In this episode, I chat about what I think are the 3 essential steps to get started with our homeschooling journey in 2025:

1) Defining your WHY and doing a deep dive into it

• A 7-layer deep dive helps you to consolidate your reasons to home educate and make it into a mission.

2) Get started with the “de-schooling” process

• This process helps you move away from entrenched ideas about how education should be like and embrace the flexibility and philosophy of home education more freely.

3) Spend time connecting with your children

• To observe and make notes on their learning style and interests, to build wonderful connections with them and design a lifestyle and education program that is genuinely productive and beneficial.

In this episode, we explore the idea of "freedom" that comes with homeschooling and what it means:

- why does "freedom" feel like a struggle?

- how can we embrace this freedom (if it exists) wisely, confidently and successfully?

- why it is important to embrace and teach our children to respect this freedom?

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” Freedom is what allows us as humans to express ourselves, to create new things, to innovate, to pursue our dreams, to live life on our terms not other people's. When we embrace freedom, we are empowered to take control over our choices in life, including choosing how we would like to educate our kids.

All of us Home Educators feel this emotion on this journey - fear, which is related to anxiety and worry.

"Have I done enough for my children?"

"What if I have gotten it all wrong?"

"Am I failing my kids?"

In this episode, I share my reflections on this emotion to unpack it, and suggest some strategies to tackle it:

1) Making Home Education a mission

2) Turn fear on itself and instead of thinking "what if", think about "what if not?" - What is the price or trade off if we are not homeschooling our children?

3) Take action, one small step at a time. Taking action forces us to confront the fear, thinking about it just makes it bigger and more paralysing.

We need to build faith to overcome fear - and faith, as Bob Proctor says, is about seeing the invisible, believing the incredible and achieving the impossible. We need to focus on the way forward, one step at a time.