Homeschooling is great and if you`re here reading this, you are probably already convinced that teaching your children yourself is the way to go. However, there are a few things that some kids miss out on when learning at home which will serve them well as adults. Here are the skills that homeschoolers need to [...]
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While my homeschool experience was one that followed the traditional school year, I discovered the idea of year round school when I began researching to school my own children. The concept makes sense to me, though it may not be for everyone.
What It Is
Basically, instead of taking 2-3 months vacation in the summer, you take [...]
One of the issues that many homeschooling families face is time management. When you don`t have to actually go anywhere to go to school, it can be easy to push the time back or to school in between other activities . . . except that there is never enough time for everything.
What can you do [...]
Unfortunately, it`s all too common to find families where just one person is interested in homeschooling. In my own family, this was an issue. I knew from before I had kids that I wanted to homeschool them as I`d been homeschooled, but my husband, who was a teacher and who had never even thought about [...]
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History brings us a large number of homeschooled role models, but what people don`t realize is that there are plenty of great examples of successful home education today, as well. Whether you`re just curious about who is who in the world of homeschooling or need to prove to others that there really is a good [...]
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At one point, not so long ago, homeschooling your children was against the law. In some countries, it still is, as we`ve seen with Germany.
Now, I`ve seen a lot of families turn to homeschooling because they felt it was a good idea or their children had trouble with mainstream schooling and I`m curious . . [...]
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