Here's what no one mentions when they talk about homeschooling:
Most days aren't Instagram-worthy. There are no standing ovations for opening the same math book for the 47th time this year.
We show up.
We read the next chapter.
We work through the lesson. Again.
While everyone else seems to be out there changing the world with their big ideas and bold moves, we're just... here quietly doing the work.
But here's the thing…
This steady, unglamorous, faithful work is changing everything. In you and in them.
I've learned this the hard way with my own kids. One of mine completely unravels when I switch things up. Consistency is his oxygen.
My other one? Give her the same math program for six weeks straight and he's climbing the walls.
So I had to find a middle ground.
Instead of constantly overhauling our entire approach (exhausting for everyone), I started building in pause days—moments where we don't abandon our plans, but we do set them aside for 24 hours to explore something completely different. Something fascinating. Something they'd never encounter in their regular rotation.
These aren't "throw everything out and start over" days.
They're strategic breaths of fresh air.
Because I've noticed something as my kids get older: when we bail on something halfway through too many times, they stop trusting the process. They start wondering if anything is worth finishing. And that's a pattern I don't want to build.
Of course, we still drop things that truly aren't working.
But if thousands of families have walked a curriculum to the end and found it worthwhile? We push through the middle-muddle.
So if you're feeling the mid-fall monotonous slump right now...
If you're wondering whether you should scrap your plans and start fresh...
DON’T.
Just pause. Inject one day of wonder. Then pick back up where you left off.
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My daughter and I recently started volunteering at a local cage-free, no-kill dog shelter. She's obsessed with dogs, and this is exactly why we homeschool—so our kids can chase their passions now, not someday when they're "done" with school.
These volunteer mornings? They're our pause days in action. The kind of learning that doesn't fit in a textbook but changes everything.
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