With every new homeschool year there will come alongside it new problems. Every year that I’ve been homeschooling, I start out with excitement and eagerness. But after the first week I grapple with moments that make me question my sanity for ever having considered the idea of homeschooling my husband’s spawn children. I thought it was something I would have gotten over by now. (the questioning
I’m pretty used to it now, the eerie change in demeanor whenever you answer the poor unsuspecting stranger who dared to ask the question “How many kids do you have?”. Everyone asks it so easily, so gracefully. Just a normal conversational gesture of greeting. But most freeze momentarily from the answer they receive -“five”. Like deer caught in the headlights, never expecting the weird outlandish
Encouragement is necessary when you are a new homeschooling mother. Typically when a parent considers homeschooling, the norm (even though its beginning to change) is for other people to question your decision. Once you make that very difficult decision, (not many people understand just how much you have considered it, prayed over it or researched it before making the decision), you are thrown into
