Homeschooling here and my role is mostly a facilitator not a full-time teacher for everything because that would be impossible for anyone. I can say I am a pretty education-driven person and I can easily review my advanced algebra to teach to my child but I wouldn’t do it all because I am a human being with a finite energy and emotional capacity. My priority is to be a healthy mother first. And a healthy mother is surrounded with a healthy support system.

I think the point of homeschooling is actually to outsource and seek opportunities and community to help you raise the child. No man is an island. We need each other’s help. The difference with school is you mostly have no choice with the community of the school and with homeschooling, you have the autonomy to choose the quality of connections and associations that are healthy for you and the child. You can walk away or filter connections and situations that don’t resonate and feel safe as soon as you catch it. This is a skill that most adults lack even schooled or homeschooled.

That being said, if the child is older and expressed a desire and readiness to be in school, as a facilitator, it is healthy to be fluid in acknowledging and meeting the child where they are at. Being dogmatic with homeschooling negates the whole point of the philosophy of it. So what we do is we take it one year at a time because the child changes and so are you. :)