Homeschooling
What is Homeschooling?
Homeschooling is a great way to tailor learning to your individual child's needs and abilities. It can also be a great way to spend more time as a family and instill your family's values in your child's education. There are many resources available to homeschooling families, so it is important to do your research to find the method of homeschooling that will work best for you and your child.
However, homeschooling can also be challenging, as parents must be dedicated to teaching and often need to be creative in their methods.
How to Learn Homeschooling
Homeschooling well starts with learning the landscape before buying a single curriculum. First, understand your state or country's legal requirements — they vary widely. Then explore the major philosophies (classical, Charlotte Mason, unschooling, traditional/school-at-home, and eclectic blends) so you can choose intentionally rather than defaulting to whatever you first encounter.
Resist over-scheduling and over-buying at the start; new homeschoolers commonly do too much. Begin with the core subjects and a light routine, watch how your child actually learns, and adjust. Connect with other homeschoolers — local groups and online communities — for support, socialization, and hard-won practical advice. Give yourself and your kids a transition period, especially when leaving traditional school, and remember the flexibility to tailor education to your child is the whole advantage.
Homeschooling Resources
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)
The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to ?understand?, to be well-rounde...
Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
Discover the Rewards of Homeschooling Your Young Child Young children are full of curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder. They're willing to try new things and possess a natural joy of discovery. Yet in a traditional school, these natur...
Blueprint Homeschooling: How to Plan a Year of Home Education That Fits the Reality of Your Life
Before you build a house, you need plans. You need a BLUEPRINT. Blueprint Homeschooling is for home educating parents of all philosophies and styles who are looking for a better way to manage their time, energy, and sanity throughout the school year....
Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series
This edition of Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series is out of print. It has been our pleasure these past 25 years to make Charlotte Mason's writings available to a new generation of readers. The Publishers. This is the complet...
Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners
Project-based homeschooling combines children's interests with long-term, deep, complex learning. This is an essential experience for children: to spend time working on something that matters to them, with the support of a dedicated mentor. Thi...
So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition: Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It
Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many parents assume it could never work for them. Now an updated edition of So You're Thinking About Home Schooling by Lisa Whelchel—herself a homeschooling mother of three—introduc...
Managers of Their Homes: A Practical Guide to Daily Scheduling for Christian Homeschool Families
Completely revised and direct from Titus2! What resource could be better than Managers of Their Homes to bring families peace and order? The answer is the newly revised Managers of Their Homes!! Managers of Their Homes has been thousands of moms̵...
A Charlotte Mason Education: A Home Schooling How-To Manual
The immensely popular ideas of Charlotte Mason have inspired educators for many decades. Her unique methodology as written about in her six-volume series established the necessary protocols for an education above and beyond that which can be found in...
Don't Waste Your Time Homeschooling: 72 Things I Wish I'd Known
Make the most of your homeschooling efforts by employing some practical pointers from a veteran homeschool mom! With the empty nest looming, author Traci Matt takes a look back at two decades of successes and regrets and offers field-tested ideas to...
My Kitchen, My Classroom: An Introduction to Homeschool
Are you thinking of homeschooling your child? Do you have doubts and concerns? This book addresses many of the questions parents may have as they consider the educational option of homeschooling. Learn how to dispel any doubts you may have. Gather i...
Homeschooling More Than One Child: A Practical Guide for Families
Here's a book that addresses the special challenges of homeschooling two or more children for parents just starting to homeschool and veterans desiring fresh ideas. From extensive research and personal experience, author Carren W. Joye provides...
Plan To Be Flexible: Designing A Homeschool Rhythm and Curriculum Plan That Works for Your Family
Overwhelmed by the challenge of homeschooling in the real world? Are rewarding school days possible in the midst of errands, laundry piles and extracurricular activities? Absolutely! Let Plan To Be Flexible show you how. Born out of one mom's...