The Greatest Gift Homeschooling Gives: Time
- ladypetayoung
- Jul 20
- 3 min read
Every day, I get a front-row seat to something magical. Not staged. Not polished. Just real, raw, and beautiful in its own chaotic rhythm. I get to witness my children become.
They:🌱 Wonder aloud — asking questions that stop me in my tracks.“Why do bees dance?”“What would happen if the moon fell into the ocean?”“Did God imagine colour before He made it?”
They’re not afraid to sound silly. They don’t worry about being wrong. Their curiosity flows freely — untamed, unfiltered — like water down a stream.
🖍 Create without fear — painting entire stories across the walls of their minds and pages of their notebooks. Sometimes that story spills onto furniture and floors, but hey, that’s the price of brilliance.
They sing off-key, build contraptions out of egg cartons and duct tape, compose bedtime operas about dragons and laundry monsters. There are no rubrics. No red pens. No art grades. Just the joy of creating because they can.
📚 Learn without limits — one child deep in a book on ancient Egypt, another sounding out dinosaur names longer than my weekly shopping list. We go from baking sourdough to studying yeast under a microscope. From planting seeds to measuring rainfall and charting growth. We don’t compartmentalize life into "subjects." We live it.
Homeschooling isn’t just an educational choice for us — it’s a lifestyle, a mindset, and most of all, a gift.
The Gift of Time
In this fast-paced world, time feels like the one thing families never seem to have enough of. But here, in our little bubble of home learning, time is abundant.
🕰 Time to grow — not just academically, but emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. They’re not racing to meet milestones or cramming for tests. They’re growing as whole people — messy, wonderful, developing souls.
🕊 Time to heal — from the sensory overload, the unrealistic expectations, the societal pressure to “perform.” Whether it’s the healing of a child who didn’t thrive in traditional systems or a parent learning to trust their instincts, homeschooling becomes a soft place to land.
🌸 Time to be — without rush, without deadlines, without pressure. We have long mornings in our pajamas, lazy afternoons filled with books, spontaneous nature walks, tea time poetry, and discussions that spiral into research projects and rabbit holes of discovery.
We’ve traded in bells and schedules for rhythms and seasons. We’ve learned to listen — to the children, to the land, to our own intuition.
And yes, some days are exhausting. Some days I question myself. The dishes pile up, the toddler draws on the dog, and someone cries over a math problem that was “just fine yesterday.”
But still — I wouldn’t trade this life for anything.
Because we’ve chosen home, not school.
And with it, we’ve reclaimed what so many are longing for:Time to be together. Time to be ourselves. Time to truly live.
So if you’re feeling the tug — if you’re dreaming of a slower, fuller, freer way — know this: it’s not about having all the answers. It’s about being willing to ask the questions and walk the path alongside your children.
The world can wait. Childhood can’t. And neither can connection.
Homeschooling gives us time. And that is the greatest gift of all.
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