As homeschooling parents, we have to overcome many obstacles and hurdles, to provide out children with the education and lifestyle we want for them. When you first begin, one of the biggest barriers to home education, is dealing with naysayers.
In those beginning months and years of home education, many of us are fragile. The slightest bump in the road can shatter our confidence and leave us questioning our decision to homeschool. And so, when people around us find fault in our homeschooling, it can send us into a negative spiral, of self-doubt and shame.
This Blog-post may contain affiliate links. Please see Disclaimer for more information.
So what do you do when someone tells you that you shouldn’t homeschool your children?
In episode 34 of the Raising Mums podcast, I discuss how to deal with naysayers, in a way that will leave you feeling empowered, rather than ashamed.
The key to dealing with naysayers is to identify if they are truly coming from a place of concern, or simply feeding their own ego.
In both situations, put yourself into their position and respond with love and compassion.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t stand up for yourself. If you are being mistreated, you must! But do it with compassion, and you will leave the situation feeling more empowered, and confident in your decision to home educate your kids.
This episode of Raising Mums was brought to you by Miraj Stories!
You can save up to 25% off on this Islamic app for children aged 4-9, with an exclusive Discount Code just for Our Muslim Homeschool fans! It includes Islamic audiobooks, picture books, songbooks and games.
It’s Halal and there are NO ADs! Alhumdulillah!
Miraj Stories is such an EASY way to incorporate Islamic learning into your child’s homeschooling!
Have you decided to homeschool but you’re uncertain how to start?
When we start homeschooling, many often hit Google and Facebook groups desperately searching for answers to our many questions. Instead of answers, we often find an ocean of differing responses and come away with even more questions than when we first started!
How do you homeschool your kids when everything is so confusing?
Read on and find out what’s included in thisessential guide,how it can kick-start your homeschool and put all your worries at ease.
How to homeschool in your country
Legal issues are incredibly confusing for most new homeschoolers. When you first decide you want to homeschool, one of the biggest obstacles your way can be the confusion over how to legally and successfully start educating your child at home.
Home education can be simple and natural in many ways, but the legalities around it can be complicated and unclear!
When you start homeschooling your children, it often feels like you’re going against the ‘norm’. If you have come into contact with this kind of attitude from friends, acquaintances, even family members, preparing yourself with knowledge of the expectations and legal requirements in your country will give you confidence in your decision and help you to move forward and even reassure family members around you.
With a main focus on UK and US homeschool legal issues, this eBook answers many of the major questions you have when you first start to homeschool. And don’t worry if you live in other parts of the world, I have you covered as well with links and resources to help you find the legal homeschool information for your country!
The Home Education eBookwill give you much-needed answers to the main questions we ask ourselves before we start homeschooling:
? How involved will the government be in my homeschool?
? What is the best way to communicate with my local government?
? Do I need to deregister my child from school? And how do I do that?
? Do I need to contact my local education authority regularly?
? Can I get financial aid?
Start your homeschool by navigating the legalities with confidence!
Knowing your legal rights is only the start of your journey. Many new homeschoolers feel overwhelmed by the task at hand and even doubt their ability to deliver a decent education to their children.
But how do you do that? How do you know you’re making the right choices? What do you need to think about to ensure your children get the best education possible?
? Do I need teaching qualifications to homeschool my children?
? Does my country require me to track and report assessments for my kids?
? How do meet with other homeschool families?
Stop telling yourself you can’t do this.
With the right tools, you can provide your child with a fruitful home education.
Tackle home education challenges
As beautiful as homeschooling is, it isn’t always simple. In fact, many of us find multiple challenges and obstacles standing in our way before we even start. However, many families continue to homeschool successfully, despite facing some tricky situations.
The Homeschool eBook offers advice regarding some tricky homeschool challenges:
? How will my children find chances to socialise?
? Can I homeschool successfully with multiple children?
? Is it possible to homeschool an only child?
? How do I juggle working and homeschooling at the same time?
Challenges such as a job or multiple children don’t prevent you from bringing home education into your family.
If you really and truly long to provide your kids with a home education, don’t let these challenges stand in your way.
Every homeschool is different and that is the beauty of home education. With a variety of family dynamics and circumstances, home education is not only possible but preferred as it can fit around your unique family life.
Home education beyond primary
Most homeschool blogs and Instagram accounts seem geared towards the younger children, usually up to age 11. But what about our teenagers? What will happen to our happy home educated children as they begin to approach the age when they will need qualifications and to prepare themselves for going into the world of work or university?
TheHome Education eBookaddresses this concern. It helps you paint a picture of what the options may be for older children and those wishing to apply to colleges and university. Will home education be a crutch or a valued stepping-stone? Read the eBook to find out!
Want to get your hands on the eBook?
No matter how old your children are or where you live in the world,this eBook is a valuable resource to have on hand. Save yourself the trouble of scrolling through Google and reading confusing information for hours and hours. This eBook brings all the essential information into one easy-to-read document. All you have to do is Sign Up!
Homeschooling children can present its own unique problems that only other homeschoolers get! Although the rewards are great, we home-educating families often hit “bumps in the road” that we need advice to rise above.
In Episode 20 of Raising Mums, I answer questions some of the questions that other mothers and homeschooling families submitted on my Facebook and Instagram pages.
This includes:
?What to do when you Feel like a Homeschool Failure
?Do you need to be Rich to Homeschool?
?How to Schedule your Homeschool Day
? What to do when your Children are Bored
?How to Homeschool Younger Siblings
? Do Unit Studies really work?
And MORE!
To hear the answers to these questions, and more like them,
You’ll be the first to get all the details; including course content, enrolment dates and the Early-bird prices!
Thank you!
You have successfully joined our subscriber list.
Thank you to Our Sponsor!
A big thank you to WordUnited for sponsoring today’s episode!
Be sure to check out their Write & Wipe flashcard kits to practice writing time after time. Their cards are thick, strong, oversized and double-sided! They come complete with pens, instructions and stickers, all in a durable box. With cards your children can learn the alphabet, colours, shapes, numbers and verbs in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and German.
WordUnited’s titles are on a SPECIAL OFF of up to 40% off for a limited time. Home educators can receive an additional 10% off using the DISCOUNT CODE: wu4homeed.
I’ll be taking a short break from these weekly LIVE broadcasts to work on creating an online course for you! If you’re interested in hearing more about it, JOIN OUR MAILING LIST!
Peace and Love,
Interested in our Homeschooling Courses?
Signup to our Newsletter!
You’ll be the first to get all the details; including course content, enrolment dates and the Early-bird prices!
One of the most common questions I am asked online, and in my real-life, is why we chose to homeschool. Why do we do home educate our children?
In the latest episode of Raising Mums I share the TWO reasons my family homeschool.
Raising Mums is a weekly broadcast that streams LIVE from our Facebook an Instagram pages. This week hundreds of you watched and joined in the conversation, discussing why we homeschool our children!
If you want to find out the TWO reasons why we homeschool…
It enables us to provide our children with a true education. Education is the ordering of a child’s affection – meaning that they love that with is good, and hate that which is bad. Educating our children at homes helps us to ensure that this will be the focus of their education.
I Love it! A successful homeschool depends upon the happiness and contentment of the mother (assuming she is the primary educator). Make sure you do what you need to do to find joy in your homeschool day, and your children will reap the benefits.
If you want to know more, make sure you go back and WATCH THE VIDEO!
So tell me, why do YOU homeschool? What reasons drove you to make the big decision to educate your children or home? Why are consdering homeschooling for your children?
Let’s chat in the comments below!
If you enjoyed this episode of Raising Mums, I think you’ll love “Sustainable Homeschooling | Securing your homeschool for the future,”- CLICK HERE
Thank you for stopping by. I’m so grateful to have you here.
If you have any questions, pop them for me in the comments below.
This week, I was on the Our Muslim Homeschool Facebook and Instagram page answering your questions LIVE!
I answer questions about:
Daily Routines
Healthy meal ideas
After school activities at home
Teaching children about the Islamic Heros
Coping with mess
Feeling overwhelmed
This blogpost contains affiliate links. Please see disclaimer for more information.
Big Announcement
In this LIVE broadcast, I also made a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. If you don’t want to spoil the suprise, stop scrolling and watch the video now!
So, here’s the news….
Firstly, these LIVE weekly shows have been given a new name, “Raising Mums”. I chose this name as it reflected my ambition for this show….
A live weekly broadcast that inspires mums to live with purpose and intention, to raise their children mindfully, and empowers mothers everywhere to own their lives and to thrive doing it!
Dr Gemma Elizabeth – Raising Mums
And even BIGGER NEWS!….you can now listen to Raising Mums as a podcast!
Listen to the New Podcast: Raising Mums!
Podcast Launch
Yes, that’s right! Wherever you listen to your podcasts, you can head over there now, and Subscribe to Raising Mums!
You can listen to these broadcasts whilst you’re commuting to work, cleaning the house, working out, or driving the car! The great thing about podcasts, is that you can “grow on the go”, and learning whilst doing other things! Perfect for busy mums…right?!?!
Please had over to iTunes, Apple podcasts and Spotify, and leave a review for “Raising Mums” so other mums, like you, can find it!
You can also simply play the podcast directly from my website! Try it now…
This episode marks the end of Season 1 of Raising Mums. It’s been an incredible few months, and I’m so grateful for all the lessons I’ve learnt during this time and the people I’ve come to know through it.
I’ll be back Sunday 24th March 2019 at 10am GMT on Facebook and Instagram LIVE for the launch of Season 2. insha’Allah
I’ve got some great content planned for you! I hope I’ll see you then!
Peace and Love,
Dr Gemma Elizabeth
Never Miss a Video…
Signup to our mailing list and these LIVE broadcasts will be sent straight to your inbox!
This week I was LIVE on Facebook and Instagram talking about some of the ways you can ensure you’ll be homeschooling for many more years to come insha’Allah.
I’m speaking to the mum who wants to homeschool, and is planning and preparing for this new adventure.
I’m talking to mum who homeschools now, but feels disheartened. Who feels that it’s not going the way she thought it would, and she feels like she’s failing.
I’m talking to everyone who homeschools sharing my nuggets of wisdom as to how you can continue to homeschool for many years. There are things we can do in our lives, to make homeschooling a sustainable, longterm experience for us.
Next week, Sunday 13th January 2019 at 10am, I’ll be back on Instagram and Facebook LIVE discussing, “Homeschool Under Threat| Homeschooling with a baby.”
As we move into the New Year, I always recommend that during this time of transition, homeschooling families should take some time to reflect on the successes and failures of the previous year, the lessons learnt, and set some new intentions before pushing ahead into the New Year.
During this time, before beginning your next homeschool term, seek clarity and direction for your family by getting quiet,turning inward, making dua, and asking yourself some very important questions.
WATCH THIS VIDEO
Watch this YouTube video, when I went LIVE on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and chatted with you about preparing your homeschool for the New Year, and talked you through the questions listed below.
Seek Clarity for your Homeschool
1) What was my favourite homeschool memory of last year?
2) What was my most painful homeschool memory of last year?
3) If you were to summarise the last year homeschooling in one word what would it be?
4) What areas were really successful?
5) What areas/people/topics/activities drained me? What drained the kids?
6) Where can I get help?
7)What can I cut out?
8) Where can we grow, further develop in our homeschool?
9)What areas don’t allign with my homeschool/family vision?
10) What positive change(s) can I implement going forward into the next year?
There are far better things ahead than we ever left behind.
C.S. Lewis
I hope that this video and the questions I’ve posed will help you find the clarity you need moving forward, and help you to live a life with your family that aligns with your values.
If you would like to share the answers to any, or all of the questions above, I would love to hear them! Please leave them for me in the comments below.
Peace and Love,
Never Miss a Video…
Signup to our mailing list and these LIVE broadcasts will be sent straight to your inbox!
The next broadcast will be on Sunday 30th December 10am GMT, insha’Allah. The title of that discussion will be, “I’m just a mum, is that enough?”?? I hope I’ll see you there!
Peace and Love,
Never Miss a Video…
Signup to our mailing list and these LIVE broadcasts will be sent straight to your inbox!
This week on the Our Muslim Homeschool Facebook andInstagram accounts, I was LIVE chatting about, How Super Mums do it ALL! – Part 2 | Productivity & Time Management.
This week on the Our Muslim Homeschool Facebook and Instagram accounts, I was LIVE chatting with you all on the topic of “How to find confidence in homeschooling.”
We talked about:
What confidence TRULY is,
Why have a sense of self-worth, separate from the children lives, is so important to a mother and her family,
Practical steps you can take to gain more confidence in your homeschool life,
