Guarding Your Time

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

 

As a homeschool mom, you probably get a lot of interruptions in your day. I know in my earliest years of homeschooling, it is was big adjustment for our extended family to realize that I was not available certain hours of the day.Prior to homeschooling, I could take social calls during the morning. After I started homeschooling, I found that a morning phone call quickly disrupted my school morning. Simply put, if I took a call, my students disappeared.

If you have family members who like to call and chat with you in the mornings, you can ask them nicely if you can call them in the afternoon or evening at your convenience. Use your voice mail. Turn the ringer off your phone or use the Do Not Disturb feature. On most phones, you can put in a couple of numbers that will always get through to you.
If you live in a neighborhood, you might need to put a sign on your front door to help with people who just stop by. If the neighborhood children like to visit your home, you will need to have a signal of some sort for them to understand when you are doing school, especially when the school systems have a holiday.
If you get distracted easily on the computer while your kids are doing school work, close it and resist the urge to check on things on your phone. Try to be present with your children during their school time. It will make the lessons go by faster. Only open the computer during school if you need it to teach a lesson or show a video. I do use my computer at times to show videos during school. It is rare, but I do pull it out for school once in a while.
Stay in control of your outside appointments. Many offices like scheduling homeschoolers for monring appointments. Most of the time, this can disrupt your entire school day. So do what you can to use one day a week as an appointment day and schedule a light school day, or just schedule appointments for right after lunch.
Encourage your kids to move around in between subjects. This will help them absorb what they just learned, and it will help work out any wiggles that they might have. My doctor told me that my boys have never had many health issues because we eat healthy and get in lots of movement time daily.
What are things that distract you during your school time that you can prevent?
Your Zone Mission today is to declutter the medicine cabinet.Your Home Blessing for today is to wipe your windows and mirrors.

My menu plan for Wednesday is a beef roast and vegetables.
Have a great day!
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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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