Tag: First post
May
23
Why You Need This Blog…or Welcome!
This is your traditional ‘Welcome to my blog’ first post. The first post is always the hardest, maybe because it’s difficult to choose a starting point, but I have a feeling that I won’t be at a loss for words.
All great beginnings start with a vision, and I would like to share mine with you. Homeschooling has changed a lot since 1989 when we first started homeschooling our 11 year old daughter. Actually, we tried to start in 1983 when Rachael’s kindergarten teacher (Calvary Christian Academy in Denver, CO) told us that due to her ‘precociousness’, she would do much better in a home school situation! I really wasn’t sure how to take that, but being somewhat of a 60’s throwback turned newborn Christian, I found the unconventional idea of homeschooling intriguing. However, at the time we were “professional” foster parents for an unwed mothers home and the administrators of the program did NOT like the idea at all. I guess they thought the young mothers might want to try it themselves or something.
Homeschooling is so much more accessible now, with abundant support available in almost every capacity, more curriculum choices than we know what to do with and last, but certainly NOT least-the internet! You could almost design an entire curriculum from online resources alone.
The One Thing That Hasn’t Changed in 20 Years
Aside from all the wonderful changes that the early homeschoolers didn’t have, there is one thing that hasn’t changed at all. The homeschool family’s finances, or lack thereof. It is a rare family that successfully homeschools without one parent staying home full time with the children. Homeschooling is definitely a full time job!
Unfortunately, the US economy is geared around a two income household, which makes surviving on one income very difficult for the majority. Not that it can’t be done, and done well, I personally know many parents, even single mothers that have taken up the challenge enthusiastically and with great success, but I know more families that struggle with it every single day.
We were one of those families that struggled financially with trying to live on one income, and began to explore solutions in a variety of home business endeavors. Finding good ideas and resources were scarce and scam awareness was not yet in my biological data base. As a result, over the last 20 years I have researched 100’s, if not over a thousand various ways a homeschool family can make money and maintain a respectable, thriving homeschool at the same time.
In a conversation one day with one of my dearest friends, we were talking about an article on “How to Choose Your Perfect Business” and one of the questions was, “What do you know the most about?” While I was musing over the last 20 years of homeschooling, playing ’soccer mom’ and all the other mini businesses that I had run, my friend pops up with my long sought answer: “Your perfect business is finding home businesses for others!”
She was right, I was always coming up with new ideas, or new takes on old ideas, and actually, was probably almost annoying….OK, moderately annoying… at my constant obsession with finding another “new” idea that could solve someone’s financial woes. All this was starting to make sense and I finally began to see how God might be able to use those countless hours searching every knowledge source I could lay my hands on to help others.
All that to say is my vision for this blog is to put in print all the possible ideas and resources for homeschool families to make money at home while still keeping up with the kids’ home school. Part of the solution also lies in teaching your kids to start their own business and make it part of their everyday school. I’ve even developed what others call my “Goodwill Project” and have a website that has all the resources you need to make home business a part of your homeschool. I would love to have you stop by HomeSchool-Entrepreneur.com sometime and say ‘hi!’.
Meanwhile, I would love your feedback and look forward to serving you. And maybe you’ll even stumble across that life-changing idea for your perfect home business!
Welcome to Homeschool Entrepreneur!
Our mission is to help homeschool families create a home business for several reasons; Running a business in the home creates a natural learning environment for all ages, one that will benefit your child in so many ways* . . and the extra money comes in handy, too!
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