Inspiring Quotes For Homeschoolers, Virtual Learners, and Families

Check out this list of encouraging homeschooling quotes to get you through your tough days. Keep this post handy and you will always have inspiration at your fingertips!

Wether you are homeschooling, virtual learning, or just need a little pick me up on those difficult days at home, this list of quotes will inspire you and help you get through your tough moments. My hope it that this post will remind you to slow down, take a deep breath, and head outdoors for fresh air!

We are all in this together!

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What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”

-Richard Louv

Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child.

-Tom Stoppard

Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain—unless it is done with play, in which case, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions!

-Dr. Karyn Purvis

The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life.

-Vince Gowman

Play in the river, walk barefoot on the sand, dance under the moon, sleep under the stars, and you’ll likely find that very little is needed to live a happy life.

-Brooke Hampton

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

-Fred Rodgers

Our children are children for such a small season of life. Let their laughter ring out, their imaginations soar, their feet stomp in puddles, their hands clap for joy. Too soon they will grow up and out of their youthful exuberance and zest and settle into the life and routine of adulthood.

-L.R. Knost

Dear friend, don’t let the bustling culture determine the needs of your own children. You get to choose how they grow up. You can protect their time, energy, and imagination. You are the gatekeeper of the garden of their childhood.

-Ainsley Arment

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.

-Alexandra K. Trenfor

Check out that beautiful nature lantern! Check out the directions HERE and make one today.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.

-Hans Christian Andersen

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

-Angela Schwindt

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.

-Kurt Vonnegut

I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.

― Anna Quindlen

Wondering about that stunning nature crown?! You can learn about it HERE.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

-Alexander Den Heijer

Play is what children do. It is every bit as important and valuable as seat work in preparing for the future.

–Ginny Yurich from 1000 Hours Outside

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don’t be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they’re suffering from childhood.

-Ken Robinson

Mother nature doesn’t force the chid. She inspires them forward wonder by wonder to take a path & pace all their own.

–Nicolette Sowder of Wilder Child

May your day be full of magic & may you not be too busy to see it.

-Brad

Don’t question your ability to teach your child. Question putting your child into the same system that left you feeling incapable of teaching your child.

-Unknown