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Self-Care Planning for Homeschooling
Reset, refresh, refuel before reflection. Planning a personal retreat for each season is the key to a peaceful and present homeschooling parent.
Reset, refresh, refuel before reflection. Planning a personal retreat for each season is the key to a peaceful and present homeschooling parent.
Create systems that increase productivity in your homeschool. “A good system shortens the road to the goal.” – Orison Swett Marden. This is a candid statement that speaks truth. Anyone can make a goal. It is the achievement of the goal that brings success. Reaching a goal takes work. Systems should be timesaving, sustainable and produce results.
Building a better homeschool takes 4 steps. Step 1 is rest. Step 2 is building a rhythm. Honoring your priorities is the focus of building rhythm. This means saying yes to priorities and no to interruptions or distractions. Rhythm is reinforced with habits. Step 3 in building a better homeschool is to build better habits.
With a solid homeschool rhythm and a set of objectives, you can school your children in 90 minutes a day
R-E-S-T. This is the first step in homeschooling (and life). Before buying curriculum, joining a co-op, or reading that book written by that expert. You must build rest into your day. It’s the oxygen mask that will keep you going and allow you to deliver oxygen to your children.
