Homeschool Tips and Advice
Pass The Torch has her Homeschool Tips and Advice post up. Everyone should rush over there now to check it out. And because for whatever reason my post didn’t save and I was in too much of a rush to double check it, here’s my post for it off the top of my head.
Relax.
No, seriously. That’s it. Relax.
I noticed a trend when I’m reading a lot of homeschool blogs, especially of families new to homeschooling. They sometimes get worked up into a frazzle. 30 different classes, constant educational field trips, trying to fit in this and that. Some spend more moeny each month buying toys/games/resources than most spend each month on food. They feel that they not only need to have everything that the public schools have, they also have to have better. And their children are pushed to be fluent in Latin by 3, doing algebra by 7, and outperforming the local high school kids by 12. They worry that they have to have it all, be it all, and do it all every day or else they’ve failed.
Stop. Breathe. Step back.
There is no way any parent, or any child for that matter, is going to be able to excell in every single area. Yes there are a few extremely bright kids being homeschooled. And yes some families can afford, or choose to budget in, high tech gadgets and special software. But that does not mean that everyone can, or that every one needs to. It is OK not to be the idealized perfect homeschool family.
Heck, its even OK not to be the perfect family period. 
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June 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Thanks so much for joining us with this project!
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
hjdong from DJ over here. I was wondering when you would get a blog :-). I think that’s great advice. I’m going to jump over and check out some of the others and maybe join in myself. Thanks for sharing :-).
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Oops, looks like you’ve had it, but just linked it over there, silly me.
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out! Balance is definitely the key.
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Great thought! We all need to relax more!
~Leslie
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Thanks for the simple advice! I don’t really know any homeschooling families in real life, but you are right…we get an “ideal” in our heads from all we read. Thanks for reminding me that there is no perfect way to homeschool!
June 24th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Heck, if homeschool families relax just enough, they might find themselves simply having FUN together, learning all the time through living life. But then we’d call that unschooling.:)
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June 24th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Good advice, well done.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Excellent advice! Thanks for the reminder that the busy-ness we sometimes impose upon ourselves, can be our greatest enemy.
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