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Perhaps you’re one of those talented few who excelled at every academic subject in school. Calculus? No problem. Honors physics? Piece of cake. But, if you’re like most homeschooling parents, sooner or later, you’re going to run into a subject ...

When you started homeschooling, perhaps you imagined your children happily working together—reading, cooking, gardening and learning. In your mind’s eye, your children would relish the opportunity to spend more time together and your family would become a model of closeness. ...

Perhaps you’re dissatisfied with your child’s public school experience or your child has special needs or an illness that makes regular school attendance challenging. If you’re considering homeschooling, you’re not alone. Over 2 million children are homeschooled in the U.S., ...

If you’re new to homeschooling, one of the first questions you probably have is, “What are the laws regarding homeschooling?”  The federal government regulates many areas of life, so you might expect interference here. Fortunately, you won’t find any. The ...

Pick a stereotype: political renegade, religious extremist, social hermit, or misfit. You’ve probably heard all of these names unfairly applied to homeschoolers at some point. Homeschooling families have long known these stereotypes have little to do with reality, but inaccurate ...

Project-based learning is a big buzzword in education right now, but the theories behind it are nothing new. Aristotle was one of the earliest advocates of learning through doing. Socrates wrote about learning through questioning, inquiry, and and critical thinking. ...

In a perfect world, every child would discover the joy of reading early on. Children would learn to read as easily as they learned to walk. Some children do seem to have an innate ability to decode language and words, ...

As a homeschooling family, you probably have many goals for the education of your children. You may want them to learn and accept your values, become academically prepared for college, learn valuable life skills, and become all-around good people. If ...

If you are beginning homeschooling and have a toddler in the house, you might have begun to think about preschooling and what that curriculum should look like. For those of us who have never worked in a preschool, it may ...

Have you just started homeschooling your children? Are you just beginning to think of pulling them out of traditional school? If so, it’s time to untangle some of the specialized educational jargon associated with schooling at home. Words and phrases ...