This is the time of year where as a homeschooling support group leader, I get all sorts of phone calls asking all sorts of questions about how to do it. There will be another onslaught in September.
What do you do for social interaction?
How do you make sure they’re learning everything they need to learn?
How do you know you’re doing a good job?
It’s funny because really, I won’t know I’m doing a good job until one day they have graduated and are in college. That will be when I will have “proof” that my homeschooling course of study worked and it did what it was supposed to do. And even then I guess I technically wouldn’t have proof until they finished college and got a job.
So here’s the answer, for non-homeschoolers and homeschoolers alike, to the quintessential question, “But how do you know?”
I really believe that most mother’s have maternal instinct. That little inner voice that tells you that something is right or not. I think part of learning to be an effective parent is to trust that instinct.
This is hard for us to do is it not? From the day our babies our born, there is advice. And the advice comes from experts at that! It’s not like some random mom is just giving her opinion–expert advice is to be followed. . .or so the line of reasoning goes.
So here’s the sneaky mama tip of the day: trust your gut. You’re probably right. If you’re not, you’ll be glad you followed your instinct anyways. If you have parenting advice for someone else. . .tell them the same thing. We moms have a way of knowing things.
Embracing the sneakiness from within my gut,
The Sneaky Mama
