Traveling…..
The beauty of homeschooling and having your own home based business is that you can take it all with you. Your schedule is yours. No school vacations to plan around. No keeping track of your vacation days for the year. In our crazy culture of over-scheduling this is quite refreshing. What’s funny about self-employed people, especially those of us who work out of our homes, is that it’s often harder to take a break than it is for people working for someone else. There’s always something more to do and there’s usually no one else to do it.
As for homeschooling…That’s the easy one in my opinion. If you start with the premise that children are always learning and build on that fact, it becomes simple. If you use a homeschool curriculum, you can take it with you anywhere you go. If you lean more towards contextual learning, then the location of your travels will inform what you focus on while you’re there. If you’re an unschooler, your children will find myriads of things that peak their interests and their imagination while in a new environment. If you’re a planner, try and read some books about where you’re heading before you go. Let your kids read up on the sights to see or the historical significance of the area. Give them a map and let them locate routes from where you’re staying to the attractions you want to visit.
As for you work at home workaholics, try a few days away from your cell phone and computer. As someone who spends at least 3-5 hours per day working on my multiple businesses on the compute, that’s a hard one. I believe I should be thankful that I have not yet graduated to a lap top. I need to leave my computer at home during my Thanksgiving vacation. I may have to sneak away to a local library a couple of times, but overall the computer and I are both going to get a much needed break from each other. Remember I spoke about balance in an earlier post? Part of balance is letting the work go and enjoying a vacation without checking in. We’ll see how it goes.
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