{"id":773,"date":"2012-08-08T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/homeschooling-tips-v-prioritize-life-school-home\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T20:49:19","slug":"homeschooling-tips-v-prioritize-life-school-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/homeschooling-tips-v-prioritize-life-school-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling Tips&#8211;V: Prioritize Life, School, &#038; Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Back to School Tips for Homeschoolers&#8211;Tip V of XII:&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"><span style=\"font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt\/normal &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Prioritize Your Life, School, and Home<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">This point is a three hour mini-seminar and audio series, but I will try to summarize it in a couple of brief paragraphs! When we began homeschooling many years ago, even with only one little son, we found ourselves overwhelmed by activity. Ray and I were both working on our master\u2019s degrees. We were active in church. We were homeschooling my sister and helping others homeschool. We lived close to extended family who needed and wanted our attention (including younger siblings at home). <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">One day we sat down to solve our time and activity dilemma, and we made a list of all of the things that could\/did fill our evenings\u2014things we needed to do (meetings, etc.), things we should do (visit elderly grandparents), things we wanted to do, and things that were automatically built in (overtime, church services, etc.). When we examined our list, the total evenings that could potentially be filled came to sixty\u2014if we did everything we could\/should\/would! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Armed with that calendar and prioritizing help from marriage and family teaching we had received, we learned how to prioritize. We looked at the things that we wanted to say yes to\u2014and said yes to them. We looked at the things that we could say no to\u2014and said no to them. We applied the mantra that \u201cwhen you say yes to something (or someone), you are saying no to something (or someone) else.\u201d We asked ourselves who we truly wanted to say yes and no to\u2014and determined early in our marriage that we did not want to say no to our immediate family (our children and each other) just because we were saying yes to someone else.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Specifically, in the area of prioritizing and time management with homeschooling, when we meet new homeschoolers, we often ask them what their days (especially mothers) are like (before beginning homeschooling), and when the mom tells us how busy she was with part time work, volunteering, and other obligations, we ask her what she will cut from her day to make time (three to six hours a day, depending on the ages and neediness of the students) to homeschool. Homeschooling is not something that you can add onto an already full day. It must be prioritized\u2014and put into the schedule before other things of lesser importance. One of the reasons that I am thankful that we started \u201chomeschooling\u201d when Joshua was a toddler is that I never knew of life with daytime hours that were not already earmarked for school. In other words, my days have always been spent schooling. I didn\u2019t have to add it onto other things that I did during the day. Prioritizing school\u2014the hours that it truly takes to educate and oversee our kids\u2019 education\u2014makes a huge difference in the success of a person\u2019s homeschool. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Back to School Tips for Homeschoolers&#8211;Tip V of XII:&nbsp;&nbsp;Prioritize Your Life, School, and Home This point is a three hour mini-seminar and audio series, but I will try to summarize it in a couple of brief paragraphs! 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