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4 Truths Every New Homeschooler Must Know {Free Printable}

July 13, 2016 by Sallie Borrink
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Congratulations on being a new homeschooler! It’s an exciting time for you and your child. In this series, I’m offering up a bunch of encouragement for homeschoolers and today is just for new homeschoolers. If you haven’t read about The Real Phases of the Homeschool Year, make sure you do that and download the free printable to keep for the year! If you look at that chart, this post will make even more sense!

Here are four things to remember as a new homeschooler. Know these truths in your heart and it will make your journey into homeschooling that much easier.

You Will Fail and Want To Quit Homeschooling

Let’s get this one out of the way right now. It’s true for every single person who homeschools. We all fail. We all want to quit. Even if we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are supposed to homeschool, we still will want to quit at times. (I’ll let you in on a secret. Every teacher wants to quit at least once a year. Working with little people is tough!)

So take the pressure off yourself from day one and know that no matter how excited you are today, you are going to come to a point this year when you want to quit. And that’s okay. It’s normal. Don’t let it shake the foundations of your world. Don’t let it undermine your confidence. It’s normal. For the vast majority of the homeschoolers, the feeling will pass.

Every Homeschool Year Will Be Different

After you make it through your first year and you think you’ve figured out this homeschool thing at least a little bit… I’m here to tell you that next year will be different. That trick you figured out this year for math? It probably won’t work next year. That writing curriculum everybody enjoyed? Next year it will be boring. That’s the reality of working with children who are constantly changing and growing.

Know right now that you are going to be making it up as you go every year. You aren’t teaching a third grader every year. You are teaching a kindergartener and then a first grader and then a second grader and then a third grader and so on. Children change a lot from year to year. During certain developmental phases they change a lot in just a few weeks! So know that every year will be different and that’s normal and totally okay. You are not a failure if the things that work great one year don’t carry over.

Homeschooling Will Get Easier

Homeschooling does get easier every year. One of the reasons is simply the fact that you get more comfortable in your own homeschool parent skin. Sometimes it takes a while to adjust to this new role. After you do it for a bit, it starts to feel more natural and second nature. Things you had to think about a lot will be a tiny blip on your radar.

It will also get easier because your family will find their own rhythm. This is especially true if you are pulling your kids out of a structured school environment. You’ve gone from someone else dictating pretty much your family’s every waking minute (school, homework, vacations, etc.) to making all those choices for yourself. It takes time to adjust. But once you adjust, it’s fantastic!

You will also learn to say “no” to outside homeschool pressures and know what works for your family and what won’t.

Homeschooling Is Not Radical, It Only Feels Like It

It’s easy to feel like homeschooling is one of the most radical choices you could ever make. It’s really not. Homeschooling has been a way of life for centuries. It’s only been the past 150 years that we’ve had schools like we have now. In the span of history, huge impersonal school systems are the radical approach, not homeschooling.

If you feel your choice is radical, then you’ll feel subtle pressure to defend it. You don’t want to always feel on the defensive about your educational choices. That’s a negative place to live and that’s not healthy. Homeschooling is a positive, normal choice. Remind yourself of that often.

Four Truths For New Homeschoolers

So there are four truths. Take them to heart. To help you remember, I’ve created a printable you can download at the end of this post and put in your homeschool planning binder.

Ore hang it on the wall. Put it in your Bible. Whatever you need to do to encourage yourself during your first exciting and exhausting year of homeschooling!

You will find this page in the free lovely printable pack that accompanies this series.

Each page in the pack coordinates with one of the posts in this series. Keep them in your planning notebook or somewhere else to remind you of the truth about the homeschooling journey.

This is part of my 10 Days of Homeschool Encouragement series.

 


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  1. Carlen

    July 13, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    I super duper agree with your truth about being “not radical”!  I had viewed it so differently before starting it and really I now would consider mainstream education to be so much more radical than what we’re all doing at home!  Thanks for sharing! – Carlen

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  2. Amanda Hopkins

    July 13, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    Yep, yep, yep and yep. You hit the nail on the head with this! I have experienced each and every one of these numerous times!! 🙂

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  3. Rebecca Reid

    July 13, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    Oh so true! Especially the second. Every year I homeschool I’m a first year teacher all over again!

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  4. Amy

    July 14, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Great tips for new homeschoolers! Every single one is right on. I have at least one time every year that I decide I should just send my kids on that big yellow bus, even when I know homeschooling is the best choice for our family.

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