Homeschooling Your Children is a Serious Undertaking.
You shoulder the total responsibility for your child's educational success.
It should not be a surprise that many homeschooling parents lose sleep and have anxiety attacks about which curriculum to use when schooling their children.
The truth is that there is not a Secret Formula that parents can apply that will yield the "choose xyz curriculum" result.
In all actuality, there cannot be.
Do not fear! There is a mindset that will help you through your homeschool journey.
Your Qualifications as A Teacher As the chief educator in your home, take the time to evaluate your strengths, gifts, and weaknesses.

• What kind of a learner are you?
• What fundamental goals do you have for your children?
• What subjects and topics make your heart skip a beat?
• What subjects and topics make your stomach turn?

Once you have identified these answers, write them down.
Decide what subjects you would be best suited to teach your children based on your own knowledge and experience, which subjects you need a bit of support material, and which subjects you need to find help teaching.
Your Children: As Learners Your children are uniques knit together with their own personality, interests, strengths, and weaknesses.
All children have that "one thing" that makes their heart race with excitement.
It is your job to identify that one thing.
(This may not emerge for years.
Keep exposing them to various opportunities, subjects, and people until it surfaces).

• What makes their heart beat faster?
• What makes them melt into a whining fit?
• What are they really good at?
• Where do they need practice?

Your Plan You need to take a few days or weeks to study your strengths/passions/and goals and compare them to your childs learning styles/passions/needs.
Know that your state will have an established list of subjects they believe you need to teach your children: Math, English, History, and Science.
Are you prepared to teach each of those subjects?

1. Find a program, or list of objectives for each subject.
   You can find this by doing a simple search online, or by visiting your local public school district.
   
2. Remember: you are in charge.
   You get to decide what your children are learning!
3. Purchase a teachers planner and map out (in pencil) your school year, leading by objective or goal.
   
4. Purchase, find, borrow, or create the materials necessary to complete each objective.
   

It's All Attitude Children sense whether those in charge are confident or are fearful.
Not matter what, it is best to lead with confidence.
You can homeschool your children.

• Utilize the wealth of knowledge around you.
  
• Know your own strengths and weaknesses
• Identify your child's learning style, and do not be surprised that all your children will likely fit into different molds
• Choose or design a program that is wrapped around your child's passions.
  A soccer enthusiast will embrace discovering about statistics by studying the top world cup players in history, or learning to write a person letter by addressing it to a real life player.
  Makes sense right?
• Realize that Homeschooling is a Journey.
  It's hard, but its worth it!