How to Get Back on Track in Your Homeschool When You’ve Fallen Behind

A sanity-saving plan for overwhelmed homeschool moms

Have you fallen behind in your homeschool plan and now avoid opening your planner because it feels too discouraging?

You’re not alone.

In this episode of The Homeschool Sanity Show, Dr. Melanie Wilson explains why so many homeschool moms fall behind—even when they start the year with the best intentions—and what to do when your homeschool plan no longer matches real life. If you’ve ever looked at your lesson plans and thought, There is absolutely no way we’re getting all of this done, this episode is for you.

If you’ve been feeling behind, discouraged, or quietly tempted to pretend your planner doesn’t exist… this episode will help.

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More Episodes on Planning

• Best Homeschool Planning Tips (Replay)
• A Home Planner to Keep You Organized
• Best Homeschool Planning Tips
• Tips and Tools to Organize Your Homeschool for Insanely Easy Planning

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Why Homeschool Moms Fall Behind

One of the biggest reasons homeschool plans unravel is something called the planning fallacy.

The planning fallacy is a common human thinking error that causes us to underestimate how long things will take, even when we’ve done them before and should know better. In homeschooling, that might look like:

• assuming a science experiment will only take 30 minutes
• believing you can finish two full language programs in one year
• thinking you can get to co-op faster “this time”
• forgetting how long math or writing lessons