What I hadn't realized at the beginning of the year is that I am a classroom teacher who homeschools. What I usually hear when I tell someone I have my master's degree in education and that I homeschool is "it must be easier for you." It actually isn't. It's just different. In some ways, I think it does make it easier, but in many ways it also makes it harder. I've learned more from homeschooling my children about how children learn and how to teach than I did when I was a classroom teacher. How is it harder? Well, homeschooling isn't classroom teaching. You don't have the positive peer pressure of twenty or thirty students doing the same assignment at the same time and staying on task (hopefully). You don't have daily, studentless planning time (even a little), because your kids are always there. You have to juggle the needs of your home, friends, family, and homeschooling at the same time. There's always something...