In your experience and opinion, what is the hardest thing about homeschooling?
Share either the hardest thing you have personally faced or a general idea.
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Finding ways to inspire my boys to write.
Schooling them every day!
Ask the children to sit and listen to me.
Keeping up on everythimg else besides homeschooling.
For the first few years it was finding curriculum that suited my style. After experimenting with different things for three years, I feel I’ve finally found my groove. I’m LOVING my choices and my kids are enjoying it, too. I have plans next year to add a couple of new things, but now I know what makes this homeschool in my house work!
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I really haven’t fund anything there are seasons where one thing may be difficult but there is never really one hard thing….I have homeschooled for so long that I wonder who I may have been had I not homeschooled.
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Parenting! Character training, heart shaping, obedience requiring, forgiving, love your brother as yourself stuff, and making sure their teeth are brushed. Compared to all this, the academics are easy.
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I like what Suzanne said……can relate to that!
I guess for me it is just trying to tie the older children in doing school with the younger children doing “mischief” under their feet. Often the two seem to clash and mum is left feeling frazzled. I often wonder what it will be like when all the children are ‘school’ age and I can give more of me to that…….but that would mean missing the fun of babies and toddlers
Great responses! Varied and honest.
For me, h-sing per se hasn’t been hard…just parenting in general: similar to Suzanne, diligence in child training and those types of things have been what I find most difficult. Also life circumstances make things harder at times but then again, that’s just life! Also, I’ve made things harder but it is also things that I had to go through and learn – less of me, more of God.
I’m reminded of something that Marilyn Howshall wrote,
Amen to that.
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Amen and amen!
The noise.
For me it is the diligence – both the character training and the discipline of doing everything every day (as in housework, schooling etc).
And, on a similar vein to Susan’s post, Carolyn Mahaney said in a talk I’ve listened to recently (and I paraphrase) “God has given you the children that you have to further the process of sanctification in your life”. Now of course that’s not the ONLY reason you have kids but… I think as a h-sing mum you just can’t avoid that – it’s God shaping your character as you shape theirs.
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