Finding Your Feet: A First-Month Homeschooling Guide

Finding Your Feet

A first-month homeschooling guide to slowing down, noticing more, and discovering what works for your family.

Just started homeschooling and wondering what the hell you're supposed to do now?

Maybe you've got 47 browser tabs open, a growing list of curriculum recommendations, and a nagging feeling that you should probably have some sort of plan.

But here's the thing. You don't have to figure out your entire homeschool in the first week.

Finding Your Feet is a practical, reassuring guide to navigating those early weeks without the pressure to recreate school at home. It's about giving yourself and your child time to settle in, noticing how they learn when they're not sitting at a desk, and gradually discovering what actually works for your family.

Rather than handing you someone else's version of the perfect homeschool, it helps you begin finding your own.

What's inside?

The guide walks you through five gentle stages:

Decompress → Notice → Follow curiosity → Experiment with rhythm → Look back

Along the way, we'll explore:

• What to focus on in those first weeks (and what can wait).
• Why doing less initially can help you understand your child better.
• What learning can look like outside traditional schoolwork.
• How to handle those moments when you worry you're not doing enough.
• What to say when other people question your homeschooling.
• How to start experimenting with a rhythm that suits your family.
• How to make more informed decisions about curriculum and resources.

What you'll receive

Finding Your Feet- The complete guide

The full first-month guide, with personal stories, practical suggestions and reassurance for the days when you're second-guessing everything.

Your First 30 Days- Printable

A one-page overview of the five stages, so you can see the bigger picture at a glance.

What I'm Noticing- Reflection sheet

A simple page to help you notice your child's interests, frustrations, discoveries and the little things you might otherwise overlook.

Already downloaded my free First 30 Days printable? This is the full companion guide, with the explanations, personal experiences and practical support behind those five stages.

Why I wrote this

When we started homeschooling, I bought almost everything I thought a responsible homeschooling parent was supposed to buy. Grade-level workbooks. Chemistry sets. Maths subscriptions. Learning portals. Most of it got used once, or not at all.

Meanwhile, my son was learning through things I hadn't planned: astronomy, D&D, Minecraft, puzzles, growing things and following whatever happened to capture his interest.

It took me a while to realise that I was so busy trying to make homeschooling look like an education that I was missing the learning already happening in front of me. And I think I spent more time deschooling myself than I did my son. 😂

That's what this guide grew out of. Not a perfect formula. Just the things I wish I'd understood when we were finding our feet.

Is this guide for you?

It's for parents who are about to start homeschooling or have recently begun.

Maybe you're excited but overwhelmed. Maybe your child needs time to recover from school. Maybe you're worried about falling behind, or you're already feeling pressure to prove that homeschooling is working.

You want to do right by your child, but you don't yet know what your days should look like.

You don't need all the answers before you begin.

This guide is about giving yourself the space to start discovering them.

What this guide isn't

It's not a curriculum, a teaching manual or a daily timetable.

It won't tell you exactly how to teach your child maths or reading, and it won't promise that everything will fall into place in 30 days. I'm not a teacher or an education expert.

I'm a parent three years into homeschooling who's still figuring things out, still occasionally buys things that get used once, and has learned a lot from getting it wrong along the way.

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