Homeschooling offers incredible flexibility.

• You can work your childrens school schedule around your spouse’s work schedule, allowing more quality time together.  Maybe this means doing school in the afternoons or evenings rather than mornings.
•  You can decide what days each week become your personal ‘weekend’
• If a child “operates” better during a typical time of day, you can schedule his or her studies for the time that he or she works best
• You can even choose whether you do school year-round with frequent breaks or follow the normal public school schedule.  Or, combine the two with longer vacation time around holidays and a light schedule through the summer.
• I know of single moms who can still homeschool because of the flexibility offered.  During their ‘off’ time they work with their children on schoolwork.

We have always schooled year-round and our schedule has bounced around a bit depending on my husbands work schedule. I feel that time spent as a family is very important, and I feel that being able to spend time with daddy is extremely important as well.  We have started school in mornings, afternoons and evenings. We have schooled through weekends in order to take weekdays off for our “weekend” depending on my husbands off days.  I have some children who work best in the morning, I have one child who has been my biggest struggle until I realized he works better at night.  That change is literally like night and day and has changed our lives.  He could spend hours on a single subject and it didn’t seem that any tactic I tried was working.  I knew he was a hard worker and this behavior wasn’t like him.  As it turns out, he works better at night.  He can think well and focus best then.  Now we actually have tons of fun and share lots of laughs together, and look forward to it each night.  What a relief!