Episode 35: Homeschooling Is Not Your Identity

Welcome back to another episode of The Relatable Homeschoolers. In this episode, we discuss homeschooling is not your identity. We hope you will join us and listen in.

What, exactly, do we mean when we say that homeschooling is not your identity? To sum it up briefly, it means you are more than “just” a homeschool mom. Your worth is not based on your performance as a homeschooling mom. Homeschooling is something we do, it is not who we are. We are whole people with interests and passions, dreams and goals beyond mothering and homeschooling. This is healthy.

We all need to make time for ourselves away from our children, to engage in interests apart from our roles as mothers and educators, and we should never feel guilty about this. Most of us are with our kids day in and day out, every single day, and we need to be intentional about scheduling time to be ourselves, to–as The Lazy Genius puts it–“feel like a person.”

Whether that looks like friend time or marriage time or alone time, it is wise to model for your children what caring for yourself looks like by making time for your relationships and interests that aren’t part of motherhood and homeschooling. As we all know, when we care for ourselves, we are better able to care for others. We can’t get water from an empty well.

We hope you enjoy this episode, and that it leaves you feeling refreshed and ready for a new day. You are doing an amazing job at this homeschooling life you are called to; just remember–it is not who you are.

Thanks so much for listening; we greatly appreciate you taking a small amount of time out of your day to spend with us.