Ready to Homeschool With Confidence MASSIVE SAVINGS!!!!!!

I remember sitting in front of the big chunky PC with my husband, staring together at the deregistration letter I had written to notify the school that our (then) 4-year old daughter wouldn’t be returning after the winter break because we decided to home educate

We sat for what felt like a lifetime, asking each other are we sure about this, before my husband out of nowhere slammed down his finger and pressed SEND!

It was done!

A wave of overwhelm hit me almost instantaneously mixed with the excitement

What was I supposed to do now? How do I do this? I had nothing ready or prepared!

The mammoth task of educating my child without school and taking full responsibility for that, felt all of a sudden heavy!

I was clueless and had no idea where to begin

I remember desperately trying to reach out to sisters with older children to ask my questions and get some direction from. They were often too busy with their own homeschool to give the help I craved.

One thing I know now that I didn’t know then and I want to pass onto you, is don't rush! Break down the task of learning to navigate homeschool into smaller chunks

Stop seeing all the things you *think* you have to do immediately and start giving yourself time and permission to simply “learn” about homeschool

You couldn’t jump into the deep end of a pool until you learned to swim because you’d drown. So learn to swim!

Learn what homeschool is, learn what opportunities it opens up, learn how you want it to look, and discover what your family needs from it

And then, take it one day at a time - not years at a time. Your child isn’t writing his PhD tomorrow! You have time to figure this out and enjoy the process without overwhelming yourself and your children.

You CAN Homeschool With Confidence

I have a bitter-sweet announcement to make, and if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you may have already heard. 

I've made the decision to focus on serving my Mums Unstuck parenting membership ladies and start working on some awesome brand new projects I hope to launch later this year, insha'Allah. And so with a heavy heart, I will no longer be running the Homeschool With Confidence programme live. 

Whenever something discontinues, there has to be an epic sale and so I am excited to tell you, that the Homeschool With Confidence programme is running a discontinuation sale until E'id al-Adha (2022). I've combined it with the Building The Homeschool Of Our Dreams Planner Kit as a bonus and saving you £170. You can now sign up to the pre-recorded self-paced programme with bonuses (including two live events later this year) for just £40! 

Yes, you read that right, only £40 for the complete programme and bonuses. 

ARE YOU READY TO…

➡️Eliminate the homeschool fears that hold you back

➡️Crush overwhelm that stops you from enjoying your children

➡️Say goodbye to self-doubt in your ability to educate your family without school

➡️ Avoid the setbacks of making rookie mistakes it takes most years to learn

➡️ Trust yourself, your kids and the homeschool process

Homeschool With Confidence will help you build the homeschool of your dreams insha'Allah. Not my version of an ideal homeschool or anyone else's....yours.

🎉No more sleepless nights questioning "am I doing the right thing?".

🎉No more guessing what you should be doing next!

🎉No more feeling stuck and out of control!

🎉No more social media scrolling that overwhelms!

This is THE programme to equip you to say goodbye to your fears, overwhelm and self-doubt so you CAN homeschool with confidence and spend more time doing the things that matter to you, insha'Allah!

Homeschool With Confidence is a transformative self-paced programme designed to provide you with guidance and mentorship all in the same place. Allowing you to focus on building a happy thriving homeschool you are confident, excited and passionate about bi'ithnillah.

It is perfect for mums in the early stages of homeschool, those preparing to start in the future as well as current home educators in need of a reboot and motivation boost.

Take advance of this one-of-a-kind discount and get both the course and planner kit for only £40!!!! Saving a whopping £170 off the original total! 

Come take a look at what the programme offers and purchase over on the Mums Unstuck website here and start building your dream homeschool with complete confidence in your ability to educate your family without school. 

I can't wait to meet you inside of our dedicated private community! x

Taking responsibility for your education choices....not everyone else's

 

When I started home educating I was young(-ish) and like a lot of others around me, incredibly black and white. We had made the choice to not send our children to school and anyone who did, was doing a disservice to their family. 

I look back at those early years now and consider them to be one of my biggest face-palm moments.

You CAN homeschool with confidence

 Hey sis, yes you....the one who is doubting whether you really are cut out to educate your family without school. I have a secret to share......

Confident homeschool mummas are not born....they are BUILT!

We all want to be confident we're doing the right thing. 
We want to be confident this thing called homeschool will all work out in the end.
We want to be confident we won't ruin the kids future and give them every opportunity for success!

The truth is, there is no way to know what will happen tomorrow, let alone five, ten, fifteen or even twenty years in the future. Whether we chose homeschool or school, those same concerns will still be there, it's just for some reason we seem to be a little more aware of them when we chose to home educate. 

Confidence grows with time and experience. And you only get experience by pulling up your sleeves and jumping in. 

I started homeschool when my first-born was four. At the time of writing this she is now fifteen. We have completed primary education from reception class through to year 6, and gone through secondary education from year 7 to year 10. She completed four GCSE's this year (12 months earlier than her schooled peers) with the rest to complete next summer insha'Allah. If you asked me all those years ago when I started if we would make it this far, I'd have told you no! Never in a million years did I expect I would ever homeschool, let alone make it all the way through to the end of compulsory education Alhamdulillah. Indeed all praise is due to Allah. 

I'll tell you what has got me to my 11th homeschool year through all the ups and downs; the constant questioning of whether I'm doing the right thing along with the random attacks of self-doubt. If you have been following me a while you'll already have heard this story - but it's a good one to hear again and I love telling it because the lesson it gives has served me well, Alhamdulillah...

10 Day E'id Sale up to 40% off!

I’m SUPER excited to launch A Muslim Homeschool’s first ever sale in time for Eid. For the next 10 days, you can pick up a bargain with UP TO 40% off.

Whether it’s a beneficial treat for yourself or for someone else you know who would love what's on offer, now is the time to take advantage of the epic discounts offered using discount code SALE at checkout....and this is not just for home educators! 

So what is on offer?.....

Master Planning Kit

Calling all home educating mummas! Are you ready to take charge of your homeschool adventures, crush overwhelm and carve a legacy that will be remembered by your children for a lifetime as you build the homeschool of your dreams?

Meet the crème de la crème of all printable homeschool planning kits, designed to take your beautiful homeschool vision and help transform it into a reality, insha'Allah.

Bursting with guidance, inspiration and self-coaching exercises to help you discover what your family needs so you have more time to live your best homeschool life, knowing you're in control.

This is more than just a printable planner. It is your personal coach and mentor (without the hefty price tag that comes from hiring one), guiding you through the transformation of your homeschool vision, with a 25-video series to walk you through using it.

If you're ready to take charge and have more time to do the things that matter, you'll love this...

Imagine having your own homeschool mentor and coach to help you design and manage your homeschool adventure. Imagine how it would feel to know you're in control so you can crush your fears, beat overwhelm and eliminate self-doubt so you can focus on building beautiful homeschool memories with your children. 

Instead of plodding along trying to figure it all out on your own, imagine if you were able to get the help and guidance to take back control. Would that interest you?

That's exactly what this planning kit will be for you. A MASSIVE 14-section printable planner bundle with guided video how-tos (think of it as a crash course in setting up your homeschool for success) to get the best out of your homeschool planning. It's packed with mentorship and coaching tools to prompt you to take action toward those big beautiful homeschool dreams of yours and eliminate overwhelm. 

Whether you're brand new to home education or a seasoned pro, this is made for YOU

Building The Homeschool Of Our Dreams is an epic toolkit with everything you need to build or reboot your homeschool and organise your learning, so you can take control and transform your homeschool dreams into an everyday reality, insha'Allah.

A hybrid between a planner and a coaching guide that will serve you every step of the way so you can find lasting results, insha'Allah... the only condition is you have to be ready to take action! 

Packed with the planning pages you'd expect to prepare your lessons and activities, together with guided mentorship and coaching exercises to help you reach your family's goals with intention and ease.  

With your trusted sidekick at the ready to help you get organised, boost momentum and prompt you when you're stuck, building the homeschool of your dreams couldn't be easier.

3 reasons why this planning kit is going to enhance your homeschool, insha'Allah

Reason #1
I've combined my experience as a home educator and work supporting home educating mums for more than a decade, together with my ongoing coach training in Personal Development and Education, to give you a toolkit to prepare your awesome homeschool adventures and overcome challenge, insha'Allah.

Reason #2
When I say this is the BOSS of all homeschool planners, it's because I've taken all the biggest homeschool problems I see in our community (overwhelm, burnout, struggling with a child who is behind, self-doubt, self-neglect, not enough time, an upside-down house) and put together the tools to beat them, offering the planning pages you'd expect alongside a whole lot more you wouldn't.

Reason #3
The fastest way to get results is with a mentor who has already achieved what you want to do or a coach who will help you discover the right track for you. But hiring either can be expensive. This is an opportunity to have the guidance of a mentor and several coaching sessions without the heavy price tag.

Reason #4
Unlike other planners, this planning kit not only helps you design and set up your homeschool experience and lessons, but it will also show you how to reboot when your mojo has taken a dip so you can get back in the driver's seat and enjoy the homeschool ride again.

Design, Map, Plan And Reboot Your Homeschool

With a 14 section planner bundle, each section is accompanied by how-to videos so you have everything you need to design and sustain your homeschool for success, bi'ithnillah. 

1. Homeschool Organiser
   Organise your homeschool and design your week, the easy way. Guided exercises to walk you through building a solid routine and an effortless strategy to keep your lessons consistent.
   
   
2. Our Calendar
   Map out your year with monthly overviews including both Gregorian and Hijri options. Each calendar choice is undated, so you can use this again year after year. 
   
   
3. Our Homeschool Map
   Discover your homeschool why so finding the how of homeschool will become easy. This section prepares you to write your mission/vision statement by coaching you to dig deep to pull out what you really are striving for. 
   
   
4. A Homeschool That Looks Like Us
   Find the confidence to gift your family the freedom to be your authentic selves so you can facilitate a learning path that offers value and meaning to you...not someone else. 
   
   
5. Knowing My Children
   Before you plan your homeschool lessons, you have to know who you're planning them for! This information is key as you prepare to facilitate meaningful learning opportunities to help your children grow. In this section, each of your children will be put under the microscope to discover what else you can see. I'll show you how to set effective goals and if you have a child who is behind, you'll be prompted to map out what to do next.
    
6. Priority Planner
   When overwhelm and stress creeps in because there is too much to do, the priority planner will show you how to identify what matters most to the success of your day. 
   
   
7. Lesson Planner
   A range of planning pages to chose from (you won't use them all!) to help you map out your full homeschool year, a four-week outline, a week ahead, unit studies or a new topic, prepare individual lessons, plan hadith or an ayah a week/month and a Qur'an tracker for the kids....plus, how to "Plan" if you unschool or can't get your head around planning in advance. 
   
   
8. Morning Time Planner
   Get your morning time/morning basket routine organised and prepped so you can smoothly transition from rest into the hustle of your homeschool day.
   
   
9. Organising Home
   Home is the foundation of your homeschool, so it makes sense to carve the path to successfully manage it, giving you more time to focus on the things that really matter (and I'm sure that's not keeping a bottle of bleach in your hand!)
   
   
10. Self-Care
    You are the beating heart of your family. When muma is happy, the house is happy. When muma is stressed, the whole house shakes! Looking after yourself is crucial to your ability to look after those you love. That's why you'll have a whole section dedicated just for you.
    
    
11. Monthly Reflections
    A powerful exercise to add to your homeschool toolkit that will allow you to be at the top of your homeschool game month after month, insha'Allah. 
    
    
12. A Year Of inspiration
    Your professional development as a mother and educator starts here, with a simple exercise to help you build your very own hub of wisdom.
    
    
13. My Homeschool reboot
    Not every day is going to be sunshine and rainbows. When homeschool starts to feel a little sticky and you're losing momentum, it's time for a reboot. Here you'll discover how to close the gap from where your homeschool currently is, and where you want it to be, so you can rejuvenate your homeschool passion insha'Allah. 
    
    
14. Our Ramadan Action Plan
    Discover with your children what you want to do this Ramadan with a four-part family activity, to help you map out your month; deciding whether you'll continue with homeschool or not. 

Building The Homeschool Of Your Dreams Couldn't Be Easier with supporting videos

I want to make sure you can confidently walk away and start building the homeschool of your dreams so I have created a series of videos to accompany each of the 14 sections, offering you a mini crash course to everything related to homeschool planning!

You'll view a function overview of key pages with some examples to get you started....together with a little homeschool advice sprinkled in throughout (how could I not?).

Reuse this Kit year after year without paying a penny more!

Since this is a PDF planner that you will be required to print, it means you don't have to wait for shipping time and can get started right away! 

It also means you can reprint and reuse year after year. So you buy once and can use for a lifetime! 

(please note, your purchase is for one user only. It isn't permitted to share, give or resell your planning kit with anyone else).

Bonus Video Replays 

To make sure you really do have everything you need to set up your homeschool planning for success, I've thrown in not one, but two extra class videos that will help you boost your homeschool enthusiasm and momentum, insha'Allah. 

Reigniting Homeschool Passion and Filling Your Cup were recorded earlier this year, now yours to keep so you can get an encouragement to refuel anytime you need it. 

I'm ready! How much does it cost?

The kit is valued at almost £150 but I want to make it super easy for you to benefit yourself and your family, so you're not going to pay that (unless you really want to -smiles). All you'll pay is £49!

You'll get instant access to:

1.  All 14 printable planner bundles (designed to be ink-friendly with a fun, quirky minimalist vibe)
2. The 25 video how-to series 
3. Reigniting Homeschool Passion class replay video
4. Filling Your Cup class replay video
5. Telegram members group invite 

Sign me up quick!

To sign up with instant access head over to my kit access page - once purchased, you'll be able to access the private members portal and get started right away insha'Allah. 

Please Note Terms Of Use:
When you sign up you will be prompted to agree to my terms of use.
By signing up you agree:

1. You are female and will not allow men to hear the video presentations.
2. You will not share, distribute, or resell the materials or your portal access

Find Your Homeschool Confidence

Are you looking for a beginners guide to help you start home educating or are you already deep in the homeschool trenches feeling stuck and in need of a reboot to help you fall back in love with it?

How would it feel to start building the homeschool of your dreams insha'Allah? One inspired by your own unique family; not mine or anyone else's; but yours.

I have BIG NEWS! I've reopened the doors to my signature course Homeschool With Confidence, to welcome the third cohort. And in my usual style, I like to up my game to make it even better than before with new content to add more value to your investment. 

Homeschool With Confidence is a 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟔-𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 programme, designed to provide you with detailed information, support and mentorship combined with a little gentle coaching, all in the same place. Allowing you to focus on building a happy thriving homeschool you are confident, excited and passionate about bi'ithnillah. 

10 MORE Homeschool Books You Should Read

I don't know about you, but I'm a big believer in continuing to develop my skills and understanding to help my role as both a mother and an educator. I've read many books over the years and have found them to be invaluable. Right in your hand, you're able to peek inside the brains of experts within the field of education and parenting to take benefit from them without even needing to leave the comfort of your home. 

In my last post I mentioned how important it is for us to continue our own professional development as home educators throughout our whole educating and parenting career not only at the beginning when we first jump in.

Even if you're not a homeschooler, as a parent this idea of professional development is still incredibly important so you can continue to grow as your children do.

In that post I shared ten books you should read if you're a home educator or looking to find out more about homeschool.

Reading is a resourceful way to give yourself almost like a university-level self-education on a budget, by picking out the books written by the experts in various fields.

 Today I want to share ten more that will help to develop an understanding of how children learn, and how we can reach them as parents as we mentor and coach them through their own learning journey. 

Again, like I mentioned in the earlier post, these are all secular books. So be aware of anything that is not aligned with Islamic values that might pop up.

10 Homeschool Books You Should Read

Everyone knows grandma can cook. No one beats grandma's cooking. It is hard to imagine that she has ever burned the rice or dried out the chicken. But once upon a time, she probably did. She has just been cooking for so long now she has mastered the art (and we all enjoy the results!). She has found the recipe hacks and knows all the secrets. But it wasn't always that way.

When you’re learning a new dish for the first time, it helps to have a recipe in front of you. Maybe you’ll try out several alternatives until you find the one that turns out just right.
Once you have mastered this recipe, you’ll start to tweak it and throw in new ingredients, until it transforms into your VERY OWN signature dish that no one else can out-do.

Discovering how to homeschool is like this dish you’re trying to make for the first time...
Go out there and read the recipe books on homeschool, education, and how children learn.
Use tried and tested recommendations from friends and make substitutes to please your palate.
Let those ideas and insights sink in and give yourself time to practice using them, adjusting and adapting to suit your family’s tastes.
What you’ll end up with is your own signature recipe for YOUR own perfect homeschool.

Your Homeschool Questions....Answered

Jumping into homeschool is, for most of us, a huge leap into the unknown. I know how it is....the uncertainty, the doubt, the wanting to know what you're meant to do now you're not using school.

We want to be confident this is the right decision for our family.
We want to be confident we will give our children everything they need.
We want to be confident we know what we should be doing.
We want to be confident we won't mess up our children's education.
We want to be confident that We. Are. Enough.

I look back to the time my family made the decision to home educate when my eldest was 4. I was DESPERATE for someone to answer all my questions and point me in the right direction!

The internet wasn't what it is today when I was a new homeschooling mum. I remember trying to flag down local home educators with older children and more experience to pick their brains and seek advice....but often they were too busy to give me the time I craved. Of course they were - they were with their children.

Alhamdulillah today we can often find answers to many of our uncertainties with a click of a button, and I have been passionate in helping families find their homeschool answers for a decade so you don't have to struggle the same way I and many others like me did.

Last week I hosted an all-day Q&A over on Facebook so you could ask your homeschool questions. I have to confess that by the end of it I was exhausted! There were some interesting qurries posted and I thought it would be beneficial to share some of those here to make them easy to find and reference for anyone seeking the same advice.
What I'm going to do is repost some of them in a series of posts, with an edited response to provide a little more detail than the rapid-fire answers originally given.

If you have a homeschool question, I'm pleased to announce I'm launching a monthly Q&A series here on the blog insha'Allah, so please send yours if you have one (no matter the stage of your homeschool adventure) to info@amuslimhomeschool.com.

Let's kick start this new series with our first question, asking something I think many of us wonder...

Homeschooling With Confidence

EDIT: Before you continue reading, the Homeschool With Confidence course has been relaunched. You can check out the brief overview here on the blog and find the detailed description and enrollment on the course page.

Are you looking for a beginners guide to help you start home educating or are you already in the homeschool trenches and in need of a reboot to help you fall back in love with it?

How would it feel to start building the homeschool of your dreams insha'Allah? One inspired by your own unique family; not mine or anyone else's; but yours (is this sounding too cheesy?).

Alhamdulillah following the success of the beta group who just recently completed this course, I've decided to rerun it after Ramadan and it is going to be BIGGER, better and more supportive than before insha'Allah. 

We have jumped from the original 4 week workshop and grown into a 16 week course that is designed to provide you with detailed information, support and guidance all in the same place so that you can focus on building a happy thriving homeschool you are confident, excited and passionate about bi'ithnillah. 

It is perfect for mums in the early stages of homeschool and mums preparing to start in the future as well as current home educating mums in need of a boot camp reboot and inspiration boost. I have to tell you I went through a massive homeschool reboot myself when putting this course together which makes me even more excited to share with you again second time round.

Temporary School-At-Home During The Coronavirus Outbreak

All the parents who are finding themselves thrust into a sudden school-at-homer position, my heart goes out to you. You are in a difficult position caught somewhere between school and home education.
What you are doing isn’t home educating or homeschooling. Rather what you are doing is school-at-home which is something entirely different…and something most home educators run away from and advise against because we know it brings tears, stress and overwhelm.

I’m not here to tell you what you should or shouldn’t be doing. I know many of your schools are providing you with homework assignments for your children that you’ll be expected to carry out.
But what I do want to say, is if you want to find success during this turbulent period and keep all your hair in tact, you have to let go of school expectations for your family. You have to start rethinking how you see education through the lens of your home, rather than through the lens of school.
This is a period that if you are to embrace could provide your family with no end of benefits; far beyond just the academic expectations.

Torn between school and homeschool?

I receive questions from mothers unsure whether they should choose school or home education for their growing family.

 I totally get this dilemma; it's something my husband and I faced years ago when trying to figure out what route we should take for ours.
So what is the right thing to do and how do you discover the answer right for you?

A beginners guide to starting homeschool - a 4 week online workshop

Ever since I began home educating a decade ago, I've always believed that our community could benefit from training days just as teachers receive training days in school. To continue our own "professional development" in the educating of our own children at home and all that entails. It is certainly something I have always craved for myself and absolutely see the value in.
The role of the home educator is probably one of the biggest learn on the job responsibilities that any of us will ever face - and if there is something out there that can help us get started and find our feet, then brilliant!

I am thrilled to announce the launch of our four part online workshop: Homeschooling with confidence - a beginners guide to starting homeschool. 

Registration is open I am genuinely so excited for this; I really can not wait to work with a whole bunch of you on a much deeper level that the general support and information I love offering through the Muslim Homeschoolers Facebook group and Instagram as well as here. There is so much information out there, this workshop aims to give you everything in one place - but more than that, I really want you to walk away completely confident in your ability to start building the homeschool of your dreams that meets the needs of your own family inshaAllah - not mine or anyone else's.

To find out everything you need to know about this online workshop, you can download the Homeschooling with confidence information brochure, or continue reading below (if you download the brochure and want to enrol, make sure you come back to this post and scroll down to the end to join).