After determining that homeschooling is the best way to teach your kids, you should be ready with the challenge it offers to you and your kids. Of course, you have to plan what you will do to educate them. You need to spend enough time to conduct small research about the teaching materials. Indeed, it cannot be so perfect especially if this is your first time, but you have to make sure the first day is so interesting. Usually the kids will not be interested if they have bad experience in the first day or week.
Although almost all activities are done at home and flexible, you need to create good schedule. For example, you will need to take the kids to see the doctors, go shopping or other special occasions. Automatically, this is the way you teach you kids to be discipline. The school should be the top priority and you also need to have serious commitment with the kids. Since you are the role model, it is forbidden for you to behave badly by breaking the rules you have set before. This is also about the regular bedtime schedule. The reason is healthy life can be derived from enough sleep time.
Because homeschooling system is different from other public schools, you need to explain the reasons to the kids from the beginning. This is your duty to explain that homeschooling is the same as other schools but they study at home. Perhaps at the initial steps, the kids are not attracted to the situation. This becomes your task to create a home school which looks like a school. Tell them the consequences from attending the public school in the traditional classroom. When they realize about the advantages of homeschooling, soon they will be more interested and appreciate your hard work to teach them. Commonly, this happens for the kids who have attended to public school before.
Therefore, you have to create fun and interesting atmosphere during the lesson. This is the time you will spend and enjoy with your kids. If it is possible, you can do science experiments and prepare the materials with the kids. It will be fun also to ask the kids work in the kitchen to have arts and crafts.