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Managing Life as a Home Educating Parent
Life as a parent changes when we opt to home educate our kids. It is a full-time job, much like parenting was when our kids were very young, before we enrolled them in child-care or preschool. We are on hand 24/7 facilitating learning opportunities and activities, guiding them, helping them grow and develop.
If we've withdrawn our kids from school we may have dropped our working hours or temporarily parked our career until the kids are old enough for us to direct our energy back to that. Life can change drastically and you may experience a considerable period of adjustment.
Overwhelm, burnout, managing competing interests, juggling the learning needs and interests of different age groups, maintaining confidence, looking after ourselves are all topics that come up in online homeschooling groups, and I've collated a collection of articles over the years focusing on these topics.
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- 5 Top Ideas that Have Shaped our Homeschool, Lusi Austin
- 10 Tips to Take into Next Year
- 33 Tips to Make Home Educating Hum with Happiness
- Activities and Ideas for When Boredom Strikes
- A Different Kind of Self-Discipline
- A Few Strategies for Coping as Home Educators
- A Few Things to Occupy the Kids during the Holidays
- A Heartbreaking Story about Unsupervised Internet Use
- #AlwaysLearning Needs Based Education April Jermey
- An Organised Homeschool
- A Positive Plug for Planning
- A Question About Age Appropriateness and Type of Chores for Children
- A Tip for Problem Solving and Setting Goals
- Are your kids after using screen technology?
- Avoid the Smorgasbord Approach to Education!
- Bias: Interpreting my children's behaviour in the light of my expectations and past experiences
- Beat the home ed blue-bugs!
- Being "On Call"...
- Bore and Peace
- Born Lazy? and More on Laziness
- Build a Positive Attitude Using Your Heroes
- Busting those Boredom Blues!
- Busy Homeschools can be Clean and Tidy Homeschools Too!
- "Can I go to school?" When homeschool children ask to go to school
- Changing Habits to Promote Consistency as a Home Educating Parent
- Changing Habits to Promote Consistency as a Home Educating Parent
- Chores and the idea of service
- Chores: An Unschooling Perspective
- Combatting the "I will never be as good as..." Failure Syndrome
- Contrived Learning Activities
- Consistency: an Important Aspects of our Home Learning
- Cooking with Children Helps to Boost Learning Performance
- Coping with those Rotten Awful Bad Homeschooling Days When Everything Goes Wrong
- Combatting the "I will never be as good as..." Failure Syndrome
- Coping with Feelings of Parental Inadequacy
- Create a Stress Free Learning Environment
- Creative Solutions and Goal Setting
- Cycles in Homeschooling Life, Grace Chapman
- Daft Ideas for Dreary Days
- Deschooling: Question Your Motivations
- Distractions and Disruptions Can Sometimes Help with Motivation Issues
- Do You Use Mind Mapping?
- Does Laziness Exist? Saani Bennetts
- Does Learning Have to be Fun?
- Do you really need that awesome educational resource in your homeschool?
- Don't Be Afraid to be Wrong
- Don't waste time worrying! Have a go!
- Encouraging Autonomous Activity and Learning
- Eventual Recognition Home Education is a Viable Choice for our Family
- Explain Your Motives - it helps!
- Expectations, Stress, Trust and Learning
- Everyone can Homeschool: Intelligence and Educational Knowledge are not Prerequisites for Starting to Teach Your Children at Home
- Focus on what you want and why you want it
- Frustration at Child's Obsession with PC Games
- Fulfilling One's Potential? Why?
- Get Rid of those Cranky or Bored Kids!
- Get Your Priorities Straight
- Growing a Growth Mindset
- Help! I'm a homeschool failure!
- Help! Kids Leaving a Mess!
- Help! My kids are fighting...
- Highly Sensitive and Anxious: managing stress and home educating
- Home Educating While Living with Depression
- Homeschoolers are only human
- Homeschoolers... Families Living Extraordinary Lives!
- Homeschooling Blues
- Homeschooling Through the 'Bad' Days - When Our Children Are Fighting
- Home Ed Bag for the Car
- Homeschooling Through Difficult Times, Kath Gardner
- How Can I Turn My Child's Brain Back On?
- How do I motivate my 13 year old to learn?
- How Do You View Your World? Grace Chapman
- How Do You Discover and Live Your Passion?
- How doing my best and working for better grades damaged me
- How to Do What You Have to Do Even When You Don't Feel Like Doing It
- How to Develop and Encourage Creative Thinking Skills
- How downshifting benefits your health and wellbeing, Sally Lever
- How Thinking Positively Can Enhance Homeschooling
- How to avoid unrealistic expectations and feeling overwhelmed as homeschoolers
- How To Avoid Becoming Overwhelmed
- How to Keep a Well Being Journal
- How I Got Rid of the Mess in my Life
- How Our Daily Routine List Helps Us to Stay on Track
- How to Teach Children of Different Ages and Cope with Toddlers in the Homeschool
- How Much Instruction Each Day?
- "I can't do it": Resistance to Learning
- Is It Time for a Teacher Make-Over?
- It is okay to relax and play, learning happens doing that too!
- Ideas for Stimulating Motivation
- I'm Bored! How can I spice things up?
- It's Okay to Not Push Kids to Learn
- It is okay to relax and play, learning happens doing that too!
- Kid Free Time - Is it Possible?
- Joyful Disruptions
- Keep going..., June 2025
- Learning Invocations
- Learn More: Make Mistakes! by Ilka Oster
- Learning the Tough Lessons in Life
- Letting Go of my Fantasy Homeschooling-Self Lusi Austin
- Life's Balance Beam - How to Keep From Falling Off
- Living With Depression
- Letting Go of my Fantasy Homeschooling-Self Lusi Austin
- Letting Go of Possessions - Part of the Decluttering Process
- Living on the Edge of Mainstream
- Living Simply - a permaculture influenced design charter
- Looking After Mum
- Looking for Balance in our Homeschool Lives
- Make Learning a Challenge, Not Just Fun
- Make A New Year's Wish Box
- Maintaining Confidence as a Home Educating Parent
- Maximising the Potential of the Brain: Use It or Lose it!
- Me Time and Parenting Toddlers While Home Educating Older Children
- Minimise Distractions
- Motivate Your Homeschooling Kids This Winter With These Chill-Blasting Ideas!
- Motivation 101: Meeting Basic Needs
- Motivation for Preparing Meals!
- Mum, I'm Bored! Kristy A Bennett
- Musings on Self-Discipline
- Musings on Contentment, Complacency and Continual Striving
- Multi-level Teaching and Unit Studies
- My Kids Aren't Motivated to Learn!
- Nelson Mandela Wasn't the Sportiest Kid at School (and Why Our Kids Should Know It), by Lucy Singer
- Not Enough Time!
- One Step at a Time
- Organised and simplified: minimalist home education
- Organise Your Life with the Help of the FlyLady!
- Organising Your Natural Learning Day
- Our Routines Change With Our Growth Grace Chapman
- Put Some Happiness in Your Pocket While You Homeschool!
- Problems with the "Learning Must Be Fun Approach" to Education
- Procrastination ~ Fear of the Unknown, Grace Chapman
- Profile of a Homeschooling Parent: How Many Jobs Do You Have?
- Procrastination ~ Fear of the Unknown
- Reassurance and Trust: unschooling tools for confidence building
- Screen Time, Freya Dawson
- Secondhand Ambition
- Screen Time, Freya Dawson
- Sharing the Chores
- Should I Continue Homeschooling? A Disastrous Year
- Struggling with Feelings of Incompetence, Michelle Hasting
- Taking the Worry out of Making Decisions
- The Educational Value of Chores
- Time for Me
- Timing Can Help with Motivation
- Tips for Beating the Homeschooling Boredom Blues by Examing the Nature of Boredom
- Tips on How to Cope with Homeschool Stress
- Tired of whining kids? There's hope...
- Unrealistic expectations and feeling overwhelmed as homeschoolers
- Use It or Lose It!
- Using Learning Invocations
- What does Home Education look like? Tamara Kidd
- What is Your Homeschooling Life Like?
- What to do when the kids whine and fight and won't do their homeschool work?
- When Homeschooling is Working Well, Resist the Drive to Change It!
- Worried about children playing computer/video games all day...
- What to do when it all gets too hard and we want to give up?
- Why it helps to have a home ed learning plan
- Will our home educated kids turn out okay?
- You Can't Fail as a Homeschooling Parent
- Your Exceptional Learning Abilities
Home Educating Dads / Fathers
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