What to Expect Your First Year of Homeschooling

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When you start homeschooling you are stepping into a whole new world. Knowing what to expect your first year of homeschooling can be the difference between becoming the heroess who slays the villain and the one who runs away from the story.

If you are homeschooling for the first time this year, there are a few things you need to know. Understanding that all of these things are normal, they are part of a process of creating a new culture for yourself and your children, will save you from feeling like a failure. Which brings us to number one.

Here are 13 Things to Expect Your First Year of Homeschooling

1.You will feel like a failure, but you aren’t.

This point is very important to understand. I am writing all of this to try and help save you from the fate of feeling like a failure. Yet I know I will fail. Saving you from feeling like a failure is an impossible task. Yet I know how that feeling can suck all the life out of you.

You wake up every morning with dread instead of joy. We don’t want that. No home can survive with dread as it’s under current emotion. You need joy in that place. And this is the most important thing to focus on. Joy takes work. Bliss doesn’t happen without a lot of…