Every single homeschool mom needs support throughout her family’s homeschooling journey. This calling, to raise our children and educate them in our homes, is both a tremendous blessing and a challenge at times.
As with everything in life, a homeschooling journey will have its ups and downs, good and bad days. It is easy to love homeschooling your little blessings in the ups and on the good days, but the downs and bad days can be a struggle.
There is no set break time for a homeschool mom. No taking a sick day or just not showing up because you need a day off.
While we can’t treat homeschooling our children like we would employment, homeschool moms do need to find ways to take care of themselves.
Sometimes that may mean putting the books away for the day, heading out on a field trip to get outside of the four walls of your home or even just watching movies and eating popcorn with your kids to refresh and renew everyone’s spirit.
Remember, in order to take care of those you love most, you have to take care of yourself, too. You can’t give others what you don’t have yourself.
I pray that these free homeschool encouragement resources are a blessing to you in the midst of your challenging times as a homeschool mom.
Free Homeschool Encouragement Resources
- Printables
Simple Journaling – Record your thoughts, a prayer and a verse in the morning and in the evening each day using these simple journaling pages. There is also a page for you to write thoughts about your homeschool day as well to help you see what is and what isn’t working on a weekly or monthly basis.
Simple Devotions – These simple devotions were written with fellow homeschool moms in mind, taking into account how busy your days are and knowing the need each of us has for encouragement, reflection and prayer!
Simple Inspiration – This book was written to encourage you throughout each season of your family’s homeschool journey. Inside you’ll find 31 chapters to refresh, renew and inspire your family’s homeschool adventure!
10 Encouraging Quotes for Homeschool Moms – Encouragement is a very necessary thing in the life of homeschool moms. Take time to read these quotes and print the one that speaks to your heart — or all of them!
7 Uplifting Ways to Start Your School Week – A fun, unique play off of the popular soda, 7 Up, this printable features 7 simple ways to start your school week in uplifting ways.
- Digital Magazines
Homeschooling Today Magazine – Known for encouragement and practical help since 1992, you can view their latest magazine digitally and subscribe so that you don’t miss any future issues.
The Link – Be sure to click on “Read Current Issue!” at the top menu to access this digital homeschool magazine featuring articles covering a wide variety of topics to help you throughout your homeschooling journey.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine – If you click the image to read the magazine, it will prompt you to download the TOS app, but you can read the magazine without the app if you’d like by clicking on “Magazine” in the top menu and selecting “Read the current issue” dropdown option. For additional homeschool encouragement and support from TOS, be sure to check out their past magazine resources here, as well as “You Are Not Alone” here.
You Can Do It – This is the encouragement of The Homeschool Quest Ezine that helps transform the homeschooling journey from daunting to delightful!
- Blog Posts
Finding the Homeschool Help You Need – Whether you’re a brand new homeschooler or you’re gearing up to homeschool tweens or teens, all homeschool moms need help from time to time.
5 Ways to Find Encouragement for Your Homeschool – Not sure where to look for encouragement as a homeschool mom? Check out these few ideas to help you find what you need to support yourself during your homeschool mom journey.
Finding Community as a Homeschool Mom – You may think you’ve looked in all the right places to find fellow homeschool moms in your community, but you might have overlooked or not even considered a few of these ideas!
A Homeschool Mother’s Prayer – Sometimes, all we need is to stop and pray. Sometimes we don’t have the words to say. From one homeschool mom’s heart, perhaps these words are yours too.
A Prayer for the Homeschool Mom – You can never have enough prayers, Momma. Take all of the prayers you can get from family, friends and fellow homeschool moms.
The Truth About “Falling Behind” – I’m including this post because it is one of the most common concerns for homeschool moms AND it includes a free printable to remind you, “There’s no such thing as falling behind when you homeschool.”.
Daily Encouragement for Homeschool Mothers – Charlene Notgrass writes encouraging words for homeschool moms every weekday. You can either read it on her website or sign up to receive emails in your inbox.
30 Days of Encouragement and Inspiration for Homeschool Moms – Kathie from Character Corner hosts a yearly series written by homeschool mom bloggers designed to encourage and inspire you! (Please note this link will likely change yearly as new series come out, but a quick search on her site should bring up each year’s series.)
20 Days of Homeschooling Encouragement – Amy from Rock Your Homeschool hosted this series several years back, but I’m certain that the encouraging words written in the past will still apply to your homeschool mom heart today.
If you like reading blog series written by multiple authors and are homeschooling middle or high school, be sure to check out the two series below that I hosted.
For every more homeschool mom encouragement blog posts, be sure to check out my homeschool encouragement category here.
- Podcasts
The Homeschool Well Podcast – Co-hosted by friends who were public school teachers and turned homeschool moms, they’re here to help “make your homeschooling journey easier and actually enjoyable”.
The Homeschool Solutions Show – This Podcast has over 400 episodes and counting with topics ranging from grade levels to literary fun, from building mom community to self-care for homeschool moms.
Homeschool Conversations – Hosted by a homeschool graduate and homeschool mom, she brings informative, encouraging and fun to her show with real-life homeschool families.
If podcasts are your thing, be sure to check out the links below.
