Homeschooled as a kid. Homeschooling my kids.
This week’s lesson IV.14 · Teaching Days
Fill in a free six-page family emergency plan together, with contacts, meeting places, pet planning and a practice log for a parent-led homeschool activity.
A child may know where the crayons belong but not know which grown-up to contact if the usual pickup plan changes. A family planning session can make those everyday details easier to talk about.
New to homeschooling? Begin with How to Start Homeschooling: How to Homeschool, Step by Step I.02
The second-generation homeschool field guide: how to start, choosing curriculum without panic, real schedules, and kitchen-table teaching that works.
The First Reader
How to start homeschooling with clear eyes: first steps, deschooling, finding your state’s rules, and what the first year really costs.
The Second Reader
Choosing curriculum without the overwhelm: honest comparisons, picks by grade, secular and faith-based options covered factually.
The Third Reader
Homeschool schedules that survive real life: sample days, loop scheduling, morning baskets, and teaching around a toddler’s nap.
The Fourth Reader
The actual teaching: reading at the kitchen table, everyday math, science without a lab, and learning that happens on errands.
The Fifth Reader
The rest of it: socialization answered honestly, burnout, record-keeping, holidays, and what being homeschooled taught a second-gen mom.
Homeschooling with a toddler underfoot: nap-anchored lessons, table-time boxes, big-kid buddy blocks, and how to protect the quiet hour school runs on.
Homeschool socialization answered by someone raised in it: what homeschooled kids’ social lives actually look like, what to build, and what to ignore.
About the author
I’m Bethany — homeschooled K–12 in rural Wisconsin back when the jean-jumper jokes were aimed at my actual family, and now homeschooling my own three (8, 6, and a 2-year-old who still naps, which is why anything gets done). In between I went to a state university and spent years as a library programs coordinator, so I’ve seen this from the student’s chair, the teacher’s chair, and the story-time carpet. My husband teaches public school, which keeps this site permanently un-preachy. Curricula are tools, not tribes — we’ve already run this experiment once, and I remember what stuck.
