"How To" - Maintain the Joy
The stages of your relationship with homeschooling is a bit like marriage. After you overcome being overwhelmed, you enjoy the "honeymoon" period. Years fly by and you find yourself settling in to routine. Perhaps you may even revisit questions of insecurity. How then do you maintain the joy of homeschooling? Well, actually, this isn't going to develop into a "How To" mini workshop. Rather, since we are settling into this school year and with winter on the way, I wanted to revisit my joys and share them with those reading my posts. I posted it here, rather than a ramble, for those who have been following this thread. These are joys I get from homeschooling my family. Each family will have different experiences along their journey. Thus, I love homeschooling because:
I could go on and on. But, for the sake of my readers, I shall stop. The point is... review your joys frequently, because difficulties will arise, to energize your learning environment and keep the zeal for teaching the most important students in your life, your own children. |