Is your homeschool causing more stress than joy?
You started homeschooling to create an enriching, personalized education for your children. But now you're:
- Feeling trapped by traditional school methods
- Second-guessing your choices and approaches
- Comparing your homeschool to others and feeling inadequate
- Struggling with children who resist your carefully crafted plans
- Spending money on curriculum that doesn't work for your family
- Lying awake at night wondering: "Am I doing this right?"
There's a better way.
Does this resonate?
I want to move toward child-led learning, but I have a hard time letting go and moving away from a schooled approach.
How do I get those schooled mindsets out of my homeschool?
I love this homeschool life but I've always got someone telling me what I'm doing isn't good enough.
If it's not a family member sharing their concerns, or a random stranger questioning why the kids aren't in school, it's ME wondering if I think I'm doing this homeschool thing good enough.
My instinct is to script the day.
Why can't my kids just want to get into rhythm with my intentions? I want the best education for them. But they are either lazy, disinterested, or unwilling to do it how I want to do it.
Imagine if you could:
- Feel completely confident in your homeschool choices
- Create a learning environment that works with—not against—each child's nature
- See genuine curiosity and joy in your children's learning
- Define your own rhythm and schedule that serves your family
- Know exactly which resources are worth investing in
- Recognize learning opportunities everywhere
- Finally let go of that nagging "not good enough" feeling
The Bridge to Your Homeschool Freedom
In this coaching course, you'll discover how to transform your homeschool from a source of stress to a journey of confident, purposeful, child-led learning.
What You'll Learn:
- Deschooling principles that free you from conventional education constraints
- How to assess your current homeschool with fresh eyes
- Techniques to reimagine your homeschool atmosphere
- Steps to define effective routines that serve your family
- The secret to wisely selecting curriculum and resources
- Strategies to address common challenges and dismantle limiting mindsets
- Methods to cultivate education that aligns with your family values and each child's uniqueness
My story...
I've been where you are. My homeschool once looked like a frantic private school in my living room:
- Multiple foreign languages
- Comprehensive academic subjects
- Endless extracurricular activities
- Extensive reading lists
- Art, music, writing, and more
But despite my GREAT expectations, neither my children nor I were happy.
I realized I wasn't looking into their eyes and listening to who they were. I was focused on my expectations, not their needs.
Through my own deschooling journey, I discovered:
- Freedom from traditional school constraints
- Confidence that transformed both me and my children
- Purpose that aligned with our family's values
Hey homeschool mama,
I know you want to create a thriving, child-led homeschool experience — one where you feel confident in your choices and your children are engaged, curious learners who genuinely enjoy their educational journey.
It's easy to get caught up in the latest learning trends, even if they are trends fueled by our homeschool community.
It's easy to create a school in our homes.
It's easy to make a homeschool reflect what we think will please other people's opinions on what an education should be for our kids.
You want your homeschool to be a place of freedom and purpose, for you and your kids.
Your goal in homeschooling wasn't to take the kids from "the system" so you could recreate your own version of a "system" in your home.
(ps I did do this, and many homeschool families do this, or at least we try, until we discover how NOT workable it is...)
To achieve this freedom, you need clarity on what an education truly is, permission to break free from conventional expectations, and practical strategies to reimagine your approach.
The problem is, those deeply ingrained school mindsets, external pressures from family or community, and your own perfectionism keep you trapped in patterns that aren't serving you or your children.
There's also that persistent voice wondering if you're doing "enough" — though if someone asked you to define "enough," you'd struggle to answer.
You feel stressed when your carefully crafted plans meet resistance, and you oscillate between enforcing compliance and giving up entirely, calling it an "unschool day" out of exhaustion rather than intention.
Why I think deschooling matters?
I think deschooling is a highly effective tool that helps us release doubt, uncertainty, and that not-good-enough feeling.
Say whaaa?
A tool that brings freedom and purpose and releases us from those feelings?
Now I am NOT saying we'll never feel those feelings: you're a human being and humans feel all the feelings at times.
Deschooling helps us (& our kids) zero in on the most important elements of learning: enabling tools to live our lives on purpose.
I've been learning about learning, learning about living with my kids, and learning about what an education is anyway.
And it isn't what I thought it was.
(You too?)
Turns out, I didn't need to have a teaching degree, I didn't need to lesson plan every homeschool day, and I didn't ever need a report card (well, one year I did, because the kids asked me for one!)
I've had to address boredom, motivation, schedules, curriculum choices, and that unhelpful, oxymoronic word: homeschool.
My homeschool once looked like a frantic private school in my living room:
- Multiple foreign languages
- Comprehensive academic subjects
- Endless extracurricular activities
- Extensive reading lists
- Art, music, writing, and more
But despite my GREAT expectations, neither my children nor I were happy.
Through my own deschooling journey, I discovered:
- Freedom from traditional school constraints
- Confidence that transformed both me and my children
- Purpose that aligned with our family's values
Would you like me to share what I've learned so you can be at ease in your homeschool with confidence and clarity too?
Here's how we'll get started:
- Explore deschooling principles and benefits to help you understand what's actually possible when you break free from traditional constraints.
- Reflectively assess your current homeschool to identify where schooled thinking is creating unnecessary friction.
- Reimagine your homeschool atmosphere and define an effective routine that works with your family's natural rhythm.
- Learn how to wisely purchase and use curriculum or resources that truly serve your children's needs.
- Address common challenges and dismantle unhelpful mindsets that keep you stuck in patterns that aren't working.
- Cultivate a purposeful, tailored education that aligns with your family values and each child's uniqueness.
Say Goodbye to Homeschool Stress
And in the meantime, discover more about child-led learning through my free resource: "The 5 Biggest Myths About Deschooling That Keep You Stuck in School-at-Home Mode" — a guide to help you begin shifting your mindset today.
YOU CAN REIMAGINE YOUR HOMESCHOOL LIFE!
— Teresa, your Deschooling Guide
ps You don't have to figure out this deschooling journey alone. Join Deschool your Homeschool 201 today and discover how much lighter and more joyful your homeschool can be when you master confident, child-led learning.
All my deschool transitions throughout my homeschool years have helped me do this:
- Freedom: Breaking free from the absurdities of traditional schooling, and even "expected" homeschool approaches, allowing me to facilitate a home education that served the kiddos in front of me. And they enjoyed it more! AND I ENJOYED it more.
- Confidence: Feeling confident in my homeschooling approach didn't just make me feel more at ease myself, it also made me more confident as an individual. And guess who else became more confident? Yeah, you guessed it, my kids.
- Purpose: Rediscovering the purpose behind my decision to homeschool and more cleanly implementing my reasons into my actual homeschool days and making sure our learning environment aligned more consistently with our family's values, which made it so much more purposeful.
It's Time to Transform Your Homeschool
This coaching course is your bridge between your current homeschool experience and the freedom you're seeking.
Say Goodbye to Homeschool Stress
"Does this resonate? I want to move toward child-led learning, but I have a hard time letting go of schooled approaches."
If you're nodding your head, you're in the right place. Together, we'll reimagine your homeschool life!
What will help transform your homeschool...
- Before you begin the next section...
- Your schedule is defined by your family's rhythm
- The homeschool stuff you buy
- There's not one right way to do this homeschool thing
- Your activities can be guided by the people that are within your homeschool.
- You saw learning opportunities everywhere.
- You saw learning opportunities beyond a homeschool philosophy or a curriculum.
- You could move at the flow of seasons in your family life.
- You could purchase and use curriculum or resources wisely.
- You were able to fuel and facilitate your child's natural interests.
- You could enable a learning process that was useful for the specific children in front of you, not an "ideal homeschool child".
- You were clear on the answer to "what an education is anyway".
- You could see the connection between curiosity, play, and a real education.
- You understood that all of life was a learning journey and we'll all be on it all the time.
- When we meet in coaching...
- Before you begin the next section...
- Some common challenges...
- What do homeschoolers want to deschool from?
- We have to be taught to teach our kids.
- A homeschool methodology
- The right curriculum
- Your activities can be guided by the people that are within your homeschool.
- You see learning opportunities everywhere, not just in school subjects.
- The way you do what you do changes over time.
- There is no average student.
- We assume kids should always be busy.
- We assume that kids must have a constant exposure to new things.
- We assume that kids need to identify in a particular grade.
- We assume kids need teachers to learn stuff.
- We assume learning comes best through lectures, textbooks, and testing.
- We assume kids need to learn certain things at certain times.
- We assume kids typically are at the same developmental level to receive knowledge bits at similar times.
- We assume there are only certain times of the day that kids can learn.
- We assume there are really only certain subjects that are considered learning.
- We assume that children don’t know how they should be educated.
- We assume a home education needs to be pre-planned and that can’t just happen as they go.
- We assume that our kids' peers are their most important attachments.
- Assume that someone else, a prescribed system, developed by the experts know better than parents, how to advocate for an education for our children.
- We assume that schools don't have educational gaps.
- We assume that there is a certain time in life to learn and there is a certain time in life to produce.
- We assume everyone needs a base knowledge.
- We assume there is only one way to get a base knowledge.
- We assume that base knowledge has to be learned in sequence.
- A base knowledge learned in sequence is remembered because we tested.
- We assume that because we tested, kids know. Even if we know that they don’t care.
- Assume that imparting anything to kids is a good done for them.
- When we meet in coaching...
Here's what others have to say...
“I needed to figure out how to meet my son’s needs in our homeschool (more child-led learning) and how to incorporate service back into my life. Coaching was helpful in ways I wasn’t expecting. I feel more confident in what homeschooling looks like (and doesn’t look like) within my home. It will always be evolving, but I feel more at peace. I am a better detective with my kids to see what they value and care about. I see how my relationship with myself impacts my relationship with my daughter in particular.
What a gift you have developed! You gave all you had during our time. I didn’t know what to expect, but you knocked it out of the park.”–Whitney, Homeschool Mom of 4
"Let’s face it. Homeschooling is hard. And amazing. There is elation and devastation – all in an average day. Teresa comes alongside to help you navigate your relationship with your homeschooling. Not to fix you, but to sufficiently assist you in detaching your identity from the activity so that the activity is elevated to new heights.
Why homeschool coaching? Teresa helps you poke through your assumptions and inner narrative to help you parent and educate gently – not only for your children but for yourself. She matches your pace to co-create sustaining practices for life and the long haul."
--Diane, Graduated Homeschool Mom of 3 & Coach
"Deschooling is mostly for me. I want to let go of my schoolish mindset and my fears of failing the homeschool review, so I can truly embrace a more child led and individualized learning path for my children."--Sigbrit, Homeschool Mom of 3
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I access the journaling notebook?
There is a downloadable PDF journaling workbook within the course. It may only be used for personal use, not recopied for other uses but your own.
After the course can I join group coaching sessions?
There's nothing like joining other mamas to establish a camaraderie and connection. (Or you can find a friend to join you in group coaching sessions.)
Can I purchase coaching sessions beyond this course?
Absolutely! If you want to continue our mentoring, I'd be delighted to continue in one-on-one sessions. Connect with me here to learn more here.
