Charting a Path Back

Once we have a rough schedule of our weeks, we can start the work of homeschooling. The work of showing up consistently, of not breaking the chain.

But that’s not what consistency really is. Consistency isn’t performing perfectly or even pressuring everyone in your care to perform. Consistency is building a sustainable schedule and ways to return after you hit a bump in the road. It’s the return that creates consistency!

Because there are going to be bumps. A child will get sick, the baby will stop taking naps, your husband will face a hard season of unemployment. Bumps can also be really good things. Kids who are happily playing dress up all morning or the arrival of a new baby. These real conditions on the ground effect of ability to homeschool. And that’s as it should be. We are homeschooling–our home life is the center of all the learning that happens.

Consistent homeschoolers know that interruptions will happen. They have a way to return when life has pushed them off course. One path to return might be to only do Morning Time for a week, then add subjects back into the schedule a week at a time. The specifics will change depending on your family. Start smaller than you think you should and build from there.