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No one ever said that homeschooling would be easy, but it’s a journey worth taking. If you’re new to homeschooling, here are 5 Tips for Starting Your Homeschooling Journey for your family to remember.
#1. Keep Things Simple
If you’re going to homeschool, there’s no sense in making life more stressful. Try to keep things as simple as possible. The more chaos that’s added, then the harder it is to focus on school work.
#2. Rely on Each Other
Whether you need help from a spouse or an older sibling, it’s important to rely on each other for this homeschooling journey. You can’t do it all on your own, so make sure you ask for help when you can. And if you have to do it on your own, make sure you seek out a homeschooling support group.
#3. Mistakes are Okay
As a beginner homeschooling family, you will learn that mistakes are a natural part of this journey. There will be days you make many mistakes and days you don’t make any. The best thing you can do is move on and learn from the mistakes you have made. Mistakes just show us that we’re human and have a lot of room for improvement.
#4. Involve the Little Ones
If you’re spending time shoo-ing and yelling at the little ones it gets stressful for everyone. Try and take time to involve the little ones as much as possible. There are several things you can do to keep the little ones busy. Make little busy bags for them, have them help you out, or give them their own little homeschooling activity to do.
#5. Have Fun
You’re homeschooling for a reason, so make sure you have fun with it. You can’t be serious all of the time when it comes to schooling your children. Don’t forget to sit back and enjoy this homeschooling ride with the kids. Before long they’ll be graduating thanks to your homeschooling efforts. Insert fun whenever possible.
Do you have any tips for homeschoolers starting out?
I homeschooled our 5 kids (2 boys and 3 girls now ages 19-27 on their own) more years than not.
I like your article and tips and agree with them.. some other things that helped me when I was starting out, BEFORE I even started.. was I went to the local library and got as many how to homeschool and homeschool tips type of books out as I could which helped me learn there are quite a few different styles and ways to do it and it helped me think about the pros and cons to each and that what might be an ideal way for one of my children , may not be as ideal for another…. also I learned about the learning styles children/people have to help me use those strengths and work on their weaker areas.
I also believe in children playing as much as possible and having fun while they can and that they retain information more through hands on activities, projects, field trips and play so I used the library a lot for those kinds of ideas to incorporate what concepts i wanted to teach them too and sometimes they were having so much fun they didn’t even realize it was educational and I really wanted them to LOVE learning and that helped me achieve that with them.
Another thing that was helpful was having an older child ‘teach” or write a story with pictures for a younger child to “teach” them what they learned that way it reinforced what the older child just learned in them and also started teaching the younger child too.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my article. What an amazing accomplishment homeschooling all of your kids! I want to homeschool, but for now we’re sending our youngest to Kindergarten. My long term goal is to homeschool all of our children, but I think it will be easier when they have that base foundation, if that makes any sense. Great tips!
Thank you for sharing this informative post for parents. I think homeschooling is a better option than public schools in many cases.
Thank you so much, Shannon!
I think you are very brave to homeschool your children. Our daughter was an only child and I thought she needed the contact with other children or I might have considered homeschooling.
Irene,
There are usually a lot of different groups, co-ops and classes with other homeschoolers out there. I know it’s easier in bigger towns sometimes but there are a lot of great things out there for kids to get together & socialize 🙂
Yeah, there are def many things you can get involved in socially wise when it comes to homeschooling = )
These ideas are great like involving the kids, this will only make the kids want to do the work more. Keeping it simple is great for the whole family it’s not so stressful.
homeschooling is the way to go. it’s not bad to homeschool.
i like this idea of homeshooling. it makes kids safer then in schools.
These are great tips for new homeschool families.
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