Getting Started On Homeschooling:

Advice For Beginning Your Adventure!

Getting started on homeschooling can be the beginning of something deeply rewarding for all of you. One look at all the advantages homeschool brings and you can see we wouldn't swap homeschooling for anything! What price do you pay for two happy children who wake up full of excitement and fun?

OK - they are human – I'm not counting when they're tired (dentist days aren't too hot either).

Beginning Homeschool

If your children are young and have never been to school, then getting started with homeschooling is just a natural progression from where you are now. You're probably in the best position for beginning homeschool, because your children haven't had to go through anything that might put them off learning and you're not having to 'undo' any bad habits.

You’ll also notice just how young all the other children seem who are going to school.

I used to watch them toddling up my street and wonder just how 'ready' they were. William's favourite occupation was watching 'Old Bear' and playing with his tractor as far as I remember!

Coming from a homeschool past, I was quite sure William and Catherine wouldn't go to school. But as their peers began to get ready for school, it did begin to bother me. You’re aware you’re doing something different and, of course, your friends begin to ask questions.

Homeschooling advice

My main homeschooling advice for getting started on homeschooling, whatever the age of your children when you’re beginning homeschool, is to invest time in finding the answers to the questions you’ll face. I did - and it was worth it, because I was surprised how threatened my friends were.

I guess all parents wonder whether their child is ready for school and feel vulnerable to some extent.

So if you’ve come up with a different path you can expect some opposition. And if you look at some of the bad things about homeschool, you’ll see I've shared some advice on how to face the grandparents…

Getting started with homeschooling

Of course, the very first thing when you’re beginning homeschool is to check out the homeschooling requirements where you live.

Here in the UK, certainly for England and Wales, it’s pretty straightforward as you’ll see and you’re pretty much free to decide for yourself just how you want to play this. You can decide what method suits you best and what your goals are.

In the US it’s up to your State regulations.

My next homeschooling advice is to join some national homeschool organisations and make contact with any local homeschool groups. When you’re beginning homeschool, it always helps to know you’re not alone and it’ll give you ammunition against the overly-inflated socialization argument.

Then you’ll need to get advice on how you’re going to homeschool and look at the various methods that might suit you. If you’re beginning to ask yourself, can I do homeschool? and you want some encouragement, you're certain to find it here.

But by now you’re on the way to getting started on homeschooling – and that’s a decision which I hope brings you as much joy as it has us.

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