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The Many Moods of a Homeschool Mom

October 29, 2014 By Kris Bales · PRINTABLES TIP: Always go toward the end of a post to find the printable. · Disclosure: This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. {I may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.}

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The Many Moods of a Homeschool Mom

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The following post is from Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers:

We homeschool moms experience a wide spectrum of moods – often all of them in a space of a single day or even a single hour. Do you recognize any of these and their causes?

Happy

Possible causes:

  • The boy read his first words.
  • The girl got all her spelling words correct.
  • Every box on the lesson plans got checked off.
  • The dog ate the lesson plans!
  • Chocolate

Sad

Possible causes:

  • Rude comments from family and friends
  • Rude comments from a homeschool mom with a different homeschooling style
  • Thinking that graduation day is never going to get here
  • Realizing that graduation day is already here
  • There is no chocolate.

Excited

Possible causes:

  • Sighting the UPS truck
  • A field trip planned by someone else
  • The first day of school
  • The last day of school
  • Chocolate

Worried

Possible causes:

  • Thinking, “What if I’m not doing enough?”
  • Thinking, “What if I’m ruining my kids for life?”
  • Thinking, “What if I didn’t choose the perfect curriculum?”
  • Thinking, “What if I’m not teaching my kids every. single. thing. they’ll ever need to know?”
  • Thinking, “The kids may have discovered the stash of chocolate.”

Frustrated

Possible causes:

  • The reading lesson went something like this: {sounding out} “C-A-T…ball!”
  • All the math facts that the kid knew by heart yesterday have been completely forgotten today.
  • The question, “What about socialization?”
  • The entire case of pencils purchased at the beginning of the school year has disappeared – and it’s only the second day of school.
  • Somebody ate the chocolate.

Exhausted

Possible causes:

  • She worked on lesson plans all weekend long
  • She was up much later than everyone else just enjoying the silence.
  • She was on her way to bed, but stopped to start a load of laundry, unload the dishwasher, tidy the kitchen, take food for tomorrow night’s supper out of the freezer, grade a few papers, and tuck the toddler back in bed.
  • She was awake half the night worrying about this thing called homeschooling.
  • She needs more chocolate.

How many of these moods have you experienced today – or, you know, in the last five minutes?

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About Kris Bales

Kris Bales is the quirky, Christ-following, painfully honest voice that founded Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. She and her husband are parents of three amazing homeschool grads. Kris has a pretty serious addiction to sweet tea and Words with Friends. She also seems intent on becoming the crazy cat lady long before she's old and alone.

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  1. kortney says

    October 29, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    sighting the UPS truck does make us way too excited!

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  2. Jane says

    October 29, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    All of the above! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Cindy Howe says

    October 29, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Hahaha hahaha haha hahahahaha I love this! Check mark on every single thing!

    Reply
  4. Becky {Milo & Oats} says

    October 29, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    Ha!!! This is AWESOME! You pegged me so perfectly….it’s like you’re in my head:-) Love it Kris.

    Reply
  5. Allison says

    October 30, 2014 at 9:57 am

    Ha! This is hilarious! And also accurate. 🙂

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  6. Jaime says

    October 31, 2014 at 9:33 am

    I read this aloud to my husband and 8 y.o. yesterday. SO funny! And, SO accurate! The 8 y.o. sort of slunk away when he heard the “frustrated” list…until we got to chocolate and he laughed again. Thanks for making all of us smile, Kris!

    Reply
  7. Judy says

    October 31, 2014 at 10:00 am

    Nailed it! Especially the chocolate! : D

    Reply
  8. Dawn says

    October 31, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    This was great!! 18 years and I still experience every one of these!! Teaching my youngest to read these days, with all the frustration that goes along with that. But I know that one day I will miss it. I’ve graduated 3 now, with 7 to go!
    Sharing this post!!

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  9. Lisa says

    November 1, 2014 at 5:48 am

    This is terrific! Made me feel a lot better knowing I’m not alone (especially because I’m in the “worrying” area today and have been awake since 3 am doing so. ha!)!

    Reply

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