There’s a moment Meghan still talks about from one of her first dates with Jacob.
They were in that early stage of dating where you’re still figuring each other out — what you have in common, what makes the other person light up. Sports came up. Jacob was a sports guy. And Meghan, who hadn’t played on a single school team in her life, held her own completely.
She knew the terminology. She understood the culture. She could talk about the game with the kind of easy familiarity that only comes from actually growing up around it.
Jacob noticed.
What he didn’t know yet was that Meghan had never sat through a single PE class.
Growing up homeschooled looked different than most people assume
Meghan was one of five kids. Her mom was the kind of woman who didn’t just homeschool — she thought carefully about what her kids were missing by not being in a traditional school, and then she went and found a way to give it to them anyway.
Physical education was one of those things.
She didn’t have a curriculum. She didn’t have a coach or a gym or a budget for equipment. What she had was five kids with energy to burn, a backyard, and a clear belief that movement wasn’t optional — it was part of raising a whole person.
So she got them outside. Constantly. Not just to run around, but to actually learn. They played sports. They learned the rules. They learned how to compete and how to lose and how to come back the next day and try again. They picked up the language of sports the same way kids pick up any language — by being around it, by doing it, by having someone invested in making sure they understood it.
None of it felt like school. That was kind of the point.
What that actually gave Meghan
By the time Meghan was an adult, she had something that’s hard to manufacture: genuine physical confidence. Not the kind that comes from being an athlete, but the kind that comes from never having been kept away from sports. She could move through the world — social situations, first dates, casual pickup games — without feeling like she’d missed something everyone else had learned.
Her mom had quietly given her that.
And when Meghan and Jacob started talking seriously about what they wanted for their own family, and eventually about what they wished existed for homeschool families more broadly, that memory kept coming back up.
Most homeschool parents are doing what they can. But physical education — real physical education, the kind that builds actual skills and confidence and a genuine relationship with movement — is one of the hardest things to pull off without structure and support.
Meghan’s mom had figured it out. But she’d had to build it from scratch, without any help.
What if families didn’t have to do that?
That question is where Home Field Advantage Co. came from
The name isn’t accidental. A home field advantage is what you get when your environment is set up to help you win. Meghan’s mom had created that for her kids without ever calling it that — a home where movement was normal, where sports were part of the culture, where kids grew up knowing how to hold their own.
Home Field Advantage Co. exists to give that same thing to homeschool families who want it but don’t know where to start.
The program is built around a simple idea: parents shouldn’t have to spend hours each week researching, planning, and sourcing materials just to give their kids a solid physical education. The curriculum does the thinking. The equipment box handles the logistics. The lessons are clear enough that a parent with zero sports background can run them confidently.
Three lessons a week. Real skills. No scrambling.
It’s not magic. It’s just what happens when someone who grew up experiencing the difference builds something designed to make that difference accessible.
What a homeschool PE curriculum actually needs to do
Here’s the thing most homeschool physical activity plans get wrong: they treat PE like it’s just exercise. Get the kids moving, burn some energy, check the box.
But physical education — real physical education — is about more than that. It’s about building coordination and spatial awareness. It’s about learning how to work within rules, how to compete with sportsmanship, how to push through something hard and feel the satisfaction of getting better at it. It’s about developing a relationship with your body that will serve a kid for the rest of their life.
That’s what Meghan’s mom was actually doing out in the backyard. She just didn’t have a name for it.
A homeschool PE curriculum worth using should do the same thing. It should be structured enough to actually teach something, flexible enough to work in a real home with real kids, and clear enough that a parent doesn’t need a coaching degree to run it.
That’s what we built. And it started with one woman who decided her five homeschooled kids deserved to grow up knowing how to hold their own.
Try it free for one week
If you’re a homeschool parent looking for a physical education plan that actually works — one that gives your kids real skills without adding hours of prep to your week — we’d love for you to try Home Field Advantage Co.
Your first week is free. No commitment, no pressure. Just log in, follow the plan, and see what your kids can do.