About the Reimagine your Homeschool course & group coaching program...
If I had babies all over again or if I could homeschool my babies all over again, I would do things a WHOLE lot differently.
What would I do differently, you ask? (You didn't ask, but I'll assume you did;)
1. I'd clarify my why by aligning my values and vision with my practical day-to-day activities and choices.
2. I'd explore strategies to turn my oft-repeated moments of frustration and overwhelm into opportunities for growth. (Instead of resisting them, or blaming others for them). I'd go inward and learn about my triggers, thoughts, and mindsets that worked against my growth.
3. I'd lean into child-led learning, despite my fascination with Charlotte Mason, Susan Wise Bauer, a multitude of coloured markers, and daytimers. (So that my home education efforts would benefit my kids AND so external opinions wouldn't sway my path or confidence).
4. I'd work with a coach (I really would! Coaching has been such a powerful shifter toward my happiness & peace & helped me release unhelpful mindsets even in my homeschool via deschooling).
5. I'd use all that I understand about how kids ARE and what MY needs are, and I'd revamp my routines, planners, & curriculum choices. And I'd time block my LIFE.
6. I'd hyperwarp everything I learned about myself, my internal boundaries, external boundaries, sense of self, and how I can nurture the nurturer (me) so I could nurture healthier family dynamics, understand & nurture my kids more completely, no matter how challenging I found each of their personalities.
7. I'd find someone to help me learn strategies to handle my big emotions, doubts, and overwhelm in a nurturing way (& therefore, learn to nurture my kids' big emotions too!)
8. I'd embrace this one VERY important mothering truth: there is not ONE right way to mother perfectly, and there won't be a time that I'll declare I did it perfectly either, so I'll accept that the goal of mothering isn't making a product out of my kiddos, but rather, to grow right alongside them (with their help;) and discover how imperfection can lead to my confident homeschool and life choices.
So, yeah, I'd do things a whole lot differently!
This is for you if...
- You're not sure you're doing this homeschool thing good enough.
- You know you’re not showing up as you’d like in your family: you’re angry, stressed, or overwhelmed more than you want.
- You don’t know how to relate to each of your kids.
- You’re feeling lonely and disconnected.
- You're struggling alone.
- You've been struggling for too long.
- You’ve wondered if it really is there year to send them back to school.
- You want to know how to let go of unrealistic expectations, but you don’t know where to start!
- You want to lean into your kiddo’s curiosities, but letting go of schooled ideas is so hard.
- You wonder if you were trained as a teacher, this homeschool thing would be easier.
- You’re not sure which homeschool method or curriculum is the right one for you and your kids.
- You know you should probably learn a few things about homeschooling, child development, and learning, but you don’t know where to start: there’s so much to research!
- You want someone to guide you in deciding on a homeschool routine, a morning routine, how to use a daytimer, create a portfolio, how to set up a homeschool space, and how to decide on curriculum/resources/extracurriculars.
- You want to know how to deal with toddlers, teenagers, more than one kiddo, just one kiddo.
- You don’t know how to motivate your kids or prevent them from getting bored.
- You want to bounce off your questions and concerns with someone who has been there done that.
- You want to hear from an authentic homeschool mom who has found a way to overcome those struggles.
- You feel like a fish out of water: homeschool is new to you and you need a guide outside of Facebook threads and social media!
- You want to know for sure that the way you're doing it is good enough.
- You want to feel connected in an authentic, supportive homeschool community.
- You know you'd be more confident if you had someone encouraging you.
- You want to Reimagine your Homeschool Life...
Do you identify with these homeschool mamas?
You can be confident…
You can be clear…
You can create a realistic plan...
I don’t know about you, but I’ve loved my homeschool life. (Most days).
It’s been a remarkable opportunity for my family (& me) to live toward a clearer vision, and more individualized education, and enable each of my kids toward a stronger sense of themselves.
But our homeschool story wasn’t a straight arrow to all that.
For plenty of homeschool years, I tried to make a private school at home (exhausting!)
- I didn’t always know how to address my big emotions, like frustration, overwhelm, stress, and doubt.
- I didn’t really know how what we were doing was specifically raising up the unique kids in our home.
- Also, I fumbled through far too much curriculum, planners, routines, and other people’s homeschool methods.
- And I didn’t know how to deal with the busy toddler, the cute, but active preschooler, or definitely what to do with so much kid conflict and their boredom too!
Though I really wanted the whole thing to be charmed (ya know my website is capturing the charmed life.com). I was looking for perfection, and I could never grasp it.
I’ve learned a whole lotta things. And I’d love to share them with you too!
- You can create a plan to address your big emotions (which helps you address and engage your kids big emotions too).
- You don’t have to homeschool in uncertainty and doubt; you can choose a path and stick to it, because it works for you and your kids, or you could shift gears if that works too.
- You can create a meaningful, individualized education for your homeschool kids that doesn’t exhaust you.
- And you can develop a vision for your homeschool family and not just put it on a piece of paper, but actually practice it day-by-day.
This homeschool thing really does work! And if you have the right tools, helpful mindsets & intentions, it can be an amazing life for you & them!
This is what we’re going to discuss and clarify in our 8 weeks together:
Element 1: Find Purpose Amid Challenges
Uncover the 'why' via your values & vision in your homeschool journey and how it fuels your resilience.
When we know why we're doing what we're doing, that we can wake up every morning and know it has a purpose, we can weather our challenges more easily.
Element 2: Embrace Frustration & Overwhelm
Learn effective strategies to turn challenging emotions & moments into opportunities for growth.
When we create a plan (& a practice) to address our moments of frustration or overwhelm, we don't dread the hard homeschool moments.
Element 3: Define Your Educational Intentions
Craft a clear intention for your homeschool, aligned with your beliefs and aspirations, and lean into child-led learning.
When we're clear on what we believe an education is anyway, what the purpose of our home education intentions is, we don't flounder when someone shares a new curriculum, routine, method, or criticizes our "way".
Element 4: Unpack Unhelpful Mindsets & Expectations
Release unhelpful mindsets to create space for a fulfilling, child-led education, meaningful memories, and a more purposeful life.
When we explore our unhelpful mindsets from our own experience of education and explore the unhelpful mindsets of our culture's approach to education, we can release ourselves from unrealistic expectations, focus on our family, and enable a more child-led education.
Element 5: Streamline Daily Homeschooling
Rejig your routines, planners, and curriculum choices for a more organized and joyful homeschool by learning to time block your life.
When we clarify our plans around morning routines, daily routines, homeschool planners, and curriculum choices, we don't need to be drawn into yet another idea about homeschooling: we can just do our thing.
Element 6: Achieve Long-Term Success
Tackle challenges specific to different family dynamics and ensure a sustainable homeschool journey.
When we create a plan to address the challenges of large-family homeschooling, small-family homeschooling, toddlers, teenagers, sibling rivalry, complaining, conflict, and boredom, we feel we can do this homeschool thing for the long term.
Element 7: Navigate Emotional Challenges
Equip yourself to handle emotions, doubts, and overwhelm in a nurturing way.
When we know how to address the challenges of this homeschool life, like dealing with our big emotions, our kids' big emotions, doubt, overwhelm, and anger, we will feel like we're mothering our kids beautifully.
Element 8: Embrace Imperfection & Confidence
Discover how imperfection can be the key to confident homeschool and life choices.
When you know that perfection is found in the imperfection, you'd be a whole lot more confident, unafraid at declaring your homeschool (& life) choices.
What’s in the course?
- Before you begin the next section...
- Let's Talk About Those Days... (4:45)
- Let's Talk About the Pressure Cooker Days
- Grappling with Doubt (13:21)
- Grappling with Overwhelm
- The Strategy that Helps All the Challenges
- Counselling 101 for the Homeschool Mama (9:11)
- Let's Talk About YOU & What You'll Need (17:43)
- What's Your Goal?
- Before we meet in coaching...
- Before we begin the next section...
- What is an Education Anyways? (1:41)
- Recognize that Your Home Is Not a School, So What Is It? (3:58)
- the Art & Science of an Education
- Deschooling, What it Means & How you Do It (8:08)
- How to Homeschool without Becoming a Teacher (8:32)
- Think of Yourself as a Learning Consultant & Mirror Not a Teacher (1:07)
- Homeschool Philosophies and Why you Don't Need to Figure Yours Out (7:16)
- Homeschool Mama's Reading List (6:44)
- When we meet in coaching...
- Before we begin the next section...
- Learn About Your Family Members (1:33)
- Understand Learning Opportunities (11:00)
- Engage The Basics: Reading, Writing, Rithmetic, & all the Other Stuff (1:34)
- Observe How they Learn (10:39)
- Acknowledge Child Development Stages &/or Learning Challenges (5:45)
- What Do You Want Your Child to Learn? (5:57)
- What Does Your Child Want to Learn? (5:09)
- Incorporate Play into Your Day (13:55)
- The Ins & Outs to Child-Led Learning (7:52)
- Before we meet in coaching...
- Before we begin the next section...
- Creating a Morning Routine (7:48)
- Creating a Homeschool Routine, Not a Schedule (16:48)
- Setting Up a Homeschool Room, or Homeschool Storage Space (5:53)
- Choosing a Homeschool Planner, or a Homeschool Record Book (5:33)
- Three Guidelines to Choosing Homeschool Curriculum & Resources (9:15)
- Five Suggestions on Buying Curriculum (9:45)
- Before we meet in coaching...
- Before you begin the next section...
- Engaging Toddlers (5:23)
- Too Many Kids & Too Many Ages in your Homeschool (4:51)
- Engaging Teenagers (11:37)
- Let's Chat about Motivating Kids (5:10)
- Let's Chat about Boredom (5:35)
- Let's Talk About the S Question: Socialization (8:44)
- Before we meet in coaching...
- Before you begin this new section...
- Understand Who You Are & How You Relate to your Homeschool Family (2:53)
- Understand Your Identity Outside Homeschool Parent (3:39)
- You Becoming You While Living Alongside Others (18:51)
- Decide How You Want to Show Up (1:50)
- Create a Goal in How You Show Up
- Before we meet in coaching...
Here from other homeschool mamas who have worked with Teresa...
Carla, Homeschool Mama of 2
“Teresa is the real deal! An experienced homeschool Mom who’s been there and can help others get out of overwhelm. Her ability to hold space for silence and difficult feelings makes her “no small talk” approach so effective. I trust her. Her retreat, resources and ask me anything meetings have served me tremendously. I’m so glad she’s in my corner!”
Diane, Veteran Homeschooler
“Let’s face it. Homeschooling is hard. And amazing. There is elation and devastation – all in the course of 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, in fact, 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.”
Holly, Homeschool Mama of 2
“Teresa has been of tremendous value towards my growth in homeschooling and self-care. She is encouraging and supportive of all that I long to pursue. I’m so grateful that I have her to walk alongside me in this journey.”
Michelle, Homeschooler of 1
“My house is a mess, I’m worried I’m not doing the best for my son, I’m pretty sure he has some sensory processing issues that I’m trying to navigate on my own. We have no homeschooling friends. And if one more person in my family says the S word!
It also doesn’t help that I feel my extended family “quizzes” my son anytime they see him. My husband is also very little help, so I think that’s pretty much my overwhelm! But I am grateful to have found you on Instagram! Thank you for all of the education, clarity and information you provide! I am brand new at this and pretty much on my own. I haven’t found a homeschool coop or group to join, unfortunately, so I am very grateful for you!”
So final thoughts...
This course is designed to help you homeschool the way YOU want to homeschool: with clarity and confidence.
- We both know there is no perfect homeschool.
- We both know that homeschooling has many challenges.
- And we both know you didn't sign up for the challenges; you signed up for the charms.
If you want to clarify your intentions, gain confidence in your choice, and clarify your intentions, values, and vision for your homeschool, join me!
Are you ready to get started?
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I access the journaling notebook?
There are downloadable PDFs at the end of many lessons. None of them may be recopied for other uses but your own.
Will I have access to the entire course all at once?
If you're joining me for group or one-on-one coaching, you'll receive each module the week before so you won't feel overwhelmed.
When will I get the coaching Zoom link?
The morning of your coaching session I'll make sure it's in your email.
What if I decide I want to join coaching even though I've signed up for the self-directed course?
Email me to ask how we might accommodate your introduction into group or one-on-one coaching.
How do I schedule my coaching sessions?
Upon purchasing the course, you'll receive a direct email to discuss appointment times. I am very familiar with accommodating time zones and personal needs.
Will I have permanent access to the self-directed course once the coaching program is complete?
You betcha! It's yours AND it's regularly updated too.
Can I purchase coaching sessions beyond this course?
Absolutely! If you want to continue coaching, I'd be delighted to continue. Connect with me here: [email protected]
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Read the book!
"Clearly, Teresa writes from years of valuable experience, and so generously shares them with new homeschool momma for their benefit. If you're trying to figure out how to get started taking the stress out of your homeschool day, the section where she shares her own story of overwhelm is pure gold! You'll find solid, experience-tested examples from her own life on creating an environment that is conducive to real education. Also, take note of the authors she recommends as her influencers. If you have to pick a section to start somewhere, there it is!"
~ Pat Fenner, BreakthroughHomeschooling.com