Homeschooling Shifts: Fewer Philosophies, More Practical Approaches

📚✨ In this video, I talk about the changing homeschooling trends, including the rise of dual-income homeschooling families and more flexible educational approaches. I also offer advice for new homeschooling parents on embracing a natural homeschooling lifestyle and managing their time effectively.

💡 Topics Covered:

- Changes in homeschooling since 2020

- Dual-income homeschool families

- Educational philosophies

- Pre-made curriculum resources

- Tips for new homeschoolers

Don't forget to comment below with your thoughts on how homeschooling has changed for you!👍✨

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[wendycarter]

Thanks Pam! Going on our 6th year of homeschooling and love all you pour into homeschooling, without adding stress to my mess! We got side tracked into a certain popular homeschool philosophy that my kids ended up not liking at all, so circling back to their interests and doing less lesson planning myself. Refocusing on our vision and our why was very helpful. Truly appreciate all you do.

[heatheraz]

We just completed our 5th year. Started the July of 2019. When I started I just wanted an open and go type curriculum to make sure we "covered everything". I researched curriculum. I never research the different methodologies. Over the years we have changed things. I put together our own courses for a few subjects. It feels pretty rewarding. My oldest is a 10th grader now. For instance my daughter loves everything equine. So I have created a thorough Equine Science course that she will take each year of high school.
I love the flexibility we have and that my children are learning so much better at home!

[heidiking]

These observations are SO insightful. Our co-op and local homeschool group has changed so much over the years, and I keep trying to nail down why. I think this potpourri of changes in the overall homeschool culture are exactly what is going on, and speaks well to what folks are looking for these days. Thank you for articulating this so thoughtfully & clearly.

[JoyfulNoiseLearning]

Great video, Pam! I completely agree with your observations about the current state of homeschool families. This was really interesting! I am a bit sad that more people don’t know ant to learn about education philosophies, that was one of my favorite parts when I first started homeschooling since I was a former teacher, but it makes sense that a lot of homeschooling families don’t have time. They really do just need to do what’s best for their family and may have been pushed into homeschooling unexpectedly.

[YogaNurture]

I was JUST telling my friend that I wanted to step away from all the philosophies because they were a burden on my mind and start focusing on which curriculum I really want that crosses my t's and dots my i's. I was so split between Classical and Charlotte Mason, which each contain wonderful practices, but have a lot of purists pulling a tired mom one way or the other stating that they are the best. I lean on the fact that I was educated with PACES and other traditional textbooks and my success was more about our attitude toward learning and our focus on Godly habits then it was on the method.

[EnglishwithGabby]

Spot on! I’m a college professor in NYC who also homeschools and I’ve met so many working parents who are homeschooling! Thanks for this video

[momofmany]

I am so excited to see Citizenship Together!

[Spurz]

I am one of the newer homeschoolers. After my son had to be home we realized how much he was just being pushed through. He has special needs and was in an "exceptional children's" class in public school since pre K. He is extremely smart but due to his sensory needs and being selectively mute was being placed in a classroom with children of all different types of abilities. Subsequent to the pandemic and him being sent different "packets" and meeting with his teacher online we realized he was being taught at a kindergarten level when he was technically in 4th grade. That just completely blew my mind! Still does! They were teaching a very intelligent and capable 4th grader kindergarten lessons because of the type of class he was in! I know that some of those children were at that level but some obviously were not including my son. Now of course i dont think he was always being taught at such a lower grade level as in the beginning of his public school career we did have some veey amazing teachers. However we had always noticed he was not being given work that really met his intelligence level especially the higher the grade level.
Anyway short story long, I have found it difficult even after 4 years of homeschooling to step away from the scheduling and planning as if he were still in public school. Any more tips on how lean into a more organic style of homeschooling?

[Mariadejosejesusymaria]

Lord, give me the grace to homeschool my teen son, that his dad approves it snd undertands its the best choice . Please .

[LlamaMamaAlpaca]

Wow. Insightful. I definitely saw a few of these come up in the community this week.

[sarapayne]

We just finished our official first year homeschooling. We had a rocky start with the passing of my mother in law but I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly we got just the essentials done. I mean one hour and we were done with “school work”.

[YasminB-ud]

I am one of the covid homeschoolers and I can report that the purists are alive and well and will scold you if you step one toe out of the CM method. (I love CM by the way, but my kid needs spelling help and I might not have 12 years to homeschool and hope that my child learns to spell just from dictation... You get the idea.) I'm just one data point, but I over-research curriculum to the point that borders on time-wasting because I want to see it ALL 😬 I also view curriculum programs as just the "spine" to which I can add or subtract anything I want.

[ezekielfenjavandehei]

I was public schooled my whole life so I was shocked to find there were so many philosophies and then I was shocked to find how many have a sort of culture to them. Also people who can be very judgemental about what curriculumor philosophy you lean towards. I specifically don't say what curriculum or philosophy I like or use until I feel comfortable with someone.

[cooker-qx]

Would you care to expand on why you’re seeing more and more parents not having the time to research and plan as we did in the beginning? You repeated, “Parents don’t have the time…” several times and I’m curious what reasons you’re seeing for this.

[annai]

I'm surprised that you endorse 1 1/2 of education for a 7 year old. This is against the law in many states (when we started, our state required 900 hours a year - which is a lot more than 1.5 hours/day) . Having homeschooled for a long time now, I cannot imagine getting "everything" done in that little time. We have never had a year with fewer than 900 hours - most years, we've gone substantially over.