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One Thing I Hate About Homeschooling...

What would you say you dislike the most about homeschooling? Is there anything that just gets in your craw and drives you batty?

In all honesty, I probably have a few things that have driven me nearly bonkers over the years - but one thing in particular I pretty much could not stand. Grading school work every evening. 

It was always there, looming, waiting for me in a gigantic pile. Every. Single. Day. So many evenings spent grading, feeling as if I were missing out on family time or failing to take care of other tasks around the house. The homeschool day is not finished until I have graded every single subject for every single child and recorded it all in my planner. It's just no fun!

Like the laundry, it never goes away...

But here's the truth: one day it will go away. Children grow up, go to college, get jobs, get married, move away.

Our greatest homeschool burdens are disappearing before our very eyes...and there isn't really any joy in it!

For me, the mom who so disliked grading, the irony has been receiving a text from one of my children during their college years asking for a fresh set of eyes to read over one of their papers. You know what? I never minded that at all. Even when I am out running errands, I will squint to read their paper on my cell phone. I do it right away - putting it off doesn't cross my mind. I think that's because it is a reminder that these years of homeschooling fly by far too quickly. My griping about grading was just plain stupid.

Let the Lord speak to your heart about just how fleeting time truly is, and those aspects of homeschooling that you so dislike won't seem like such a big deal. He changed my heart about grading by simply showing me how time flies. I no longer despise grading. I may even enjoy it these days...at least a little bit.

Be blessed today, homeschool mom!

Day 382 done :)

Jan L. Burt
author of The Homeschooling Mothers Bible Study (available on Amazon)



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  1. Ashley WrightJune 3, 2018 at 11:48 PM

    Wonderful Blog! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Sharing individual thoughts always helps other. Its helps others to decrease their difficulties what they are facing, they get hopes, its can help in many more ways. So i always ask people to share their thought.

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