

When you run short on dollars for printing color clip art, wall paper sample books are a genius find.
They are also a thrifty find when needing to keep young ones occupied as they spend hours flipping through the books and honing their fine motor skills.

Attend Homeschool Conventions for Free

Don’t fret if you don’t have the money to go to a local homeschool convention.

Most conventions, will in exchange for you working at the convention, give you free entrance into the convention.

Too, this applies to your teens. It is a great way to get into a homeschool convention without paying for anything other than your time and a few cents for gas if you live close by.

Attend Museums for Free

Museums and libraries both look for volunteers.

Attending a museum for free in exchange for volunteer hours is a creative way to attend a field trip for free. Some museums even have volunteer programs for teens.
In my area back home in Texas, our local library would get rid of books by doing dollar day bags. I made sure we showed up on those days to fill our library with some great buys in books

Other School Supplies

Did I tell you that when I worked in high school at a law office that I was real close to a coworker whose husband was an auctioneer? Judy, my coworker was fond of auctions, yard sales and thrift shops.

Every Friday, during lunch time she had a line up of some really neat places for us to visit and I did not realize the valuable tips I was learning then as she shared about how she purchased her items.

I attended my first auction in high school as Judy’s husband shared all the dos and don’ts of buying at an auction.

Their auctions were held outside on the grounds of the house that they were selling and I was able to learn how to bid. To this day, those thrifty tips remain with me and thrifty buying is still in my blood.

As I had my own children, those fond memories and useful tips came back to me. I purchased many school items at auctions and yard sales when I started to homeschool.

There are not many people looking for globes, educational board games for kids or small bags of various assortment of cool items that make great manipulatives. I purchased desks, whole set of readers, atlases and plenty of crafty materials for very few dollars.

It is easier than ever to budget well for homeschool because of the abundance of free online material made available by bloggers and other homeschoolers who are willing to share for free.

Take a look at the round up of free homeschool resources I have gathered below.

Free Homeschool Curriculum Guides

Ambleside OnlineAmbleside Online is a curriculum guide and booklist designed to follow the Charlotte Mason’s method of homeschooling. Grade K to 12.

Old Fashioned EducationGrades K-12. With links to older books.

Easy Peasy All In One HomeschoolNote: This is not an online free school but a free online resource with curriculum from preschool to high school. It is a great resource.

Ron Paul CurriculumFree for grades K-5.

Guest HollowFree resource for all subjects.

3 R’s Free Homeschool Guides

The Ultimate Guide to Spelling Practice

The Ultimate Guide to Free Kindle Classic Books

The Ultimate Guide to Mathematics Lessons for Homeschooling

The Ultimate Guide to Free Graded Reader eBooks

The Ultimate Guide to Free Copywork

Free Math Resources For All AgesPreschool to College.

Free Literature Resources for Great Classics!

Homeschool Science Free Guides

The Ultimate Guide to Studying Plants and Flowers

The Ultimate Guide to Studying Space

One Humongous List of Online Education Games

The Ultimate Guide to Studying Insects

The Ultimate Guide to Science for the Frightened Mom

Homeschooling with Netflix {Health Class}

Homeschool History Free Guides

America’s Heritage – An Adventure in Liberty. Three free levels to download; Elementary, Middle School and High School.

Free Unit Studies

Free Online History Resources For Homeschoolers!

Bringing Up Learners. A treasure trove of free history in a laid out and organized way.

Free 27 Week American History Study through Lapbooking In Chronological Order

50 Free History Unit Studies–History Lover’s Round Up

MIT OpenCourseware Free online library of course materials used to teach MIT undergraduate and graduate courses.

Expensive and a superior education are not necessarily synonymous. Costly does not always mean better and in the same vein sometimes you need to let loose of dollars to get something of better quality.

How to homeschool well on a budget just means sticking to the amount of money or to the expenses that have been allowed in your budget.

Making up a budget is the easy part. Living within a budget is the hard part.

Nowadays, it is easier than ever to make a budget work when homeschooling.

Cutting out non-essentials, being creative and resourceful are key to homeschooling well on a budget.

What about you? What are some of your best tips for keeping homeschooling affordable?

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Public School is NOT Free! (but neither is homeschool)

Get the Homeschool Facts!

Is Your Educational Choice the Cheapest but yet Costliest?

The Truth About Delaying a Start to Homeschooling