Best New Year’s Homeschool Resolutions for 2025

It’s that time again! Time to start reflecting on the year that’s passed and start planning for the new year ahead. And that’s exactly what New Year’s resolutions are for! They don’t need to be complicated or over-ambitious—they’re simply about reassessing and refreshing, figuring out what works and what doesn’t, and creating new goals.

If you home educate, you’ve probably been doing a lot of reflecting on the things you’ve achieved throughout the year and the memories you’ve made. You may even be thinking about creating some homeschool resolutions for the New Year, but if you haven’t considered it yet, now’s your chance to start making some!

What is a Homeschool Resolution?

Just like a New Year’s resolution, where you make personal, achievable goals to reach in the upcoming year, a homeschool resolution is exactly the same but centred around home education. That means whether you homeschool, unschool, worldschool, or follow another learning style, you can create your New Year’s resolution based on any style of home education.

Your homeschool resolutions don’t have to be solely focused on ticking off learning goals; it can be about how you home educate as a family or the things you want to do more of. When we started thinking about our resolutions for home education, we realised we wanted to do more learning as a family and try out a schedule that might work better for us. 

Before you start creating some homeschool resolutions, here are some questions to ask yourself:

• What do you already enjoy about home educating?
• What have been your biggest accomplishments as a family?
• What has been the biggest change from the start of the year to the end of the year?
• What do you want to improve on?
• What do your children want to improve on or want more of?
• What challenges have you faced throughout the year?
• What has made things easier?

How to Create Your Own Homeschool Resolutions

Reflect on the past year

The first thing you want to do when creating your resolutions for home education is to reflect on what has happened during the past year. What have been your family’s challenges and successes? What could have gone better? By identifying areas that you could work on, whether they be personal or educational, you can start to set goals to improve them.

Make goals that are clear and specific

You don’t want to set goals that are ambiguous—they’re much harder to focus on and achieve. Instead, set goals that are clear and specific so you know exactly what you’re aiming for.

Your goals don’t need to be elaborate, either. They can be something as simple as ‘reading for twenty minutes as a family every day.’ The best thing to do is set goals that are easily achievable and goals that keep you committed and motivated throughout the year. 

Break down your goals into steps

If your goal is on the bigger side, like starting a year-long education project, break it down into manageable chunks that your family can achieve every month. This will make the goal seem less daunting and actually reachable. 

Take accountability

You as the parent and home educator are the driving force behind keeping your children motivated and helping them to achieve their homeschool resolutions. Make sure that you stay as motivated to achieve your goals by writing them down and ticking them off as you go. Also, tell friends and family about your homeschool resolutions to help keep you on track. 

Prepare for challenges

As we all know, achieving goals isn’t always straightforward—there is always some form of obstacle to overcome. That’s why it’s best to prepare for any challenges that you might face and think about ways you can overcome them. 

Start with smaller resolutions 

Start the year off with smaller, easy-to-achieve homeschool resolutions to get you going and help build momentum for your bigger goals. 

Be flexible and forgiving

Remember, life happens and sometimes things just don’t work out the way you’d hoped they would. If you slip up at any point, forgive yourself and try to find ways to get past it. If you can’t, remember your resolution doesn’t have to be set in stone. You can always adjust to make things easier.

If you’re still stuck on what New Year’s resolutions to make for your home educating family, here are some of the best homeschool resolutions for 2025!

Best Homeschool Resolutions for 2025

Home Education Goals

• Embrace being in a home education community and get more involved.
• Learn a new life skill every month.
• Focus on strengthening subjects of interest and doing more relatable activities and experiences.
• Start each morning with a playlist or dance party to energise everyone for the day.
• Discover a unique topic to learn about this year.
• Start a family book club.
• Manage time better with a visual schedule or timer.
• Set aside one day or afternoon where the kids can explore a topic they love. 
• Get more creative this year.
• Try learning through play more.
• Use a mixture of resources for learning, like books and technology.
• Plan an educational trip away.
• Pick a new country to learn about each month.
• Start a mini business project.
• Do a new DIY project once a month.
• Take more breaks and have time to reflect when something isn’t working.
• Set fun learning challenges to overcome.
• Encourage learning at dinner time.
• Celebrate milestones by holding a mini awards ceremony.
• Learn outside at least twice a week.
• Create themes for the week, e.g., Wildlife Week.
• Start a year-long project.
• Learn a new language together.
• Learn about and support a local cause.
• Celebrate failures at the end of the week.
• Have daily downtime. 
• Balance learning and fun by knowing what everyone needs.

For Parents

• Set aside 30 minutes of self-care a day to either relax and recharge or do a hobby.
• Regularly declutter our learning space and create a donation box.
• Have an organisation day once a week.
• Get a home education planner to start planning things in advance.
• Create a home education memory box.
• Read one book about home education a month. 
• Practise letting go and trust the process.
• Research local classes, workshops, or library events to enrich my child’s education.
• Take more photos and create a home education journal.
• Remember, progress, not perfection, is the goal.
• Dedicate Sunday afternoons to planning the week ahead.
• Make better use of free resources.

For Kids

• Teach the kids to create and follow their own checklists and let them have more autonomy.
• Encourage time for spontaneous learning every week.
• Have a fun day once a week, where the kids can decide what to do. 
• Encourage the kids to teach us a lesson about something they’re passionate about.
• Join a library reading challenge.
• Be kind to siblings and help them when they are struggling.
• Try out an online course.
• Create short and long-term goals.
• Have a ‘why day’ once a month for the kids to ask their most curious questions.
• Practise gratitude and write ‘thank you’ notes to friends and family.

Social Goals

• Attend at least one home education group or co-op a week.
• Meet up with friends and family once a week.
• Try at least one new extra-curricular activity.
• Start our own group for kids with similar interests.
• Help the kids connect with other home educated kids through having a penpal. 
• Volunteer as a family.

Family Goals

• Have a family day once a week, where we all do something fun together.
• Spend more one-on-one time together.
• Practise ‘less is more.’
• Have weekly reflections together.
• Plan a family retreat at the end of the year.
• Prepare for the future together.
• Plan our year-end goals and decide on one major accomplishment. 
• Find ways to resolve conflict by discussing things together.
• Listen to each other more and encourage everyone to express their thoughts and feelings.
• Dedicate one week to learning about a cause and supporting it together.
• Start a family garden.
• Create a family vision board to help stay motivated throughout the year.
• Meet weekly to discuss what’s going well and any challenges in our home education journey.
• Create a monthly family tradition.

What are some of your favourite homeschool resolutions? Let us know in the comments!