There are many ways to homeschool successfully, but homeschooling without certain things could prove detrimental.
Take some sage advice from a mama who’s been exploring this homeschooling gig for a while now, and NEVER attempt to homeschool without these 8 things. Don’t say I didn’t warn you if you do! 😉
Kids
Okay, okay. This one is probably a given. You aren’t reading this if you aren’t a homeschool mama (or a homeschool mama wannabe – we love you too 😉 ).
Chances are you aren’t interested in homeschooling your neighbor’s cat. But seriously, you need students to do school at home. Most of the time those students will be your own, glorious, sticky, chocolate-faced, crumbly mess kiddoes the Lord has given to you.
Rest
Every suffered from a llama laugh attack?
Once upon a time, in the middle of a quiet co-oop far, far away there were students actively listening to the tutor. A mom was looking at next week’s assignment, fully expecting it to be about the Dali Lama.
Suddenly she found herself nose to nose with a cartoon of a live llama. Wearing a cape. Flying llama mama drama!
Enter hysterical, uncontrollable laugh-crying and a class full of students who won’t let you forget the fateful day that llama got the best of you.
Want to be made fun of the entirety of the homeschool year over a llama in a cape? Heed my woeful tale and choose to sleep instead of working yourself to death. Finishing all those dishes at midnight simply isn’t worth it.
Coffee
But first, coffee. Such truth.
It’s the fuel that keeps our homeschool up and running most days. You should never attempt to homeschool without the fuel that actually runs your homeschool.
I also wouldn’t recommend gazing at llamas donning capes in co-op without it either…
Bible
Want your kiddoes to be wise and understand all the things? Well, the knowledge and fear of God are the beginning of wisdom and understanding. How do we know that? The Bible of course! (from Proverbs 9:10).
Everything else you teach your children will last a matter of days and years. But the truth in that book is eternal. Don’t let your family miss it!
On a lighter note….
Clothes
On second thought, scratch that one. I have totally homeschooled my kiddoes sans clothing. Sometimes my crazy monkies darling children even learn better without buttons, and collars, and shirttails to distract them.
*Jammies are totally homeschool-friendly clothes btw 😉
Sometimes you learn better in yo comfy inappropriate-for-public fuzzy llama pants. Right?
Really Good Pencils
And I mean REALLY good. Unless you want to stop every 3.4 seconds to sharpen a pencil or pick one up off the floor – you need some bona fide, grade A, bulletproof pencils.
Oh, and they must be highly pretty or interesting to boot. If a pencil is not pretty or interesting, it may be used as a weapon against your student’s tablemates.
No one likes ugly pencils turned mutiny.
Or, if you are a really lucky homeschooling mom, on a really great homeschooling day, your homeschoolers will turn into large rodents and gnaw them into tiny fractals of pencil remains.
Do yourself a favor and buy your kiddoes the superb, sparkly pencils covered in images of tacos they’ll be sure to treasure.
Patience
“I could NEVER homeschool my children. I don’t have the patience for that.”
If I had a dime for every time some nincompoop stranger who wasn’t asked their opinion told me that, I could hire someone to infuse me with patience.
Actually, we should scratch that one too. I mean, are you, patient, all the time? Like when your kid spends three hours on one math assignment because they would rather eat dirt while standing on their head than do math today.
So patient.
Or the toddler smears a thin layer of peanut butter over 1/3 of all household surfaces because you were busy convincing another child that math is fun and good gravy-we-are-getting-through-one-page-of-math-today-so-help-me!
So patient.
A homeschool mom is sooo much more patient than a non-homescholing mom. Totally. Am I right?
Sense of Humor
This one is a must! Homeschooling without a sense of humor is a good way to stifle all fun. If you want to build a thriving, life-breathing, homeschooling experience for your family, learn to laugh. A lot.
Laugh at the peanut butter covered crevices. Laugh while you clean up the stickiness together.
And laugh when your kid comes to his senses and realizes that he was actually contemplating dirt-munching while head-standing to get out of math.
What can’t you homeschool without?
Tiffany
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