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How to start your homeschool legally, advice to help your children learn the best they are able, within a budget you can afford, and in a lifestyle that is comfortable for your whole homeschool family.

Start With Where You Are

Homeschooling Guide
Who does it? What is homeschooling? Why do it? What do you do all day?

Begin Homeschooling with Confidence
My first thoughts were how on earth am I going to teach my children everything they need to know? It was overwhelming - and I just didn't know where to start. By Julie Gilbert.

Deschooling
Help understanding the need for downtime, to decompress after a poor school experience before you really understand the freedom homeschooling can bring.

Gaining Confidence
As a new homeschooler, you may often wonder if you will ever feel at ease teaching your own. You will!

Getting Started Homeschooling, A Chat
A chat with a parent who was considering homeschooling her eldest daughter.

Going Our Own Way
Our family's story about how we started homeschooling.

Help Getting Started Homeschooling
All sorts of wonderful essays by others on how to get started homeschooling.

Just For the Summer
Your son or daughter didn't do too well in school this past year and you want to help them catch up. Can you homeschool just for the summer?

Where Do I Start?
Where to start looking for homeschooling advice and information.

What is Homeschooling?

Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ]
How could I possibly teach my own kids?

History of Homeschooling
How did the modern movement come about? How did compulsory education regulations cause this reaction?

What is Homeschooling?
A variety of writers answer the question from different viewpoints.

Why Homeschool?

Benefits to Moms by Homeschooling
Mothers share their reasons for deciding to homeschool.

Dads Talk
Man-to-man talk about the how's and why's of the father's role in homeschooling.

HeartMath and the Magical Child
A leading neuro-scientist has concluded that teaching to the heart is so much more effective than teaching to the brain.

Homeschool Blogs Online journals, usually the thoughts, opinions and daily life of families.

Homeschooling Is Best
Rebuttal to Tracy Pope who wrote "Classroom is Best" in the August 1997 "Bay Area Parent."

Independence Day
"Independence Day" has a double meaning for homeschoolers.

Others Talk
Journalists, doctors and others talk about homeschooling.

Pros and Cons of Homeschooling Doubts and fears, objections from others, all hold us back at times.

First Comes Mom

Care For the Primary Care Giver
Prepare to homeschool by planning to take care of the Care Giver's needs first.

Lucky You, You're Homeschooling!
Chase the mental "snakes" out of your home and think about how lucky you are.

Mom Guilt
Does your family really appreciate you and understand what you are try to do?

Motherhood - Smarter or More Anxious?
Two books came out just in time for Mother's Day 2005. One claims that motherhood makes us to be more anxious and the other claims motherhood makes us women smarter. Does one necessarily preclude the other?

Spring Cleaning Your 'tudes
Sometimes it's a matter of changing your attitude about learning.

Homeschooling Families

Cool Homes
Visit this virtual street and knock on the doors of homeschool families.

Family
Essays on what it means to be a "homeschool family."

Living Joyfully With Children
Win and Bill Sweet, "Maximize freedom and success. Minimize fear and failure."

Success Stories
You won't believe what these homeschoolers have accomplished!

Planning To Get What You Really Want

Conference Conundrum One way to learn about homeschooling is to attend a homeschool conference, convention or curriculum fair.

Curriculum To Unschooling
Shifting from off-the-shelf to creating your own, to letting your child lead the way.

Foundations for Successful Homeschooling
Ensuring success when homeschooling children of diverse ages.

Homeschool Rooms
Is it time to convert your preschooler's playroom into a space for an older child to have all their educational resources handy in one space?

New Year's Resolutions
Homeschooling doesn't meaning just "winging it" with a bunch of half hearted hopes. Improving as you go along is part of the normal growth of your family's homeschool experience - children and adults.

Planning a Custom Education
The real trick to homeschooling is, believe it or not, to forget what "they" have put in place of goals for your child.

Quickstart Curriculum
Some books to order to just help families get started in their homeschool journey. Each selection is deliberately short and inexpensive.

Records and Reports
An Excel spreadsheet from your guide and other resources to help you plan, record and report your homeschool activities. Links for other reports and planners, and organizational software.


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Recommended books to help you Homeschool
 
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: our Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child:
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
by Linda Dobson
Many of today's families are opting to teach their children at home. The first hurdle these families face is getting started.
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The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas:
500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
by Linda Dobson
Kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more for your homeschooling needs.
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The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
The Unschooling Handbook:
How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
by Mary Griffith
Unschooling is a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests.
kindle edition
 
Home Learning Year by Year
Home Learning Year by Year:
How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
by Rebecca Rupp
A structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school.
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Homeschooling for Dummies
Homeschooling for Dummies
by Jennifer Kaufeld
If, like many parents, you're wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you're looking for, then you'll be happy to know that the answer is yes.
kindle edition
 
Making the Grade: Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know
Making the Grade
Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know
by Laura B. Tyle
A combination manual and advice book for home schoolers, with guiding principles for teaching reading, writing, math, social studies, and science. Other grades on this link, too.
 
Homeschooling: Why and How
Homeschooling: Why and How
Gail Nagasako
Drawing from 22 years experience as a homeschool support group leader, counselor and the mother of a homeschooled son, Ms. Nagasako shows you can provide a robust education tailored to your child and still have lots of time to enjoy family life together.
 
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