Nobody seems to know what is going on from week to week in schools. Sometimes kids are online, sometimes they are in classrooms. All this uncertainty has caused inefficiency, confusion, and burn-out on all sides.

Does school seem more like a series of make-work tasks instead of learning and engaging with much of anything. The teachers are doing their best, but we’ve all been drawn into these cycles of constant change with zero preparation. Meanwhile, everyone’s mental health has been thrown overboard in order to keep the ship afloat.

It has become clear that many aspects of institutionalized education are pretty arbitrary. We send our children to school to learn, not to jump through other people’s hoops.

Many parents have now had a first-hand look at a system that is failing – despite the valiant efforts of many teachers and other education workers. But at the end of the day, education should be about serving the child’s learning needs, not sustaining a system that is dysfunctional.

Kids are resilient, and most have made it through this storm alright so far, but this whole crazy situation has really made many parents want to explore other options for their child.

One of these options is homeschooling.

You don’t want what the schools are offering, but you’re also not sure if homeschooling could really work for your family. Are you even qualified to homeschool your kids?!

How do you know your kids are going to do well academically if they don’t go to school? Making this leap feels like blind trust. It is hard to imagine signing up for that much responsibility, let alone that many hours at home with your children! Not to mention that you’re no expert in teaching. The anxiety about your child ‘falling behind’ is real.

The truth is this: if you have been supporting your child with school-at-home, you’ve already been homeschooling…just in a really broken and stressful way. Trying to work from home while supporting your child’s online learning during lockdowns is nuts. I can assure you that this is not what most homeschooling is like.

For my family, homeschooling represents a viable and thriving alternative to school. A way to grow connection with our children at the same time as meeting their learning needs.

What if you could cut down on the number of hours your child spent doing formal learning tasks so that you have more time to enjoy each other without fights and power struggles? What if you knew how your child was doing without having to wait for a cryptic report card? What if you could select the teacher your child would have, knowing that they would ‘get them?’ What if learning looked a little bit more like enjoying life?

If you are questioning whether or not this is possible…it is! I didn’t believe it at first either.

Having spent 16 years of my life teaching in a classroom, I know the system inside and out…and I believed that what I was doing in the classroom was in the best interest of my students. After a lot of observation, I grew to understand the benefits and drawbacks. For me, the drawbacks began to outweigh the benefits, so when I began to consider my own children’s education we chose to homeschool them alongside my teaching career.

The past 11 years have been eye opening in ways I couldn’t have imagined, as I saw both forms of education play out in tandem. What I know now is that it is possible to create the life you want. It is possible to educate your children effectively at home. It is possible to change the way your days look and feel.

Just imagine having the clarity and conviction that you are making the right decision for your child’s education…

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Should I Homeschool: 5 Day Clarity Challenge!