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- thoughts on “What Homeschooling & Working Outside The Home Looks Like: Interview with LM Preston”
- What Hours Do You Homeschool If You Are Working?
- Welcome, sudden COVID-19 homeschoolers
- Question 10: You also have a mentoring and coaching program. Can you tell us more about that?
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- Set your Home School Goals
- Tips for preparing your home for the incoming extreme cold weather
Homeschooling when both parents work outside the home adds even more obstacles. Therefore, we are determined to be wise in time management. I’m sharing it in the Linkedin Homeschooling and Working Parents group. Here’s the link if you want to check them out.
Some days I don’t make a single portion of food in the kitchen. I’ve gone from the mom who does it all to the mom who is rushing around wondering what she’s forgetting. However, I love getting to peek into someone else day to find out what homeschooling and “Life” look like. Yet our childcare situation is not solid. Our parents are getting older and may not be able to help indefinitely.
thoughts on “What Homeschooling & Working Outside The Home Looks Like: Interview with LM Preston”
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.
In addition to the curriculum that your kids can complete on their own, you might also consider homeschool classes and co-ops. Many co-ops do require that the parents of the kids enrolled to take an active role, but others do not. Alternating shifts also helps with school.
What Hours Do You Homeschool If You Are Working?
One parent can work with the student on a few subjects while he or she is home, leaving the remaining subjects for the other parent. Maybe Dad is the math and science guy while Mom excels at history and English. Splitting up the schoolwork allows each parent to contribute and to work to his or her strengths.
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.
Welcome, sudden COVID-19 homeschoolers
If you work outside the home and want to homeschool, consider afternoon lessons, evening lessons, or even on weekends. You can also look at a year round approach, spreading out your plans over twelve months instead of nine. If you have extended family or friends who are supportive of homeschooling, pick their brains for ideas.
You can build more and more learning independence. If you are working, you need them to understand that you will not be there at all times. Give them a plan of action if they get stuck, because they’re going to get stuck. They’re going to forget what you said. I’m excited that LM Preston created a great workshop to help you and your family balance working outside the home while homeschooling. You can find it in our Working Homeschool Mom Coffee Club.
Oh my gosh, Lisha, I was just thinking about you last week, and here you are! So many people think it's not possible. Thanks so much for everything you write. You have managed to answer all of the questions that have been plaguing me for months upon months. Please continue to share your amazing family and advice with us. The problem is do you have advice on joining a group that meets after hours.
This is a copy of the schedule that I keep visible all day. We are not slaves to it but it sure does help keep us all on track. Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project website (and book!) have been life-changing for me. I especially would encourage you to check out the Eight Splendid Truths of Happiness. But when I’m happy, I am more able to successfully manage all the things I try to do in a day.
I eat the Silver Hills Brand but there is also Ezekiel Bread etc. You need to judge what is best for your teenagers at this time. Are they okay to be left during the day? There are seasons in life; enjoy the time you can spend with them now. Thanks for all the encouraging ideas here. I’m a homeschooling mom considering going back to college.
Everyone needs to work together to make it all a success. This may mean more chores for the kids and more patience for the adults. However, homeschooling is totally worth it in every aspect.
The other big items on my list of key “household” influencers are Adam Baker’s Man vs. Debt and Sell Your Crap. I actually worked for Baker as his project manager (and writer!) when I originally wrote this post in 2012, but I’m not getting any money out of this. And, in fact, when I discovered MvD in 2010, I had no idea I’d someday live the dream of WORKING on it! At the time, I had a serious excess of stuff, and a matching serious excess of debt.
That you CAN manage both homeschooling and working outside the home (whether full- or part-time). If it is best for your children and your family, it can be done. With the school year approaching and homeschooling weighing very heavy on my heart the self doubt was setting in about being a self employed workaholic trying to home school.
It’s easy to burn the candle at both ends while working and homeschooling. You’ll need to make sure that you’re taking care of yourself by eating right and exercising. Don’t wait for someone else to tell you to schedule your hair appointments or yearly checkups.
I love that you and your husband have found a way to make it work. Homeschooling offers so much freedom and flexibility. And like you said, it’s so much more efficient than other ways of educating.
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