How to Homeschool
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For whatever reason, you’re considering homeschooling. Maybe you or your child aren’t ready to go headlong into the public or private school system. Or maybe you’ve been there and decided there has to be a better way. I believe there is. It’s homeschooling.
The questions are almost always the same. Is it legal and can [...]

You made the decision to homeschool your child, so you’ve been past the decision making part. But now you want to know when to start. Should you start at the same place the local school district does? Should get your curriculum and start as soon as you can while you’re still energized about it? It [...]

One decision that will help you on our journey through homeschooling is to start looking into the different learning styles. Parents teach and students learn in many ways, but learning can be grouped into a few main styles. Auditory, meaning learning best through hearing. Visual learners, who learn best through seeing, And kinesthetic learners who [...]

Have you ever learned something on accident? Maybe you were watching show to help with dinner and you ended up learning that eggs separate easier when they’re cold. Or maybe you learned that Istanbul was Constantinople through the song? That is unschooling, learning without a plan or purpose. Simply observing and participating in the world [...]

Haven’t we all experienced this before? We want our husband to be more involved in home schooling our children. But the more we push, the more we seem to push him away.
I personally can find at least one reason this happens in my house. My husband suffers from a severe case of being [...]

3.) Tell your husband when you’re teaching something he knows better than you.
I am not the best math teacher in the world. When I really started to feel in over my head I asked my husband how he thought I might teach algebra with a better response. I had my daughter sit in on [...]

Reading is one of the cornerstones to education and no less important to home schooling. Some homeschooling methods, such as Charlotte Mason, are based solely on reading quality books called living books. A well read person will more likely be well spoken and write well. So how do you encourage your homeschool to develop a [...]

I have heard parent after parent tell me that one of their greatest struggles is teaching math. Math seems to be equal to reading when it comes to parent’s greatest fear of failure is homeschooling their children. But math need not be the fear causing stressor it can sometimes be. Just take it like anything [...]

Homeschooling has long been a primarily religious movement. It is often the reason parents choose to homeschool. Public school has moved more and more in the direction of removing any discussion of religious preference. And private schools that are geared toward any one religion are often the catch all of children removed from public schools. [...]

Homeschooling is a relatively well known way to educate someone from kindergarten through 12th grade. And with society growing more familiar every day with computer technology, as well as computer technology growing at an incredible rate every day. Homeschool students can even complete a master’s degree from home if they choose. And yes, even driver’s [...]

Homeschooling is a great opportunity to teach your child. You can guide all you subjects to your child’s individualized learning style. It offers the chance to stay focused on one subject for an unlimited amount of time. Or use the structure that some children thrive in. But where do you start finding the resources you [...]