Your homeschooler is behind in academics and your greatest homeschooling fear is realized. Maybe it’s a struggle with algebra or your kiddo still isn’t reading on the expected grade level. Your niece has better handwriting, your mother-in-law is judging, and the pressure is on to somehow bring your child up to standard.
The pressure that homeschooling parents feel is great and very real. Even if you’re in a state that doesn’t require the oversight of an umbrella school or yearly testing, there is still the need to “prove” how effective your homeschooling is to the very opinionated people who doubt your choices.
As the sole educators of our children, there’s a lot of weight on our shoulders to get it right. It’s almost like we’re constantly trying to outrun a monster named “grade-level expectations” that threatens to destroy our homeschool – and confidence.
That monster is real, made of societal expectations, state mandates, standardized tests, mothers-in-law, articles about 15-year-old homeschoolers graduating college, and our own pride. And while the monster may not have real horns or claws, the bites are still very painful.
Help! My Homeschooler Is Behind!
So what do you do when your homeschooler is behind?
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