What If Homeschooling Could Feel More Natural, Joyful, and Purposeful?
—A Gentle Introduction to Lifeschooling
Dear Homeschooling Mama,
We pour so much heart into our homeschooling. We choose the best curriculum we can find. We make schedules. We set goals. But sometimes—if we’re honest—it still feels like we’re just trying to recreate school at home.
What if there’s a better way?
What if homeschooling could feel more like living and less like checking boxes?
What if we leaned into the freedom we have—the freedom to really know our children and tailor their learning to who God created them to be?
That’s what lifeschooling is all about.
Lifeschooling is a refreshing, life-giving approach to education. It embraces real life as the classroom. It recognizes that learning isn’t limited to textbooks and lesson plans. It happens while your child helps with breakfast, builds forts, asks big questions, creates art, and tags along to serve a neighbor.
It’s about noticing what they’re drawn to… what brings them joy… what comes easily… and even what challenges them. It’s about helping them grow—not just in academics, but in character, creativity, faith, and life skills.
You still teach the basics—but you’re no longer a slave to the curriculum. Instead, you’re free to follow your child’s natural curiosity and the gentle nudges of the Holy Spirit.
If this idea stirs something in your heart, I want to share a beautiful resource with you:
Lifeschooling: Learning to Think Outside the Curriculum Box by Danielle Papageorgiou.
This book will open your eyes to a whole new way of doing homeschool. A way that honors our children’s individuality. A way that brings peace instead of pressure. A way that lets life be the lesson.
If you’ve ever wondered if there’s more to homeschooling than just bringing school home… there is. And this book will show you how.
💛 Read it.
💛 Reflect on it.
💛 Try just one idea—and see what happens.
With grace and hope,
Penney
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
