The Ten AM

Big upgrades for 2026 are headed your way. 🥠

We’re staring straight in the face of another New Year and now is the best time to ask: What if this year felt even lighter?

A friend of mine shared this meme the other day, and it feels so accurate to what I’ve been feeling lately:

The eagerness for kids to get back to school is not cringeworthy because we don’t love teaching our kids. It’s cringey because we wish more people loved spending time with their kids, feeling the electric win of every lightning bolt of knowledge, laughing through the messes made during science experiments, and embracing the beauty of slower mornings.

For homeschoolers, there is no sound more beautiful than the bell that never rings. While the rest of the world is rushing to beat the clock, we get to own the 10:00 AM hour.

That hour is the “Golden Hour” of home education. It’s the time when the coffee is still warm, the curiosity is just catching fire, and the world outside becomes our classroom. It’s a moment of victory — a victory I wish more parents felt every single day.

Because the truth is: You weren’t meant to be a manager of a home-classroom. You were meant to be the architect of a self-governed life.

A few weeks ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my boys. We were deep into our Thanksgiving unit—yarn was everywhere from the looms we were making, books were spread wide, and the “schedule” was completely forgotten. It was 10:00 AM on a Tuesday.

My phone buzzed.

“I’m struggling. I feel like I’m failing at this. Do you still love it? How do you keep the peace?”

In that moment, looking at the loom mess on my table and the panic in that text, I realized that even those of us who have already said “Yes” to homeschooling often feel like we’re drowning in the “How.” We have the heart, but we’re missing the architectural plan to make it sustainable. We’re still acting like substitutes in our own kids’ lives instead of the lead designers.

I realized it was time to move from simply jotting down my personal notes for you about the homeschool life to a bolder mission: helping us all curate our lives with our kids.

That’s why, this New Year, I’m officially renaming this newsletter to The Ten AM.

There are two parts to the name Ten AM. Part one is clear — because at 10:00 AM, the world is at work, but the self-governed family is at play and learning through every process. Part two is a litle more subtle. It’s a nod to the Tenth Amendment, which holds that the power to educate belongs to the people and their families, not a distant institution.

The secret to a better homeschool year isn’t adding more curriculum. It’s “editing” out the noise. It’s having the courage to govern your own rhythm.

To support this new direction, I have a few exciting updates for you:

1. New Brand: You’ll notice the “From” line and newsletter visuals will change from Homeschool Flow (a name I never really LOVED, if I’m honest) to The Ten AM (a name that I do LOVE and gave me my own ‘lil lightning bolt of energy when it landed in my brainstorming lap).

2. New Platform: I’m moving off of Substack and onto a platform that’ll let me deliver more to you the way you want it. As a result of that move, I will refund all current paid newsletter subscribers over the next few days. The newsletter is going 100% free for everyone!

3. THE EDIT: I am putting all my energy into a “soup to nuts” blueprint called The Edit. It’s the architectural plan for those of us who are already homeschooling but want to move from “surviving” to “orchestrating.” It’s the framework for the life you wanted when you started this. YOU. WILL. LOVE. IT!

Stay close. The pre-sale for The Edit will be coming in the first part of next year, and it’ll be the perfect guide for you to close out the school year while prepping yourself for what’s ahead.

See you in 2026 with THE TEN AM (a name that still gets me all tingly with excitement for what we stand for here),

Kimberly