Episode 35: Homeschooling Is Not Your Identity

What, exactly, do we mean when we say that homeschooling is a calling? To sum it up briefly, it means you are more than "just" a homeschool mom. Your worth is not based on your performance as a homeschooling mom. Homeschooling is something we do, it is not who we are. We are whole people with interests and passions, dreams and goals beyond mothering and homeschooling. This is healthy.

We all need to make time for ourselves away from our children, to engage in interests apart from our roles as mothers and educators, and we should never feel guilty about this. Most of us are with our kids day in and day out, every single day, and we need to be intentional about scheduling time to be ourselves, to--as The Lazy Genius puts it--"feel like a person."