In Honor of Mothers

Honoring all moms on today's episode

Transcript

In Honor of Mothers /Episode 10

         Happy Mother’s Day! Welcome to Homeschool Horizons! I’m Yvette, your host. If you celebrated Mother’s Day, I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We celebrated on Sunday! I am feeling so much better now 3 weeks post op. My parents came over, along with my favorite aunt, my sisters and their families. I am very blessed to have them all in my life. I’m especially so grateful to still have my mom with me.  

          I love my mom very much! She has always been an amazing support to me! She is a prayer warrior that has prayed for me and my family incessantly!  I can’t believe I have met so many homeschool moms who have shared horrible stories of the lack of support they have received from their own mother’s! Some have shared that they have also been extremely criticized for homeschooling. While others have shared that family members have even stopped talking to them because they have decided to homeschool. 

If this has happened to you, I am so sorry! I mean especially if that hostility is coming from your own mother!  That is not fair and incredibly sad. Homeschooling is not easy and we need all the support that we can get. My mom is the cutest thing because even though throughout the years she hasn’t really understood how we homeschool; she has still always been on board! She’ll ask little questions here and there and I always try to answer her the best way I can so that she can have some understanding. She and my dad have always attended any performances or homeschool campus events that I have invited them to. The first two weeks after my surgery, my mom even took my sons to their weekly class at their learning center and picked them up as well. Then she proceeded to make me homemade chicken soup!

If you are not being supported by your mom or your extended family, you need to find the support elsewhere. Homeschooling can be very isolating if you don’t put yourself out there and make some friends! As many of you already know, when your kids are little, the easiest way to make friends is through homeschool park days and co-ops. If your kids are older, you can still make friends by placing them in activities or classes at a homeschool campus or enrichment center. Many times, as they make friends, you end up becoming friends with their parents. Church is also a great place to build community and make friends! 

There are many different ways to get the support you need and deserve! You just have to put yourself out there until you find it. Having your mom or extended family against you is very depleting. You need all of your energy to be the best mom and homeschool teacher that you can be.  Having at least 1 or 2 other moms in your life that support you and lift you up on your journey is encouraging and comforting and we all need that! 

We face many challenges that most people who don’t homeschool, never have to face. But these challenges are the reasons why we are amazing homeschool moms! I truly admire and respect you moms that homeschool even though you don’t have the support of your mom or extended family! I want to give honor to all of the homeschool moms before us who have paved the way for us to be able to homeschool in this day and age. I want to give honor to all of the grandmothers who support and encourage their homeschooling daughters or sons or who even have taken on homeschooling their own grandchildren. I want to give honor to my own mother for being the amazing mom that she has been to me for 53 years! I love you mom! Thank you for all of your sacrifices, your prayers, your love and support!

And thank you all for listening today! 

If this episode resonated with you and you are in need of support, please feel free to send me a message. Come back next week because I will be talking about co-ops, enrichment centers, homeschool campus, etc. Have a wonderful week! Talk to you soon!