One of the crucial components in any homeschooler’s household is the homeschool classroom. This is the center of learning, the place where your child’s education and love of learning begins, and as such, it deserves careful planning and attention.
Choose an Area
Setting aside an area is one of the first things you will need to do [...]
Creating a Homeschool Classroom

Advantages of Homeschooling Over Public Education

Are you considering homeschooling your children? If so, you are probably trying to find out the advantages of homeschooling over public school. There are actually many advantages associated with homeschooling, but here are some of the top ones.
The flexibility of the schedule allows for homeschoolers to take advantage of many opportunities that are otherwise closed [...]
How to Socialize Your Homeschooled Children

It’s the first question your mother asks when you tell her that you’re homeschooling the children, and the first thing the alarmed grandmother who asks why your children aren’t in school and hears that they are homeschooled will say to you. “What about socialization?” you hear, and have to resist groaning.
The idea is an integral [...]
How to Find “Me” Time When Homeschooling

One of the major challenges of homeschooling isn’t actually teaching your children, figuring out the legal implications, or structuring a school day. It’s simply finding some “me” time, or downtime from homeschooling. The importance of “me” time is clear: a burned-out parent is not a good teacher!
One Parent Homeschools
When one parent homeschools, it’s easier to [...]
Four Reasons to Homeschool Your Children

It started as an obscure and unusual phenomenon, and has since grown to become a veritable trend. Homeschooling is reaching the stage of acceptance where you won’t have to answer many questions from the public about what it is, but many people still aren’t sure why you would do it. After all, they reason that [...]
Is Homeschooling Right for You?

Perhaps you have just learned about homeschooling, or perhaps you’re in the process of researching it to see if you like the sound of it. You have probably already determined that homeschooling is not right for every family, as some families simply can’t manage to pull it off, while others do spectacularly and raise well-adjusted, [...]
Choosing a Homeschooling Curriculum

If you’ve decided that your children will learn at home, congratulations! You’ve taken the first step to giving your children a great education that will help them for the rest of their lives. Now, you have to decide just what they’re going to learn at home.
All-in-One Curricula
There are some homeschool curricula that come as complete [...]
Motivating Your Homeschooled Student

Every parent knows that getting their children to do something they don’t want to is a difficult chore. When you’re a homeschooling parent, this can be even harder! You end up playing the roles of parent, teacher, and principal all in one, and your child can’t appeal to any higher authority if he feels you’re [...]
Surviving Your First Homeschool Year

Maybe you’re considering making the big move and actually pulling your children out of public school to homeschool them, or starting them at home rather than enrolling them in public school this September. The prospect of facing your first year of homeschooling can be daunting, but here are some tips to help you survive your [...]
Creating Homeschool Lesson Plans

One of the biggest advantages and disadvantages of public school is the fact that lessons are pre-structured. You never have to worry about there being no plan for what your child should learn next. Yet this is also limiting, as you have very little control over what your child learns, and if there is material [...]