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HS 005: Warning: Your Homeschool Plan Isn't Going to Work by Pam Barnhill

Published: May 27, 2016, 5:30 a.m.

The search results taunt me. \u201cCreative homeschool: A lot of ideas\u201d \u201cGreat homeschool/education ideas\u201d \u201cUsing Pinterest as a free homeschool curriculum\u201d (<\u2014- Really!? Isn\u2019t that akin to \u201cEat homemade ice cream for dinner for 13 years\u201d?)

I give up. I just can\u2019t live up to all the homeschool hype. The mummified chicken. The salt dough maps. The notebooking page for a third grader that has more lines than my kid could fill in a month. He burst into tears over that stupid notebooking page (no, I wasn\u2019t requiring him to write on every line) and honestly I felt like crying with him.

Because homeschooling shouldn\u2019t be this difficult. Because I am supposed to enjoy staying home with my kids each day. Because it\u2019s all my own fault. Listen to hear the rest...