Homeschooling with Confidence: The Power of Asking for Help

 

Homeschooling with Confidence: The Power of Asking for Help

I used to feel like I had to do everything myself—to show how strong and independent I was. At the time, I had several young children and homeschooled them. My house was a mess, but I never asked for help.
Instead, I doubled down. I tried to prove I could do it all and didn’t need assistance. I took on even more, spending my summers doing homeschool assessments, leaving me frazzled and barely keeping my kids clean and fed. I was struggling to keep all the balls in the air.
Then one day, during a homeschool assessment, a lady at my house pointed out that I already had plenty of help right there—my kids! She suggested I let them pitch in by helping clean the house and doing chores. At first, the idea seemed foreign to me, but I decided to give it a try. I started a chore chart, and to my surprise, my life became so much easier.
That experience taught me a valuable lesson: I had to admit I needed help before I could get the help I needed.
If you feel like you have to prove something by doing everything yourself, I want to encourage you to think differently. Imagine how much better your homeschooling journey could be with support from someone who has been there and understands the joys and challenges of homeschooling.
You don’t have to do it all alone. You don’t have to prove anything. With guidance and coaching, you can homeschool with confidence. My experience and expertise can help you feel assured about the choices you’re making for your homeschool. Together, we can navigate the ups and downs, and you’ll discover that you’re doing a great job. Let’s make this journey easier and more joyful—together.
I’d love to be your homeschool life coach and support you on this journey.
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Learn the Basics of Learning and Homeschooling

Penney Douglas has homeschooled her 10 kids for 25 years. She has a degree in Education and taught in public school. She LOVES learning! And she LOVES kids!
So, this is me. I want to see KIDS LOVE LEARNING. I want to see kids live in a learning environment. I am doing my best to help moms to relax and enjoy their time with their kids. Homeschooling is the perfect opportunity to build a close, tight-knit, loving family. That’s my vision for homeschooling.
You are building a cathedral. Your family and each of your individual children are precious to God, and He has great plans for you. So, really do your best to provide a warm, loving environment for your children in your home. Yes, we have to provide an education, but it does not have to be done the way schools do it. There are so many fun, enjoyable, delightful ways to teach our children. We can find out what they are interested in and want to learn more about and go with that!

Please consider taking this course to learn about learning and come along with us as we make homeschooling delightful, effective, and fearless.

E-course by Penney and Shawn Douglas – The Basics of Learning and Homeschooling
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This document is chock full of good Christmas School ideas:
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Christmas Copywork
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Safe Haven Homeschooling Store on TPT – Curriculum for Charlotte Mason Homeschoolers and Everyone else
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Freebie:
Charlotte Mason Lite
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Safe Haven Homeschooling Blog
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Coaching Course I created – Also called The Basics of Learning and Homeschooling – I take you through the course and do a coaching call with you each month
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Safe Haven Homeschool Shop for homeschool merch, t-shirts, mugs, notebooks, phone covers, and much more!
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https://linktr.ee/penneydouglas – All the places you can find me!
Changed By Love – My original Blog about Homeschooling, Family, Faith, and Alternative News
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An Interview with Rhea Perry – A Homeschool Pioneer

 

In 2019, I had the honor of interviewing Rhea Perry of Educating for Success.
It was such an honor to interview Rhea Perry, one of the homeschool pioneers. She started homeschooling in 1987. She and her husband moved their family to the country and focused on raising their kids and a bunch of animals. They were happy with their new life, but her husband, who had a teaching job, was missing out on all the fun. So Rhea and her children started working on ways to replace Daddy’s income. They decided on real estate and found ways to use the internet to make money from home. They more than replaced his income, and he was able to come home and participate in all of the wonderful things that the family was doing. He was also able to take care of his father who became sick and needed full-time care until he passed away. Rhea has so many amazing stories of ways that they worked together as a family to make an income that far surpassed what they could have made in traditional jobs.
She does what she does because she knows that college is not for everyone, and she believes that we can take advantage of the internet to guide our children into unprecedented opportunities. We can help our children become entrepreneurs and live an extraordinary life.

The Toxic Truth

  • The U.S. is 49th in Average Life Expectancy.
  • 75% of Americans have chronic disease.
  • 74% of Americans are overweight.
  • 50% of US children are overweight.
  • 50% of Americans are diabetic or prediabetic.
  • 1 out of every 3 children are diabetic or prediabetic.
The same scientists that worked for the tobacco industry are now working for the food industry.
What do you think they might be adding to our foods to make them addictive, like they did tobacco?
Thousands of chemicals are allowed in our food that are not allowed in other countries’ food.
Food dyes are a problem. Yellow dyes, a petroleum product, have been associated with depression, autoimmune disease, and ADHD. Red dyes are another petroleum product, which shouldn’t be in our bodies, are associated with hyperactivity in children and increased cancer risk.
In 1991, Kare Possick wrote a book called, “Why Are You Poisoning Your Family?”. She exposed what was happening with our food, and thought it would make a difference.
But back in 1991, the autism rate was 1 in 1000 children. 10 years ago it was 1 in 100. Now it’s 1 in 36.
They’re estimating that by 2030 it will be 1 in 5.
18% of our teens have fatty livers.
Cancer rates in young Americans are up by 74%.
40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis.
Fertility rates are declining yearly now.
Thankfully, big changes are coming, especially with the appointment of RFK, Jr. as the Secretary of Health. But we still need to clean up the nano and microplastics in our food and our skincare products.
Microplastics are even being found in the placentas of our babies.
Microcirculation makes up 70% of your circulation. Micro vessels provide oxygen and nutrients to your organs and cells. Over time the microplastics in the micro vessels build up and block the microcirculatory vessels of oxygen and nutrients and life force.
Microcirculation nutrition can help us restore our health.

The Spanish Flu drove royal families to search for answers to the root cause of illness and the effects of aging using only the power of plants. They turned to to scientists to find the answer. For decades this brilliant team of scientists studied and isolated the highest frequency molecules from 44 of the most powerful healing plants on earth. After 30 years of meticulous research, they found out that “No disease can exist in an alkaline environment.” – Dr. Otto Warburg, 1931 Nobel Prize Winner.
They recognized the vital role of nutrition and oxygen in the body.
In 1973, a team of European scientists took their research even further. They documented and perfected a process to extract the most nutritious parts of each plant, refining it from over 150 million possible combinations.
This led to the creation of iHeRQles, the most advanced breakthrough in nutrition to this point in history. This formula not only supports the body’s internal systems, but also presents a new frontier in reverse biological aging. The elites started using this formula. But they kept it to themselves.
A visionary businessman saw an opportunity to bring it to the masses at affordable prices.

It Takes Great Faith to Homeschool – But I Have Faith that You Can Do It!

 



This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness – a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says:

“We are right with God through life-giving faith!” Romans 1:17

 

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 1 John 5:4

 

In the same way that we had faith to have 10 children out of obedience to God, we homeschooled our children out of faith and obedience.
We learned how to walk in faith and obedience through a very difficult situation in our lives.
In 2006, we had lost everything. Homeless and defeated, we found ourselves at my parents’ house. My father reluctantly let us stay, his disappointment palpable. When I say us, I mean my husband, me, and our eight children, including 1-year-old twins. The judgment from others was unbearable.
We turned to God, pleading for direction, but heaven seemed silent. One night, sitting in my childhood bedroom, I felt hopeless. Then came an unexpected call. A man we barely knew invited my husband, Gary, to lunch and delivered a startling message: we were supposed to leave Ohio. I was skeptical. “How?” I asked. The man’s advice was bold: announce our departure and trust God to provide.
Desperation drove us to act. We told everyone we were leaving, set a date, and prayed. Then, the miraculous happened. Money came from unlikely sources, even from those who had judged us.
That step of faith changed everything. Each subsequent challenge strengthened our trust in God.
Homeschooling requires the same kind of faith—believing you can provide both education and spiritual grounding for your children. And that God will help you with this impossible mission – to provide a better education than any school could give your children. Let me help you develop the faith to homeschool fearlessly, trusting His guidance every step of the way.
To talk to me about coaching you along your homeschool and faith journey, contact me here:

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