The ultimate guide to homeschooling for working moms
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You can homeschool your kids and still have a job. Instead of thinking you can’t do it, think of all the reasons you CAN. I would create a plan with your spouse and/or family to help ensure your kids get the best experience possible.
How to Homeschool when you Work Outside the Home
Cheers for joining in with the Parenting Pin it Party, we really appreciate it. I’m focusing more on self care these days – I’m going to the chiropractor, signed up for a new yoga class and will be running again soon. I’d love for my kids to experience everything, but it’s just not possible. We sit down together and talk about what works for everyone.
Systems and routines don’t have to be complicated, but should be based on your family’s unique situation. Routines like meal plans, homeschool planning, chore charts, all the pieces that help your family run a little bit smoother. Here are seven helpful tips for helping you care for your homeschooled children while working outside the home. The reality is that working and homeschool is not easy, but it is completely possible. Just in the past 18 to 24 months, we’ve seen more parents trying to work with their kids at schooling at home.
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I have use mixed curriculum and many times I don’t use one and just do things with my daughter, very inspirational words. I am finally embracing the WAHM title. Of course I never stopped being a homeschool mom. When I originally wrote this post, I had less than a year until I tested for my black belt in tae kwon do. I had enjoyed several good books that month, helped my best friend move, had a scrapbooking night and thrown a summer party. Sometimes, the best way to gain flexibility in the long run is to invest a lot of time at the start to make things go smoother day to day.
Thank you so much for sharing this positive post about the topic because #homeschooling our kids is quite important to us. However, we also have to pay the bills too. It's taken us a while to adjust to our new 'normal' - normal only for now, for this season. But we both know that to provide for our family right now, God has called both of us to work outside the home - and He has also called for us to educate our girls at home. He gives the grace and the energy to do both for now.
Set your Home School Goals
The rest is yet to come…lol Thank for reading. The kids are hungry when we get home and I start supper. Leftover rice and hamburger make for a quick and easy supper. Later exhausted we meet back at the car. We talk about supper plans and what is the plan for the evening on the drive home.
Originally appeared in The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, the trade publication for homeschool moms. My husband and I currently work opposite shifts. We make sure to spend time together each night after I come home from work, even if I am tired.
Welcome, sudden COVID-19 homeschoolers
I have to communicate with my husband about school days, my work schedule, doctor’s appointments and field trip plans. Don’t get stuck in the rut of thinking that homeschooling has to look like a traditional school setting. Learning can happen at any time, not just Mondays through Fridays, 9AM until 3PM.
We’re doing better on the “stuff” front, thanks to selling our crap, and paid off more than $30,000 in consumer debt, which I’m incredibly proud of. Like with your physical house, getting your financial house in order is easier when you simplify. Paying off debt has freed up money, but more importantly, it’s freed up options. Karen Robuck is a homeschooling mother of two. She holds degrees from Blue Mountain College, a Christian liberal arts college in northeast Mississippi, and from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Another thing that some people pursue is alternate-shift work. That’s actually what our family has done most often – one worked nights, the other days, so someone was home at least most of the time with less need for any kind of babysitter. When your child draws you away from work, move physically from the computer. (You may close the laptop.) Give undivided attention.
I have yet to find one, or even one with High School students. It is just what I needed to read this week. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful resources and encouragement. Looking forward to looking through more of your posts. Our biggest areas of work are our laundry, our dishes and our floors. So we’ve set up good systems for some of them – like keeping laundry baskets in each bedroom and washing when any one gets full.
I love connecting with readers and seeing what they’ve been up to. I know it’s 3 years later but are you still working and one more question. We have to laugh about the socialization – in a big family like ours, it’s never an issue. We have a rule of one extracurricular activity at a time, to minimize cost, stress and travel time. My kids are extroverts, and there’s no shortage of fun things to do in our town. We share a Google calendar so that we can get a glance at what everyone has on tap.
Even if I were a full-time, stay-at-home mom, we would not be doing a lot of extra activities. But, working afternoons makes even the few activities we are interested in difficult. If one of the children is interested in something, we will find a way to make it work. I may have to ask an extended family member to take them, rearrange my work hours occasionally, or use a personal day. It’s hard, but the rewards are so very worth it. I’d take a look at some of the tips in this article, and if you have more specific questions, I’ll be happy to offer my two cents worth.
I have enjoyed all your advice on every subject so far. I home schooled my son for 4 years but now that he is in High School he want’s to stay in school just to meet others. That’s a whole long story that I won’t go into. He has been in school for a year and we are thinking of home schooling again. Our boys have been home with me since the beginning, and I think the key to working and directing their education is the flexibility you mentioned. There are times when they need or want more, like your daughters Lego camp and you can adjust.
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