You wouldn’t shirk your duties as a mom, so do not shirk them as a homeschooler. Mothering is a full-time job and homeschooling is another part-time job on top of that. You don’t treat your homeschooling as a job You DO need a few simple habits in place that will help you go to bed on time and get ready quickly in the morning. You don’t need to wake hours before everyone else, make a breakfast from scratch, spend an hour reading hard books, or writing in a journal. Until you get some good habits in place to get your morning off to a good start, you will continue to struggle to get your homeschool off to a good start. The kids’ breakfast is congealing on the countertop while you shuffle around in your pajamas yelling at everyone to get their teeth brushed and get started on that math worksheet while you shower.Īs soon as you leave the room, World War III breaks out and you return for the fifteenth time to yell, threaten, and wonder why a 9-, 7-, and 5-year-old just can’t do five minutes of math without you. You can’t wake up at a decent time because you failed to go to bed the night before. It is entirely possible that your consistency issues start each morning long before you even consider homeschooling. Your reasons may not be the same as your neighbor’s, but I would bet one or more of these are causing you to struggle. There are specific reasons that homeschool consistency comes hard, but until you get to the bottom of those reasons, Self, and work past those challenges, then you will continue to strive, struggle, and fail. That’s because you are missing a vital element - the why. But the promises don’t last much past a month of Mondays and you are back to your old, inconsistent ways. Twenty mental lashes, hours of guilt and remorse, promises to yourself do better. I know you beat yourself up for your inability to maintain a routine. Anything more than that you can consider “excessive.” Hey, I promised you tough love. Go ahead - count up his paid time off - that’s your grace period for the school year (not counting your holidays and planned time off). As in not taking off more unplanned days in a year than your husband would be expected to take from his job. Homeschooling won’t work unless you do it consistently. ( exit Ghost of Homeschool Future) You can read or listen to this post So someone has to point out the elephant in the room before all the peanuts are gone and you are left with thirty-year-old shells living in your basement, lacking virtue, and the skills to even make change at the local fast food joint. Because I do love you and I know this homeschooling your kids thing is important to you. And yet, you struggle with homeschool consistency.
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