Did you know that homeschooling was a growing trend? I live in an area that has decent schools, relatively speaking, and still I meet a lot of parents who are new to homeschooling or who are considering homeschooling. I believe that “the establishment” is not reporting correct numbers of homeschooling children. Part of the reason [...]

Sometimes I get so caught up in providing my daughter with a better education than she would get in the public school alternative to our homeschool, that I forget that she needs down time, too. I get caught up in the idea of what science curriculum we will use when she finishes her current one. [...]

There is a whole lot of talk about students with special needs and their access to the kinds of help that they need to learn. One school of thought says that special education teachers with years of book knowledge and teaching experience are the only ones who are capable of giving special needs students the [...]

 I’ve been asked whether it is easy or difficult to home school. My usual answer is something like, “well, that depends on what you consider hard!” In reality, the answer is dependent on where you live, how committed you are to home schooling, and probably how organized you are.    I’m fortunate. Ok, there are [...]

Are you getting ready for the new school year? It is right around the corner. While we do home school all year long, we still have a certain excitement that happens around the beginning of the traditional school year. We love going to buy school supplies, new pencils, pristine new notebooks, at great prices. Another [...]