Homeschool Tip #2

 Tip # 2 is as simple as adjust as needed. I’m a perfectionist through and through and sometimes (90% of the time) I’m my own problem. Homeschooling isn’t going to be perfect. It is going to be messy! We have a quote that my Kindergartener and I memorized at the beginning of the year. “Mistakes are proof I’m trying” It was easy at first to see how that applies to my Kindergartener but recently I found how that applies to me as the teacher. So keep trying, learn from your mistakes and let them make you a better teacher. 

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