Many families begin homeschooling their children after Christmas break. For whatever reason, January is almost as popular for starting to homeschool as September. This is probably because parents have decided that whatever the trials and tribulations of their child’s existence in public school, they just can’t take the drama of public schooling anymore. So they [...]

  Happy New Year! Do you have resolutions? Every year I make this list of things I want to accomplish. I don’t think about it again until about July, and then the week of Christmas I get weirded-out because I haven’t accomplished the things on my New Year’s resolutions. One thing I really need to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]