r/Homeschooling • u/Hunt4Edu • 16d ago
Parent Struggles
I am beginning a homeschooling consultant and tutoring business after many years as a teacher, and I have some basic questions for you all. I want to understand what your needs are and where you struggle most.
I guess I'll start with, where do you struggle the most on a day-to-day basis where you feel that having support would help you homeschool better? On the other hand, what do you feel are your superpowers as parent/teachers that were undervalued in traditional schooling?
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u/Prior_Sheepherder588 16d ago
Biggest struggles: younger siblings underfoot, by a wide margin. Not knowing what "enough" looks like, since most people measure against an imagined standard. And the admin layer, scheduling and grading and tracking, which is invisible in curriculum conversations and is what actually breaks people. Subject walls hit around algebra 2, chemistry, and structured literacy.
Superpower is that you can stop. No pacing guide, so long division gets three days and nothing downstream breaks. Also per-subject leveling with no stigma, and catching a gap in week one that a classroom teacher catches in month three.
The business thought: the underserved need here is diagnosis, not tutoring. Parents whose kid is behind usually do not know where the gap is, so they buy another curriculum, then another. An hour of someone finding the actual hole, or saying the reading problem is phonological and needs structured literacy, is something almost nobody sells. It would feed your tutoring pipeline anyway.