Homeschooling is difficult, but no pain, no gain.

Umm Khalid from MuslimSkeptic, describing her experience as a homeschooler:

Homeschooling is tiring, time-consuming, and often draining work.

But on days like these, when testing my children on Quran turns into a dynamic discussion on hadith and sirah and a recounting of historical incidents and stories of battle, it’s simply beautiful and fulfilling. My tiredness melts away as I marvel at the children’s level of understanding, their natural instinct to tie together the ayat of Quran with the sirah events they describe, and their process of information synthesis.

This reminds me of a commonly recited set of ayahs in the Qur’an that fits well in this situation for homeschooling families:

“So, surely with hardship comes ease. Surely with ˹that˺ hardship comes ˹more˺ ease.”

.فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا. إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًۭا

Surah 94: 5-6