Welcome to Homeschooling High Achievers!
For most of my life, I didn’t know that a person could design their own life. I didn’t discover this until I was in my 30s. I had a lot of wrong ideas about how life worked, shaped by my own experiences and the attitudes of people around me.
I was unhappy with how my life was turning out. I worked in a job that had little opportunity for advancement. I was in debt that I didn’t know how to erase. I didn’t have a loving relationship. My commute was long, my time at home was short, and I just felt stuck.
I believed that life just worked out for some people. For people like me, it was just a struggle and the best you could do was find happiness in the small things because that’s all you were ever going to get.
I discovered some “self-help” books. I didn’t understand everything I read. Some of the ideas were crazy. Some of the ideas were just crazy to me.
Eventually, I read and learned enough to realize that my former thinking was wrong. I could actually build a good life on purpose. I wish I could have found these ideas when I was still a teenager, before I had time to mess things up. I spent a good part of my life making a mess of things, and a good part of my life cleaning it up.
There is no way I’m going to let my children get to adulthood with the same faulty thinking that I had about life. Of course they’ll make mistakes, but I don’t want them to make the same mistakes I did because they didn’t have the information about how to create the life they want.
I began teaching my children these ideas while they were still young, so they would never feel as stuck and powerless as I once did.
I'm Dena Harre. I created Homeschooling High Achievers because I don’t want other families to discover these ideas decades too late, like I did.
I'm glad you're here.