How to Avoid Home-school Burnout
by Beth Deane
Isn’t this something we would all love an easy answer to? Here we a few things that work for me, or that I would like to try.
Work as a team: The whole family is in this together.
Don’t expect perfection from yourself or anyone else: When we first decided to home school I felt that the school was not perfect, therefore I could do this.
Take time out for you: Read a book, go for a walk, look in dress shops, etc. Leave the children with your husband/partner, do a swap with a friend or enroll them all in a class, for example our boys have horse riding on Saturday mornings. This is best made into a set time each week, because there is never any ‘free’ time to do it otherwise.
Have time one to one with your husband/partner: Even if this is just thirty minutes each day when the children are playing outside. Again this becomes a habit if there is a set time.