the First 30 Days of Homeschooling: A parent's week-by-week launch to file paperwork, pick one starter stack, and not recreate school at kitchen table

A parent's week-by-week launch to file the paperwork, pick one starter stack, and not recreate school at the kitchen table.You decided this week, or this school year. One child is leaving a building. A sibling may still ride the bus. The table still has to hold lunch. This is not a curriculum, not a faith pep talk, not an unschooling manifesto, and not a kids' picture book. It is a 30-day household install for a US parent who needs the notice filed, one crate that can actually start, and a day that ends.Short paragraphs. Cards you can tape. Scripts you can say once. Composite US households, not portraits. A kitchen table is a kitchen table. Your state PDF, your umbrella packet, and the form your district actually wants win.What you actually get: - State-Notice One-Pager: find the real PDF, fill only what it asks, copy, file - Kitchen-Table Audit: hours the adults actually have, ages, noise, one surface - One-Stack 30-Day Pick: math, reading, and one more. Cheap to abandon - Day-Shape Card: Open, one work block, lunch, outside, Close. Timers beat bells - Week-One Three-Subject Cap, with scripts for "this is not public school at the table" - Two-Age Reset: occupied sibling, overlapping work, a 20-minute pause - Blow-Up Protocol: wobble versus a day that should end. No diagnosis - Folder Records: attendance tick, dated sample, receipt. Not an Instagram - One Outing Cap: library, park, or one co-op visit. One per week in month one - Week-four Keep / Swap / Pause memo. Permission to box the pretty curriculum - Closeout packet for days 31 to 60, plus a calendar and copy-ready linesThis book is not legal advice, education-law advice, or a substitute for your state homeschool statute. It is not medical advice and not special-education legal advice. It will not tell you how to write or replace an education plan. It will not rank publishers or map kindergarten through grade twelve. If a page conflicts with your state, your state wins. Always.Sit down before you open the shopping cart. Print the state page. Pick three objects. Draw five words on a card. Do not buy a classroom for a kitchen.Forthcoming tools from THE KITCHEN TABLE PRESS: a State-Notice One-Pager you can keep with the printed PDF, and a Day-Shape Card that fits on a fridge.