 1. Tightwad
Hold onto your wallet, before you sign on the dotted line check around. "Schools-in-a-box" or "canned" curriculums sometimes act as if 'one size fits all' and one size often does not. Occasionally you’ll find elements within a curriculum that either do not work well with your child or are things you find discomforting. Moreover, what works with one child doesn't always work with another. Do what you feel best but be a careful shopper.
2. Chill
Homeschooling is flexible. If anything of what you’re doing doesn't work you don't have to answer to a bureaucracy before you make a change. It is your own decision how to proceed.
3. Deep-6
If nothing you’re using is working cut your losses. You certainly won't get your money back by continuing to use something that isn't working and you and you kids will feel stressed. Of course, for finishing what you start, there is something to be said (another reason to check around before you buy), but if what you're using truly isn't working - dump it. You’ll save your finished/discarded materials for sale at support group curriculum sales. Just because this didn't work for you doesn't mean it won't work for someone else.
4. One Right Way
There is “one right way to homeschool” but it varies from person to person and from interest to interest.
5. Choice
Remember that homeschooling is a continuing choice. You have a choice to continue to choose to homeschool or to make another one.
6. Private or Public
Realize that enrolling your child in online public charter schools will return your child to the public education sector. Rather than homeschooling you will be enrolling in a public school home-study program. It doesn’t mean this is a wrong choice just be aware of all the ins and outs of the program you are considering so you can make an informed choice.
7. Survival
If you have a good babysitter or co-op friend for babysitting, send her home with wine or chocolates after babysitting. This can't harm.
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