Welcome, homeschool mama!
Your deschool process
Let's assess you, your homeschool, and your perspective
What is an education anyway?
Your homeschool atmosphere
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Before you begin the next section...
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Your schedule is defined by your family's rhythm
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The homeschool stuff you buy
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There's not one right way to do this homeschool thing
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Your activities can be guided by the people that are within your homeschool.
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You saw learning opportunities everywhere.
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You saw learning opportunities beyond a homeschool philosophy or a curriculum.
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You could move at the flow of seasons in your family life.
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You could purchase and use curriculum or resources wisely.
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You were able to fuel and facilitate your child's natural interests.
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You could enable a learning process that was useful for the specific children in front of you, not an "ideal homeschool child".
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You were clear on the answer to "what an education is anyway".
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You could see the connection between curiosity, play, and a real education.
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You understood that all of life was a learning journey and we'll all be on it all the time.
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When we meet in coaching...
What's getting in your way? Dismantling unhelpful mindsets.
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Before you begin the next section...
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Some common challenges...
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What do homeschoolers want to deschool from?
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We have to be taught to teach our kids.
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A homeschool methodology
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The right curriculum
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Your activities can be guided by the people that are within your homeschool.
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You see learning opportunities everywhere, not just in school subjects.
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The way you do what you do changes over time.
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There is no average student.
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We assume kids should always be busy.
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We assume that kids must have a constant exposure to new things.
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We assume that kids need to identify in a particular grade.
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We assume kids need teachers to learn stuff.
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We assume learning comes best through lectures, textbooks, and testing.
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We assume kids need to learn certain things at certain times.
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We assume kids typically are at the same developmental level to receive knowledge bits at similar times.
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We assume there are only certain times of the day that kids can learn.
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We assume there are really only certain subjects that are considered learning.
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We assume that children don’t know how they should be educated.
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We assume a home education needs to be pre-planned and that can’t just happen as they go.
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We assume that our kids' peers are their most important attachments.
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Assume that someone else, a prescribed system, developed by the experts know better than parents, how to advocate for an education for our children.
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We assume that schools don't have educational gaps.
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We assume that there is a certain time in life to learn and there is a certain time in life to produce.
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We assume everyone needs a base knowledge.
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We assume there is only one way to get a base knowledge.
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We assume that base knowledge has to be learned in sequence.
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A base knowledge learned in sequence is remembered because we tested.
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We assume that because we tested, kids know. Even if we know that they don’t care.
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Assume that imparting anything to kids is a good done for them.
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When we meet in coaching...
The how-to of deschooling
A note to you, homeschool mama
