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Homeschooling has taken a significant place in the American education fabric. We see this in the sheer volume of students who are homeschooled, as well as the high quality of [...]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with this scenario of an early morning school day: Your child begins his math text work, while you are chasing toddlers to the [...]

Many homeschoolers have become intrigued by the educational philosophy and techniques developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori a century ago. So what do you think of when you hear the [...]

One of the key skills that home schooling parents need to make sure their children master is the art of communicating, both in writing and orally. Yet according to numerous [...]

Making your own geography unit is a great way to supplement your current curriculum while adding some jazz to a subject students often find dry and forgettable. The first step [...]

It's our 2001 homeschool graduation ceremony in Pittsburgh PA, and the first student speaker of the evening is addressing the crowd of about 400 family members and friends of the [...]

Springtime is my favorite season of the year! I'm energized by the longer, warmer days as grays and browns give way to greens and pastels. Use that extra energy, sunshine, [...]

It's not uncommon to hear kids say that they would rather clean the basement or mow the lawn than write. But don't blame the kids! Adults also hate to do [...]

Want your children to learn how to: * play musical instruments * sing in a choir * participate in an orchestra? Want to do this with fellow homeschoolers? Here's how [...]

Hi! My name is Tabitha Eckert and I'm thirteen years old. I'm a missionary kid. My family and I live in Dakoro, Niger Republic, which is near the Sahara Desert. [...]

Few children have problems blending the letter sounds. They do it automatically in speech, even though they don't know that they are blending sounds together. It took a great linguistic [...]

Teaching that first child to read seems to be the goal by which all of your relatives and neighbors are judging your homeschooling. This makes the average non-professional homeschool mom [...]

Young writers need an audience other than their parents. They need their efforts published. For most homeschoolers this means posting their creations on the refrigerator door, sending copies to grandparents [...]

I must admit. I love to cry. I can't deny it. I'm a hopeless romantic--especially at Christmas. Imagine with me my family sitting around a fire on a wintry Christmas [...]

Hi! We are the Geyers--husband Jeff, wife Pam, and boys Joshua, Casey and Nathan--of Buford, Georgia (about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta). I (Pam) wrote this last year in late [...]

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We used to play the 'back to school' game with our children. Every fall, we'd head down to the local WalMart and let each of them feel like they were [...]

In the first two weeks of school you will prepare an inviting learning environment and then instruct your child in the care and use of it. This creates a three-sided [...]

Let's talk personalities for a minute. You've probably noticed each of your children has one. And if your family is anything like ours, you've probably noticed there is a wide [...]

The family is meant to be a place of grace. We were created to interact heart to heart, and mind to mind, knowing each other, caring about each other, being [...]

Teaching a child with special needs is a privilege--but it is also hard. It requires much sacrifice, patience, and unconditional love from the parents. We cannot forget to consider what [...]

It's time once again to discover which products your fellow homeschoolers have chosen as the very best. But first, let's thank those knowledgeable 239 of you who participated in this [...]

One of the questions those of us who have been homeschooling for a while get asked most frequently is: 'How can I handle a toddler while I'm trying to teach [...]

Picture this. A group of six junior-high homeschoolers are bent over my large dining room table, pencils flying on scratch paper, working away at a sample set of math problems. [...]

Many homeschoolers have trouble with the typical grade level system in schools. Maybe you can identify with some of these scenarios: 'So what grade are you in, honey?' the nice [...]

What do you do with those three months between Memorial Day and Labor Day? Even if you're on a year-round schooling schedule, summer just refuses to submit to your parental [...]

Names are funny things. Take the word 'homeschooling.' What does that make you think of? If you said, 'School at home,' I'm not surprised. Home + school seems to equal [...]

'Outside, Mommy! I want to go outside!' Both our young children are obsessed with being outdoors. I can't really blame them. They spend a lot of time inside because we [...]

Can you actually measure how persistent a child is at educational tasks? And would it help if you could? After all the initial excitement about 'Grit Education,' schools are backing [...]

June 19, 2013 The well-documented abysmal failure of government schools has prompted a homeschooling boom, as many parents have chosen to retain or regain control of their children's education instead [...]

If your family homeschools, your children already learn in the real world instead of a classroom. You don't need ah extra 'real world' curriculum. Homeschoolers can divide delicious real pizzas, [...]

When my twin daughters were in the first grade I would escort them every other Wednesday to their Brownie meetings at the new local elementary school. I would walk with [...]

I have nine children. And I homeschool. Every time I admit this, over the phone or in person, I get one of two reactions. Sometimes both! * 'That sounds really [...]

When I was teaching senior writing in a public high school, I wanted nay students to do well so much that I marked everything I could find that needed improvement [...]

Two of the daunting things about trying to develop a Montessori program in the home are the amount Of space required, and the expense of the equipment. Enter the Montessori [...]

Christi Eley's Angel Bear Yoga program includes monthly lesson plans for a children's horne yoga practice in its offerings at angelbearyoga.com. After she began homeschooling her children in 2010, Sydney [...]

Community involvement. It's something we all strive for. It s written on our hearts. Help people who need to be helped is the battle cry of all responsible citizens. As [...]