Learning How To Homeschool Your Child

If you are wondering how to homeschool your child, you, my friend, are in the right place! We are going to go over it all so that you will feel prepared and confident as you start your homeschool journey!

Homeschooling Your Child

Every year thousands of families opt to buck the system and take control over the educational path of their children by learning how to homeschool. It’s a big decision, and we all come to it from a different way but the end goal is the same: to teach our children and prepare them for life.

Homeschooling your child is a huge undertaking if you think about it… which is why we make sure we reach out for support, keep ourselves connected to other homeschoolers, and find our own rhythm as homeschool families.

How To Homeschool Your Child Yourself

Many moms who dream of homeschooling find themselves wondering if they can successfully homeschool their children. They start thinking about their own shortcomings and wonder if they can actually do it – teach their children enough to make it in the world.

Luckily, as home education grows, so do the homeschool resources available to help! Everything from free printables to help you plan your homeschool to tutorial videos & guide books are all readily available to help you homeschool your child yourself.

All of these resources, including curricula and resources for every budget and learning style, mean you are in good company and have the support you need to teach your child at home.

There are even dedicated resources to help you learn how to homeschool ADHD, autistic children, children who struggle with sensory processing issues, and a plethora of other learning challenges. Many of these are written by homeschool moms just like you who are doing what they know is best for their child and sitting in the trenches of daily homeschooling.

Learning How To Homeschool Your Kids

So, you’ve made the decision to homeschool. Whatever your reason, whatever your situation, you have decided that the best decision for your family is to begin homeschooling.

And now…?

Now it’s time to start learning how to homeschool your kids, to become a student yourself as much as a teacher, so you can guide your children.

I can still remember making that decision years ago. I can still remember thinking that we were going to do it – we were going to take the responsibility on our shoulders and become a homeschool family.

We had two children enrolled in the local public school but I felt this yearning to make a change.

It started as an idea, a fleeting one at that. One that seemed so large, like an impossible mountain to climb.

Yet, that fleeting feeling never left and slowly I began to research how to start homeschooling. Began reading about a movement that is so much more than an educational decision for millions of families in the US and around the world.

And even though I thought I knew what I was doing… it didn’t take long to learn that knowing how to homeschool is a lifelong adventure.

Fumbling Through The Start

If you are looking for someone to tell you all about their own glorious beginnings… well, this isn’t it.

In fact, it’s the complete opposite.

Our adventure in homeschooling began with me making each and every mistake a new homeschooler could make.

I failed to deschool, even though we transitioned mid-year.

I failed to think about how my children learn, thinking I knew how to best approach homeschooling.

And I completely failed to embrace any sort of homeschool freedom, instead, making our initial homeschool experience nothing more than school at home.

So please know that when I write about how to start your homeschool journey, I am telling you to do not just the opposite of what I did, but to include the essential homeschool elements that I know are key to homeschooling successfully.

But first…

Before I can tell you how to homeschool your child, I need to address the elephant in the room.

I need to tell you what homeschooling is not before I can even begin to tell you what homeschooling is.

Homeschooling is not days sitting at desks completing worksheets and writing Latin.

Homeschooling is not days that are rigid and strict filled with bells and block schedules.

Homeschooling is not days packed with lessons and lectures and learning, and evenings filled with homework.

Unless, of course, you want it to be.

Because homeschooling is a unique approach to education that encompasses a wide variety of methods, techniques, and approaches while keeping in mind unique learning styles, personalities, abilities, and goals.

It’s a customized education that can be exactly what your child needs when your child needs it.

How To Homeschool Your Child

And here we are… the keys to the castle. The one thing you have searched the internet for, combed forums to learn… the answer to the question that is burning inside because while you are dedicated you are also terrified.

Just start.

Two words that are gloriously and unceremoniously anticlimactic.

Just begin.

Start with a book or a field trip.

Research state laws.

Add in a documentary or a walk through the woods.

Learn about learning styles.

Sprinkle in some baking.

Solidify your commitment to learning how to homeschool.

Stay up late, watch the sky, and count the stars.

Go grocery shopping.

Read another book… and then watch the movie version.

And know that you are at the start of a glorious adventure that you are writing. One that you and your child will be on together.

Some days will be easier than others.

Some seasons will make you question your decision because yes, homeschooling is amazing and rewarding, but homeschooling can also be hard.

Yet each day will require you to renew your commitment, find your determination, and be firm as you learn how to homeschool each and every day right alongside your children.

Additional Homeschool Resources

Hey there, friend!

I am assuming you found this post while deep in a Google search looking for the proverbial wizard, the one that would answer all of your questions and give you a step-by-step roadmap that tells you exactly what you need to know.

And I am also assuming that there is a fair chance you think I gipped you a little bit.

Fear not, my friend, as I wrote this post with you in mind and wanted to give you what you needed first – assurance – before I gave you what you wanted – details. 😉

Because, more than anything, I want to help you succeed in this journey as you begin educating your children at home and I know that more than anything, you need emotional support for this adventure.

Homeschooling, like parenting, is both rewarding and challenging.

It’s filled with glorious highs as you watch your children soar and succeed.

Likewise, it’s filled with painful and heart-crushing lows as you wrestle with doubt, fear, insecurity, and learning challenges.

Yet I know that you can successfully homeschool because here you are doing the work and gathering the research.

You are putting in the effort and doing the work because in your gut you know that even if it’s challenging, it will be worth it.

However, if you are looking for more, start here with my free beginner’s guide to homeschooling which will walk you through how to homeschool, step by step.