Am I Failing As A Homeschool Mom?

Am I failing as a homeschool mom?

Welcome to this week’s coffee chat. We are dive into whether or not you are failing as a homeschool mom. I wanted to jump into this topic because I’ve seen so many posts of moms being discouraged. So I wanted to talk about when you feel like a homeschool failure.

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Why do We Feel We are Failing as a Homeschool Mom?

There are a number of reasons we feel this way. I’ve been homeschooling my kids for almost 10 years, and I have 6 kids. While homeschooling, I also run a business. It is not a side-hustle internet business, I have clients that I work with during the day.

There are a few reasons we feel like we are failing as homeschool moms.

1. You’re tired

We dismiss this a lot of the times because we are always tired. It doesn’t really feel that different when we are really tired. You are winding down the school year. Your mind and body are getting ready to crash.

You are tired. So my best advice: Never make a decision when you are exhausted.

Feeling like you are failing is a signal from your body that you are tired. You don’t want to make any life-altering decisions right now.

2. Your year did not go as planned

Another contributing factor to feeling like failing as a homeschool mom is you didn’t check all your boxes. You started out in August or September with great enthusiasm and expectations for the year—every mom starts the year this way.

We start the year with certain expectations. And I can guarantee that none of us met all of them. Then you start to wonder where did the time go.

What we plan at the pinnacle of our enthusiasm probably won’t happen because reality bites.

Recognize your accomplishments and write them down. Also, acknowledge how life interrupted your year.

3. Your kids didn’t meet the education goals you had for them

This is a hard one. Maybe your kids didn’t zoom through algebra like you wanted. Or you missed some reading goals for the year and you need to work on them over the summer.

These things really hit our mom egos. We feel like we need to prove that homeschooling is the right choice. But we are the complete underdogs because everyone automatically assumes that this is the worst thing we can do. So are constantly fighting that battle to prove ourselves.

When our kids don’t meet these goals, we feel like we’ve failed.

Solutions to Failing as a Homeschool Mom

Watch or listen to the coffee chat for overcoming feeling like a failure. There are practical things you can do right now feel like a homeschool success.

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