2 Things That Ruin Your Chances of Homeschool Success

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There are two key relationships that can sabotage homeschool success. Your relationship with the child and the child’s relationship with learning. If either of these is in need of repair, the learning process is stunted.

So many questions brought by struggling homeschool parents to FB groups or support meetings come down to a problem with one or both of these relationships. The problem hides because we don’t think about these relationships when it comes to our kids’ learning routines. But without addressing these underlying problems it becomes impossible to move forward.

“The emotional bond between students and teacher — for better or worse — accounts for whether students learn.”

Daniel T. Willingham, Why Don’t Students Like School? pg. 65

How do you know if your child has a bad relationship with learning?

Here are some signs that you need to stop everything and fix this.

• They cry when it is time for school work.
• They put random answers on worksheets or in workbooks. (Things so random you know they didn’t look at the question or try to think about it.)
• They say they hate you when you ask them to do anything that resembles learning.