The Helpful Homeschool Mom

I’m so excited about this idea I had! 🤗
I found a Fall Semester calendar online for free, uploaded it to the Office Depot website, and (using a 25% off coupon) was able to print this “blueprint” style (24” x 36”) for only $3!

I plan to write in our regularly scheduled co-op day, weekly soccer practices, chess club, etc; I will highlight weekends with the family in blue; and highlight holidays and vacations in another color.

I’ll put the link in the comments if you’d like the FREE printable….

NOTE TO MY READERS:
the copied text below is fairly anti-public school.
My page, however, isn’t anti-public school….
it is pro-homeschool. And that’s because public school can absolutely be the best fit for some kids/families. So just take their opinion with a grain of salt.
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“Homeschooling parents (and parents who want to homeschool):

Here are the 7 most important things to remember:

(If you do these 7 things and nothing else, your kid will get a great education)👇

1. Interest-based learning is far more valuable than a generic curriculum.

Children are not one-size-fits-all. Their learning shouldn't be either.

When your kids are disinterested, they'll forget information.

Their retention is far better if you build their learning around their existing interests.

2. The internet is the greatest educational resource ever known to man.

Every book ever written is at your fingertips.

The internet gives your kids access to the best thinkers and teachers in the world - often far better than they'd get in a local classroom.

3. Some of the best resources are available entirely for free.

YouTube is full of interviews and lectures.

Khan Academy has everything you need for an entire K-12 math education.

The internet (plus your local library for extras) is the only classroom your kids need.

4. Kids actually *want* to learn.

Public school makes learning so coercive that kids come to hate it.

But a child's natural state is to want to learn. They're hardwired for it.

All sorts of non-academic things can be learning: play, apprenticeships, entrepreneurial projects, etc.

5. School doesn't have to take more than 2 hours a day.

The public school day takes 7 hours because:

-the model is inefficient
-it serves as childcare

When self-paced, kids can knock out all their work in 2 hours a day, easy. (2hourlearning.com is a great tool for this.)

6. Don't replicate public school at home.

The whole point of leaving the system is to do something different.

Don't reject the things you didn't like, but default to keeping the rest.

Be willing to break the mold of public school altogether.

7. Your kids will get the most value from their passion projects.

If your kid wants to work on starting a business all day, let them.

They won't remember the worksheets as adults. They *will* shape their identity around the projects they completed.

And their interests likely map onto their long-term ambitions as adults (an entrepreneurial child will likely become an entrepreneurial adult, and the childhood practice will be a valuable foundation).”

It’s not for everyone….
But it can be a wonderful path!

This is the honest truth!!🤨🤨 . I am pro-homeschooling 😁😁😂 #homeschool #makeupstory #grwm #grwmmakeup

Something I heard often in the beginning of telling people that I was planning to homeschool my daughter was, “What if she becomes weird?”

I never worried about that fear.
And this is probably why.

Homeschooling? But what if your kids are weird? I certainly hope so! There are enough boring people in this world. Having an entire society that thinks and acts the same way sounds pretty dull to me. I am raising free thinkers, a future generation that embraces differences, and kids that know that being silly doesn’t have to stop when you grow up. 🙋 if you want the same for your kids, no matter how they do school!

“Gameschooling” is a great way to practice the basics!

Using Board Games to Teach Math to Young Children Playing board and card games can improve number sense among children as young as 3—and it’s fun!

Stay curious! 📖

Many years ago, I was teaching 4th grade for a private school. A mom emailed me the day before school started and told me her daughter had yet to write a paper or even do formal schoolwork. “She reads all day instead,” the mom told me, “mostly books about the British monarchs” (???🤣). I was honestly quite worried. That student turned out to be my best of the semester! It only took her a few weeks to pick up the skills she was lacking, kind of like someone who already knows how to run but now has to learn to do it in shoes instead of barefoot. Her vast imagination and her voracious appetite for learning were unmatched. It taught me a valuable lesson and I’ve thought about it often since. Education isn’t about downloading a set of facts that they will forget as soon as the test is over. It’s about developing a lifelong learner— someone who is excited, confident and also appropriately humble. It does involve giving them skills and building on them, yes of course, but it’s so much more than that. The whole point of it is a soul awakening, not who can recite more. If we take this view and our homeschooling reflects that, our children will never fall behind. #homeschoolingmom #homeschoolinglife #middleschoolhomeschool #homeschoolingideas #momswhosupportmoms

My belief is that children who have stable, connected, esteem-filled childhoods will actually be MORE able to withstand the everyday difficulties of adulthood….regardless of whether they school at home or elsewhere.

It’s not for everyone.
But if you want to spend the most time possible together….

Blows my mind 🤯💜 #homeschool #unschooling #unschoolingmom #momlife #homeschoolingmom #homeschoolcheck #babiesdontkeep