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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: How much time is really enough for homeschooling?[/quote]

As a homeschooling parent, I think it is hard to put a time amount, because I think the lines between what is "school" and what is "family life" are pretty blurry, especially now that we're home.   There are things that my kids did as extracurriculars when they went to school (instrument lessons, ballet class, sports) that they now do at home during school hours.  There are also things that we did before homeschooling, like reading aloud, or helping a parent cook, or building lego robots, that we do more now because we have more time.  And there are things that my kids might have been assigned to do at school, like reading novels, or creating art, or playing basketball, that they choose to do so I don't assign them.

Having said all that, during the hours that my kids used to go to school or after care, my 8 year year old typically does the following things that I assign each day

60 minutes of math every week day

30 minutes of writing every week day (spelling, handwriting, grammar/mechanics, composition)

60 minutes of listening to history and literature read aloud, some of it during lunch.

(Her siblings who don't choose to read for fun, the way she does, also have reading assigned here)

30 minutes of piano practice

She also has some kind of outside class (virtual right now) every week day.  She takes 1 piano lesson, 2 ballet classes and 2 Spanish lessons each week.  (Her siblings take different classes, depending on their interests)

And some but not all days an adult plans something fun like an art project or a cooking project.

On Saturdays she spends a few hours with her siblings doing science with Dad.

The rest of the day is hers to structure. I don't allow screens until after dinner, unless it's something educational (e.g. one of her siblings likes an app that teaches coding), but she has lots of choices.  She chooses to read a lot, to write little stories, to create art, and to play pretend.  Her siblings make other choices.  Some of what they choose seems more like school, such as reading or coding, and some of it seems less like school like chasing each other with nerf guns or decorating the driveway with sidewalk chalk.  [/quote]

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