Navigating a Challenging Homeschool Start

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Starting a new homeschool year is exciting but can also feel overwhelming. In this episode, I share some of the common challenges we face, like kids resisting lessons or forgetting things over the break. I offer practical tips to ease the transition, like involving your kids in planning, starting with subjects they enjoy, and reviewing key skills before diving into new material.

I also talk about managing that overwhelming feeling by setting a flexible schedule, prioritizing homeschooling, and getting kids involved in household chores. Remember, feeling overwhelmed shows how much you care about your kids' education—and you’ve got this!

Key Takeaways:

Involve kids in planning to reduce resistance.
Start with enjoyable subjects and gradually extend lesson time.
Review key skills forgotten over the summer before moving forward.
Set a flexible schedule around homeschooling and prioritize it.
Get kids involved in age-appropriate chores to help manage the household.

Resources and Links:

Homeschool Better Together Community

Math-U-See

Morning Time Plans

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:05.4	Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?
0:10.3	Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.
0:18.2	I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and
0:22.0	into the wonder. Let's do this. What have I told you that feeling overwhelmed at the start
0:34.1	of a new homeschool year is not completely a bad thing.
0:39.4	You probably wouldn't believe me, right?
0:41.9	Stick around to the end, and I will tell you why that's exactly the case.
0:47.8	But look, starting a new homeschool year, it's exciting.
0:52.5	It brings about a lot of changes. Some of those can be pretty unexpected.
0:58.4	Of course, if you've been doing this for a while, nothing's really all that unexpected anymore.
1:04.0	I will tell you, though, I'm not going to throw a kid under the bus, so I can't give you too many
1:08.9	details. We've had good starts. We've had bad starts.
1:12.8	And there was one year. We had a particularly horrible start so bad that we didn't start at all.
1:20.5	I just threw up my hands on the very first day and had my husband deal with it, which is not
1:25.9	something that I do a whole lot. I have to be honest,
1:30.0	but I was getting nowhere. We eventually worked it out and we got off to a better start,
1:36.6	but it was not on the day that I planned and it was not in the way that I planned. So just know that
1:43.2	even those of us who have been doing it a very long time
1:46.0	and have written books about homeschooling can have truly big struggles at the start of a school year.
1:53.5	And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Some of the things that you might struggle
1:57.2	with at the start of that school year and how you can deal with those things.
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