Keeping the Dream Alive

When your homeschooling adventure begins, everything is new and exciting. Your homeschool books smell like they came straight off the printer. Even lesson planning and record keeping seem more fun than chore at first. But be prepared for the honeymoon phase to ebb and tide. No one has a perfect homeschool year, month, or even week. It is important to intersperse your daily curriculum with field trips, play dates, and hands-on activities. We all need reminders that learning is supposed to be fun - not a duty to “get over with”! North Carolina is full of educational destinations that are an easy day’s drive. Also, take advantage of your city’s visitor’s center or website to discover treasures in your own town that you might have overlooked. Whether you chose to homeschool from the beginning, or came upon homeschooling “accidentally,” you are bound to experience slumps. It is almost certain that over time your homeschool will relax into something more familiar and predictable, but that is also the time when you usually notice that this homeschooling thing is more than just a passing phase. You have become one of the over 33,000 families in North Carolina who are proud to call themselves homeschoolers!

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