Homeschooling your children is very involved. Hopefully no parent goes into it thinking they'll have nothing to do. The curriculum we use even gives us the amount of time we should set aside each day for parent to prepare and then student and parent to learn and teach. I have been through the 3rd grade material before so my preparation time is not doubled. But I still have to look over and prepare for my 5th grader. And each of your children will have different learning needs, more than likely, so tack on a little time for that kind of preparation.
I am not telling you this to scare you, but prepare you. I have found that after a time of doing it you become efficient and have some system to use. It creates some of the time you'll have alone too. There is nothing wrong with making sure you have that time either. Children respond best when you create structure for them. For example: We get up and do our chores, have breakfast and start school by 9am. We have a straight school M/T Th/F from 9am to noon. The curriculum we have gives the option for a 4-day schedule and we take full advantage of that. On occasion we do not finish school by noon. Now that would be due to difficulties in understanding concepts. But this is the point. We have the ability, in homeschooling our children, to tend to these needs our child may have without them feeling rejected by their peers, without them having to be labeled a failure from bad grades and many more reasons. We can spend that extra time on a subject/concept so that we don't have to "fail" them due to a misunderstanding. What we end up grading our children on is their tests or attitudes toward school over all. And this here is how schooling is supposed to be/should be. So don't be afraid or overwhelmed by homeschooling your children. You are investing in their futures. And that is so important.
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