YMB #136 Finding Freedom in Your Homeschool Schedule

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Your Morning Basket podcast, host Pam Barnhill discusses the importance of creating a flexible homeschool schedule that aligns with your family's values and goals. Pam shares practical tips and tools for overcoming the challenges of feeling overwhelmed by all the subjects, avoiding falling behind and building margin into your homeschool schedule.

Pam encourages listeners to embrace rabbit trails and unexpected learning opportunities, as well as to build in margin to allow for emergencies or unexpected events. She also introduces the concept of a minimum viable day and loop scheduling to maintain structure and balance in your homeschool routine.

If you want to create a homeschool schedule that aligns with your family's values and goals, this episode is a must-listen. Check out this Your Morning Basket podcast for more practical tips and tools for your homeschool journey.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:08.0	Do you want to build closer relationships?
0:10.0	Remove some of the stress around planning and enjoy learning with your children.
0:15.0	Welcome to your Morning Basket.
0:17.0	I'm Pam Barnhill, a homeschool mom just like you,
0:20.0	and I'm going to show you the magic and
0:22.5	fulfillment that morning basket or morning time can bring to your homeschool.
0:27.1	Grab your coffee or tea and let's get started.
0:32.8	Hey there, it's Pam, and welcome to episode 136 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. Today we're going to be
0:39.3	talking about homeschool scheduling. And yeah, this is a little bit of a different topic for
0:45.1	the Your Morning Basket podcast, but an important one, as we have more and more people come into
0:51.0	homeschooling, or maybe you've been around homeschooling for a while and you've never
0:55.1	quite gotten a schedule that you feel comfortable with. And I want to talk about how we can find
1:02.6	freedom in scheduling, which is not something that people usually think about when they think
1:09.3	about a schedule. Kind of freedom is the opposite of what
1:12.9	they think of when they think of scheduling, but there really is freedom to be found in creating
1:19.4	your own homeschool schedule. And we're also going to talk about how morning time can fit into
1:26.1	this process. So let's kind of back up a little bit and talk about
1:33.2	why scheduling is more about freedom and less about keeping you down or keeping you tied up.
1:41.6	Because I think when people think about the word schedule, they think about,
1:45.3	oh, this is going to be very rigid and I'm going to have myself put in a box and we're not going to be
1:51.6	able to have any flexibility. And that's really not the case. And people often say, oh, I don't like the
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