Free Articles and Getting Started Guides

From Preparing to Homeschool to Keeping Everything Organized, These Free Resources Will Help You Crush Home School

Homeschooling requires a lot. It requires dedication. It requires patience. It requires time. It requires the ability to stay on top of everything while also taking responsibility for your children’s education. As a result, while you need to prioritize your children’s needs, it is important to prioritize your needs as well.

We’ve developed these free articles and guides to help you.

Each of our free articles and Getting Started Guides focuses on a different aspect of homeschooling. We make these resources available for free because we know how difficult it can be to stay on top of everything, and because we know that everyone can use a little bit of help from time to time.

Our Free Articles Provide Insights Into Specific Aspects of Homeschooling

Our free articles provide insights into specific aspects of homeschooling. Each article focuses on a specific topic, like organizing your home school materials or making sure you start your home school days on time. If you have questions about a particular topic or are looking for advice on a particular area of managing home school (or balancing home school and home life), we encourage you to browse our library.

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Our Free Homeschooling Guides for Parent-Educators and Other Caregivers

Whether you are at the very beginning of your homeschooling journey or you are looking for advice on how to manage your family’s homeschool experience with a new perspective, you’ll find at least one of our Getting Started Guides to be useful. We encourage you to read our free articles as well, and our Guides contain links to these articles when they provide additional insight on the topics we’re discussing.

Guide #1: How to Start Homeschooling

If you are brand new to homeschooling, you’ll want to start here. This Guide provides an overview of the seven key steps you need to take to begin homeschooling, and it includes a checklist you can use as you begin moving forward. It also provides answers to some frequently asked questions from parents and other caregivers who are thinking about homeschooling for the first time.

How to Start Homeschooling: Start Here if You’re Beginning Homeschool

Guide #2: Start Getting Organized

Our second Getting Started Guide focuses on getting organized. Organization is important an important aspect of all elements of homeschooling—from organizing your semester to organizing your day, and from organizing your homeschool space to organizing your homeschool materials. This Guide provides 10 tips for getting (and staying) organized, some additional tips that are specific to managing homeschool materials, and answers to some frequently asked questions about homeschool organization.

Start Getting Organized: 10 Tips for Homeschool Organization

Guide #3: Start Getting Out of the House

One of the great aspects of homeschooling is the opportunity to get out of the house. It's great to take your normal school day outdoors on a sunny day, and there are many other ways to enrich your children's home school experience by exploring new places. This Guide provides a list of seven outdoor activities plus seven other options for getting out of the house. It also highlights some free and low-cost options and provides tips for planning out-of-the-house days.

Start Getting Out of the House: Home School Outdoor Activities & More

Guide #4: Start Managing the Ups and Downs

You will experience a lot of emotions as a parent-educator. How you manage your emotions is important. When you experience negative emotions, you need to find ways to cope (and there are ways available). When you experience positive emotions, leveraging these positive emotions can help you maximize your family's home school experience. This Guide provides tips on managing (or leveraging) all types of emotions and answers some FAQs about struggling with homeschooling. 

Start Managing the Ups and Downs: When Homeschooling is Hard (and When It Isn’t)

Guide #5: Start Crushing Home School

No matter where you are in your home school journey, there's always room for improvement. Whether you are struggling with homeschooling or you are at the stage of finding new ways to enhance your children's home school experience, there are steps you can start taking today to take your home school to the next level. This Guide provides 20 tips for getting better at homeschooling and answers some frequently asked questions about getting the most out of every day.

Start Crushing Home School: 20 Tips for How to Be Better at Homeschooling

Guide #6: What If I'm Worried I Won't Be Good at Homeschooling?

For many parent-educators and other caregivers, worrying that they won't be good at homeschooling stops them from getting started. It's normal to have these kinds of feelings about taking responsibility for your children's education, and it shows you care. This Guide provides an in-depth overview of what parents and other caregivers who are new to homeschooling need to know to feel confident as they start their homeschooling journey.

What If I'm Worried I Won't Be Good at Homeschooling?

Additional Resources for Homeschooling

If you are looking for additional resources to help you crush home school, we have resources you can download instantly and start using today. We also encourage you to think about becoming a Crush Home School member. Our members receive a monthly membership package via email that contains tips, recommendations, resources, and much more—all useful for parent-educators and other caregivers regardless of where they are in their homeschooling journey. Learn more about becoming a Crush Home School member.