If you are one of the ever-growing number of parents choosing to homeschool your children for the first time this year, please allow me to save you from a common misconception that delays families from reaping the benefits of what a homeschooling lifestyle has to offer. Perhaps you experienced what your children’s school termed “virtual learning” or “distance learning” last year, and you’re thinking of duplicating what you observed. Perhaps you’re simply recalling what your school experience was as a child, and you think you might try to recreate that in your home. Maybe you’re envisioning yourself standing in front of a blackboard at the front of a classroom dictating lessons each day while your children sit quietly in their seats until lunchtime. You could do that. After all, one of the greatest benefits of homeschooling is the freedom to make it whatever you deem best for your family and …