Homeschool Encouragement

We often play the comparison game and then second-guess ourselves. In this episode I discuss ways to help yourself feel confident about your decisions, so you’re not always looking around you at what everyone else is doing and feeling like you don’t measure up. Remember that you have so much freedom as you homeschool high […]

Sometimes I think we get caught up in expectations, or “shoulds”, or the ideal when we think about the involvement level of a homeschool dad. It’s something that isn’t talked about much, and I think it deserves a look. So in this episode I discuss what are reasonable and unreasonable expectations in regards to getting

Overview: It can be hard to decide about homeschooling high school extras such as volunteering or other activities. Consider these criteria. So many experts tell you that you have to do all. the. things. Dual enrollment. Honors classes. Volunteering. AP tests. Extra-curriculars. Guess what? You don’t have to do ANY of those things. We didn’t,

Overview: On those bad days it can feel like we are NOT successfully homeschooling high school. Here’s what to consider so you can hold your head high! Some days we feel GREAT! Other days, not so much, LOL. On those days — or weeks, or months, sometimes — how do you keep confident that this

As we get ready to start another homeschool year, we get caught up in all the minutiae of planning all the things — curriculum planning, lesson planning, schedule planning — and we can lose sight of the bigger picture. Yet the bigger picture is vitally important when it comes to our motivation from day-to-day and