In our family, we always did something fun, unique, and special when it was time for homeschool to start back up after our summer break. I tried to make it different each year, and that did not always work out, but I did usually end up with a fun idea of how to celebrate the new school year. Even if some of my ideas ended up being recycled again and again due to my lack of creative new ideas! But I didn't ever do anything for myself when we got ready to start each homeschool year. Looking back, I wish I would have done something to make it a fun, unique, special time for me, too. Now my kids are all grown up and I've moved into the role of a grandmother (my grandma name is...wait for it... Blobs. ..), and there are no longer any opportunities for me to celebrate the start of a new homeschool year. But I am still pretty involved in the homeschool community. I have a TikTok called @homeschoolplanandpray and I'm super encouraged by the homeschool moms on that platform. (I
Let's get brutally honest for a moment. Homeschooling isn't always our kiddos favorite thing in the whole wide world. (And I know this is true for all homeschool families, not just my homeschool family...I mean, none of us LOVES every aspect of home education every second of every day, right?) Over the course of a couple of decades and some change of homeschooling my five children, these three things helped "turn that frown upside down" & ended up being the things that helped my kids to love homeschooling. (Hold the eye roll please, because my children are all adults now and they have actually told me that these things made homeschooling pretty great for them.) As always, I'll keep this post short & sweet. THING #1 that helped my kids love homeschooling: They could work ahead in any & every subject & once they finished that year's assigned work, they were DONE homeschooling for the year...as in FINISHED, no take backs, pinky swear, A