Surviving Home-Schooling Through the Corona Crisis

Back in 1995, Wendy Hamilton did not want to home-school her children. But concern for her child made her launch into the less travelled path of home-schooling. For the next twenty years, Wendy home-schooled her four children from kindergarten through to college. During that time, Wendy discovered home-schools must function differently to institutional schools to avoid burning out the mothers. Although Wendy is not superwoman and often struggled with energy drains, this low-stress method of home-schooling enabled her to follow her interests while she trained her children. Forget five hours of schoolwork a day, twenty minutes (or less) of instruction combined with good mothering is all it takes. In this easy-to-read book, Wendy lays out a simple but highly effective method of teaching and answers common questions like: How do you deal with the roller-coaster of emotions home-schooling brings in its wake? What works and doesn’t work? How do you juggle housework, schoolwork, pre-schoolers and your own needs without going crazy? And because a home-school is not a school in a home, Wendy paints a picture of a typical home-schooling day so we can see the difference. A must-read for women struggling with home-schooling through the coronavirus.