The Decision to Homeschool

Listen to your heart when it whispers, ‘Bring them home.’Because that voice isn’t fear; it’s love.It’s the knowing that no one will fight for your child’s curiosity, confidence, and joy the way you will. Homeschooling isn’t about recreating school at home — it’s about reclaiming learning as a way of life.You are enough. They are ready. The world is waiting.

My decision to homeschool was made for me the day my oldest came screaming into the world.

I just didn’t know it yet.

See, Peighton was born with a complicated, fluctuating, bilateral hearing loss that, to this day, has not been formally diagnosed. Even before she was implanted at the age of five, I poured everything I had into her at-home education with a mission to develop her speech and language sufficiently to mainstream her into first or second grade.

But then we fell in love.

Not just with the learning, but with the freedom.

Because homeschooling is anything but schooling at home.

The world became our classroom.

We learned at the grocery and in the kitchen. We studied at museums, experimented on beaches, and journaled on nature trails.

We didn’t spend our hours plowing through worksheets. I devoted very little mental real estate to finding formal curriculum. We didn’t work on memorization because there were no exams.

We simply spent our days asking “why?” And then we found the answers together.

Peighton was in second grade when Covid hit. And families around the globe got a taste of the freedom we’d been basking in. Remote learning fell short for many, and by the end of 2020, homeschooling rates soared from 3.4% to 9% of families with school-aged children in America. Today, there are 3.4 million homeschooling families in the country.

But many more remain on the fence. I see their posts in social pages with increasing frequency: “Can you homeschool and work?” “Is your spouse involved?” “How did you choose a curriculum?” “When is the right time?”

These are the mommas who let self-doubt override their gut.

Do I have the time, they wonder? The patience? The skill?

Well, I’m here to tell you, yes.

For so long as you aspire to foster a love of learning in your child, the rest will fall into place.

So listen to your heart when it whispers, ‘Bring them home.’

Because that voice isn’t fear; it’s love.

It’s the knowing that no one will fight for your child’s curiosity, confidence, and joy the way you will. Homeschooling isn’t about recreating school at home — it’s about reclaiming learning as a way of life.

You are enough. They are ready. The world is waiting.