✨ Everyone Can Homeschool…
Even You
Homeschooling is a growing, mainstream choice for families from all walks of life.
U.S. homeschooling has risen to approximately 3–4 million students, accounting for about 3–4% of K-12 learners, with numbers still increasing after the pandemic.
If you’ve ever thought, “I can’t homeschool,” this is for you.
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You Don’t Need a Teaching Degree—You Just Need to Know Your Child
Research shows that homeschoolers outperform public school students by 15–30 percentile points on standardized tests, regardless of their parents’ educational background.
A comprehensive review by the NHERI found no significant link between parental degree and student performance.
Homeschoolers also excel socially and emotionally — 87% outperform traditional students here too.
Why it works:
Homeschooling thrives on personalized education — a child’s strengths, curiosities, and pace.
And who knows those strengthsbetter than you and your child?
Your attunement to your child helps you know best when its working and when something needs to change.
In instances where you don’t know, you get to learn alongside your child or you can find other resources. (More about that in How to Homeschool)
You can Homeschool Even if you Work
Approximately 63% of U.S. households include working parents, many of whom homeschool successfully.
Studies indicate that dual-income families homeschool less frequently, but those who do often use tandem approaches like co-ops and micro‑schools.
A 2016 NCES survey found that 7.2% of children with two parents and only one working were homeschooled, compared to just 1.7% of children with two working parents. While rates are lower for dual‑income homes, they’re still significant — showing that work and homeschool can coexist.
How it’s possible:
Homeschool can flex around shifts: evenings, weekends, co-op days.
Co‑ops and dual-enrollment allow children learning time while parents work.
Online, hybrid, and micro‑school models offer high-quality customization.
- Family can help when you work.
- There are flexibe jobs (not alwasy great jobs).
- You can find a way to allow your family to live your way and by your values.
You Don’t Need to Be Perfect—Just Present
Not perfection, but parental engagement, is the key predictor of homeschool success.
What your child really needs is presence, connection, and responsiveness — not Pinterest-worthy routines.
They just need you to facilitate their exploration of the world.
Once upon a time kids just learned as their parents went about their day.
What this means:
Choose consistency over perfection: even 15 focused minutes daily matter.
Gentle rhythms and rituals support both love and learning.
Celebrating progress and authenticity fosters trust and resilience.
- Most homeschool families get done in 2-4 hours what most kids get done in 8+ hours with homework.
- Kids learn more when engaged in the process. Who cares if they learn at the park, at a grocery store, or at a desk.
You Don’t Need Expensive Curriculum to Teach Well
Homeschooling is significantly more affordable
—families spend $600–1,800 per student per year compared to $16,446/average per-pupil in public schools .
Free options like Easy Peasy and Freedom Homeschooling offer comprehensive, themed curricula .
Curriculum solutions:
Identify free low-cost platforms and printable packs.
Opt for unit studies vs costly box kits.
Craft your own curriculum centered on your child’s spiritual and educational needs.
Real Life Is Real Learning
Projects, play, and everyday rituals are powerful tools for building critical thinking, systems reasoning, and emotional intelligence.
Homeschooling opens the door to hands-on math in the kitchen, science in nature, and social studies through storytelling.
Classroom off the clock:
Use seasonal cycles for science and ritual integration.
Weave spirituality into daily math, language, and social connection.
Encourage expression through art, writing, music, and ritual creation.
- Follow your child’s passions. Unit studies on a topic of interest are great for this as they often incorporate math, writing, history, etc.
- I can’t tell you how many low-cost or free fieldtrips we’ve participated in or arranged with other homeschool families
- See my blog post about real-life learning (coming soon).
You Can Weave Your Spiritual Path Into Learning
A significant percentage of homeschoolers (64–83%) cite religious or moral instruction as a key reason for choosing homeschooling.
This homeschooling movement is increasingly diverse, including families honoring Norse, Christian, animist, or blended spiritual paths.
There are growing secular spaces for homeshcoolers, now as pagans, we need to build the space our children need to grown and thrive.
This point is the reason why my 10 year old and I decided to start Mindful Magics, to build the lessons she sought and, for my part, to see the resources I wish had been availablo me as I started this journey.
How to integrate:
Use myth & ritual as curriculum foundations (e.g. Norse sagas, chakra traditions).
Try spiritual tracking: cycles, moon phases, rune journaling.
Root your lessons in ancestral connection, values, and magical practice.
- Learn Sedir or Hypnosis
- Check out some of our cirriculum (coming soon).
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