I’m going to let you in on a little secret. There is really only one thing you need to do to have a successful first day of homeschooling.
RELAX
Chances are things won’t go exactly as you planned. Children will forget math facts and look puzzled when you ask them to find the verb in a sentence. The dog will eat the history CD and every pencil in the house will disappear.
It’s okay.
Really.
You have 180 days (give or take) to get it right.
And after those 180 days you have another year, and another.
Homeschooling is a marathon, not a sprint. The finish line is miles, and miles away. (Some days it seems light-years away)
Slow and steady finishes the race.
Thanks for the reminder!
we start on tuesday. i had planned on starting monday but my hubby is home and we are keeping a friends baby so i thought i should wait one more day. you are so true about it being a marathon. such a smart thing to remember
perfectly. exactly. totally. what i needed to read!
How true! Especially in the younger years, relax and HAVE FUN, too.
Thanks, I needed to here that
Greetings to you and your family! Your words of advice are PERFECT! This is the beginning of my 25th year of homeschooling and I could not agree more with your words of encouragement!! Oh, and there have been very few PERFECT days, if ever! However, they have been SO rewarding!
Oh God bless you! I’m new at this and I’m freaking out right about now!!!
I’m posting this on my computer, and my refrigerator, and my car, and….
Perfect advice! I’m a veteran homeschooler, with a son now in college and a high school senior, and it took me a long time to RELAX. It really WILL be o.k.!!
We did our first day ever of home school yesterday. My son went to a small Christian school last year for K5. Ironically, we were doing Handwriting Without Tears and it was the worst moment of the day – lots of tears! He didn’t like the paper. It’s not what he used last year. It doesn’t have a top line
I need this reminder this year! Thanks you stating it the way you did. Love it!