Your first year homeschooling will almost never look like what you pictured, and that is not a sign you chose wrong. In this episode, Erin Meinel tells the story of carrying ten years of kindergarten classroom up from her basement and rebuilding school inside her own living room, what she pulled out within weeks, and the one thing she kept that changed the entire shape of their days.

This is the planting season, homeschool side. It is for the first-year mom wondering whether she is doing this wrong, and for the mom in year three who is still running something she inherited rather than chose.

In this episode

• Why everybody plants what she already knows in her first year homeschooling, and why that is completely normal
• What Erin brought up from her basement, and how fast she had to pull it back out
• The one thing she kept, and why letting kids move during read alouds changed everything
• The permission a former teacher had that most homeschool moms do not, and how to give it to yourself
• Why you should plant less curriculum than you think you need

Links mentioned

• erinmeinel.com

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• erinmeinel.com
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand