If there were any skill I would recommend for the pre-parent, it would be the one I discuss today: counseling 101, a homeschool parent’s most important skill (how to kindly, authentically, and diplomatically deal with people). Really. Tough. Work. Trying to figure out how to co-exist in the world with other people (especially our little people, and our little people trying to coexist with their siblings: one of the hardest aspects of homeschooling). However, because we weren’t put in this world alone, we need to learn to empathetically engage in our social sphere. Hence, I offer you: Counselin ..read more

“The Charge” by Brendon Burchard explores how individuals can activate their passion, purpose, and drive to live a more fulfilling and charged life, providing practical strategies for personal growth. I want to incorporate the concepts from The Charge so you can live the charged homeschool mom life too! In “The Charge”, Brendon Burchard argues that the only way to improve the quality of your life measurably is to learn how to activate the ten drives that make you human. These drives are your desires for more control, competence, congruence, caring, connection, change, challenge, creative expre ..read more

In a world that teaches conformity, I hope to imprint uniqueness and individuality in my children. Our children were created and designed for a unique purpose. And so were we. So how do you become more you as a homeschool mama? Get your You Be You Checklist to develop you beyond Homeschool Mama How to become more you beyond your role as a homeschool mama? We get to be more us and our kids get to become more them. How to unearth that unique purpose in our children? We give our children experiences to explore, we give them books to engage their curiosities, we give them tools to discover t ..read more

Are you ready to press pause on your homeschool mom life, on the busyness of your daily homeschool, housework, and driving routines, and instead of racing to check off boxes before summer gardens invite you outdoors, take cues from the great outdoors, honour and acknowledge the shifting seasons—and honour and acknowledge a seasonal shift in your homeschool mom life too? Picture this: a serene retreat where you can slow things down, breathe, create a space to spend time with you, to notice how this past homeschool year has been for you, to assess how you feel, to clarify your plan to address yo ..read more

Straight up, I can offer help for homeschool moms in this one thought: we homeschool mamas need to treat ourselves as kindly as we want to treat our kids. (Because we can’t practice compassion toward our kids if we’re not practicing it toward ourselves.) How do you address self-criticism, self-judgment, not good enough, or perfectionist tendencies as a homeschool mama? Real help for homeschool moms starts from the ground up: dealing with our mindsets and emotions and building self-compassion techniques into our real homeschool mom life. Get the FREE Class for Self-Compassion for Home ..read more

There are a few reasons why a homeschool mama might feel like she’s losing her mind, so I’m going to discuss a topic that no one loves talking about, yet all homeschool mamas experience. Anger. Their angry feelings. When we learn to deal with our big emotions, like anger, impatience, and frustration, we can learn how to homeschool without losing our minds. Get the Big Emotions Audit to Plan for YOUR Big Emotions Here’s a discussion to help you consider and plan how to homeschool without losing your mind. You can guarantee, since I’ve homeschooled my four kids (presently aged 15 to 22), I’ve e ..read more

Emily McDermott helps moms declutter their homes, heads, and hearts. Emily is an Air Force wife and stay-at-home mom to two young boys. She writes about minimalism, intentional living, simple living, and habits at her blog Simple by Emmy. In 2014, Emily discovered minimalism. Living with less has helped her to discover her “why” and remove what no longer serves her in her home, her calendar, and her head. So let’s chat declutter tips for homeschool moms with Emily from Simple by Emmy so we can declutter our homes, heads, and hearts too. If you haven’t figured this out, you’re definitely not ..read more

What's the connection beween self-care and deschooling? Mindset! Because how you think affects HOW you homeschool and how happy you are. The post Self-Care & Deschooling: Is there a Helpful Connection? appeared first on Capturing the Charmed Life ..read more

If you want to learn how to deschool 101 in your homeschool, you have some homework to do. Homework, get it? A homeschool mom prescribing homework. Let’s chat about how to deschool 101. Here are 7 lessons that propelled me toward more satisfaction, individualization, and freedom in my homeschool. So, here’s a story from last fall. Despite being invited to a not-back-to-school picnic last fall, it did not dawn on me that public school started that same day. Summer activities still occupied our schedule until the first week of September, because the weather was still, well, summery. Since our fa ..read more

Deschooling, the process of breaking away from traditional schooling and its associated beliefs, practices, and structures, helps us live a purposeful life. While the concept was initially introduced by the unschooling movement, it has since become increasingly popular among homeschool families so that all homeschool families can find ways to help their kids learn more effectively and live more purposefully. In my homeschool years, I’ve learned there’s a connection between deschooling and living our lives more purposefully. Get your Deschool your Homeschool Challenge Say whaaaa? Descho ..read more