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Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
by Linda Dobson
The formative years are the most critical to a child's education. They lay the foundation for developing learning skills that last a lifetime.
 
The Teenage Liberation Handbook
The Teenage Liberation Handbook
How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
by Llewellyn, Grace
Written primarily for teens who need to convince their parents they can teach themselves. 1998 Paperback
 
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, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States.

Dallas-Fort Worth Area Support Groups

Please note: I do not live in Texas, and am doing the best I can to place support groups in appropriate geographical regions or near the nearest large city. If you feel I have erred greatly, please use the contact link at the bottom of this page to correct any errors. Here's a map of Texas that I'm using.

Arlington

Arlington Association of Home Educators
A.A.H.E. has grown to well over 200 families from Arlington and the surrounding areas of Fort Worth, Mansfield, Kennedale, Burleson, Grand Prairie, Irving, and HEB.

Collin County

Collin County Homeschoolers Sharing Adventures in Learning
SAIL is a member-governed, inclusive community of homeschooling families in the Collin County, Texas area (McKinney, Plano, Allen). We encourage and respectfully support a membership diverse in homeschool style, race, religion, life philosophy, political views, and family composition and situation.

Collin County Homeschool Playgroup
This is a playgroup for homeschoolers in the northern suburbs of Dallas. We offer weekly park days, a Mother's Night Out, member-organized field trips, and online support on topics including homeschooling, parenting, and life in general.

McKinney Area Christian Homeschoolers
MARCH is a cooperative fellowship of families who homeschool one or more of their children.

Richardson Home School Association
RHSA is a Christain support group with members residing in the Richardson, Texas area (including Plano, Garland, Dallas and Mesquite), who have decided to school their children at home.

Plano Area Texas Homeschoolers
PATH is a Christian based homeschool co-op, located in Plano, Texas; providing education and learning for it's member's children.

Plano Educational Association of Christian Homeschoolers
PEACH is a volunteer, non-profit organization committed to serving homeschoolers in Plano and the surrounding North Texas communities.

Plano Family Unschoolers Network
Welcome unschoolers, unschool-leaning, and unschool-curious in the Plano/DFW, Texas area. We're open to all religious persuasions and those with none.

Dallas

Christian Family Home Education Association of Dallas
Our usual meeting place is Saturn Road Church of Christ at the corner of Saturn Road and Kingsley in Garland.

Dallas Muslim Homeschoolers Association
Group for interested and committed parents to share experiences and make recommendations regarding curriuculum, website links, activities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, sports and everything and anything pertinent to the homeschooling experience.

DFW Blackboard
Focuses on enhancing the un/homeschool experience for children of African descent by accomplishing four goals.

DFW Homeschool Café NEW
We are a new support group for minority homeschool families. You do not have to be from the DFW area to join. We welcome all who either homeschool, support homeschooling, or those who homeschool and work from home or own their own business. Plays loud music. Turn off at very end of page.

Homeschoolers East
Provides homeschool families of diverse backgrounds living east of I-75 in Dallas, Texas with educational opportunities that develop the individual's academic and spiritual potential, family partnership and unity.

Homeschoolers Hearts & Hugs
We are a homeschool community volunteer program whose goals are to provide homeschooling students with character building and learning opportunities while enriching the lives of others and increasing public awareness of the advantages of home education.

Southwest Dallas Home School Association
We at SWDHSA operate under Christian principles and hope to minister to families living in Dallas County and parts of Ellis County with support and encouragement.

Whole Alternative Kommunity Education
Our home base is the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff. A natural, family-led home/unschool group that accepts, encourages, embraces, and celebrates the educational choices, religious beliefs, cultural diversity, and family structure of all it's members.

Fort Worth

Catholics Teaching at Home (CATH)
For Tarrant County area Catholic home educators.
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Cityview Academy
A two-day-a-week program for home-educated children kindergarten through sixth grade. We provide a curriculum that incorporates the development of Godly character with academic learning. 4800 Merida, Ft. Worth, TX.

Messianic Homeschoolers of D/FW
We meet once a month in Ft Worth [ONLY in Ft Worth. Never in Dallas], as many of our members are in the outlying areas of Ft Worth such as Parker County, Johnson County, etc. West and S/W of Ft Worth. (Dallas-ites are welcome, but our main focus is Ft Worth and west of there.)

Northeast Tarrant County Association of Christian Homeschool Educators
We are an organization of Christian home school families who are bound together by a common belief that the responsibility for the education of children belongs to the parents.

Tarrant Home Education Association
A nonprofit, volunteer support group for home educators in Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and surrounding areas.

Westside Association of Christian Home Educators
WACHE is a Christian Homeschool Support Group, located on the West Side of Fort Worth. Our membership runs from North Richland Hills to Burleson and Weatherford to Arlington, but most of our activities are centered around the west side of Fort Worth.

Greater DFW Area

Denton County Homeschool Association
A Christian, non-profit, voluntary association of parents and others who have an interest in home education. The primary purpose of DCHSA is the support of those engaged in the home schooling of their children.

DFW School Free Education Zone
Many of our members are unschoolers from Flower Mound, Lewisville, Grapevine, Colleyville, Carrollton, Southlake and surrounding areas.

Ellis County Christian Homeschool Organization
Supporting Christian homeschool families with fellowship, field trips, activities, etc. near Waxahachie Tx.

Home Education Associational Resources
Multi-denominational Christian support group in Rockwall County.

Homeschool Teens in North Texas
A local area group for parents of teens or tweens living in the north Texas area. Our families come from Denton, Wise, Tarrant, and other North Texas areas.

Homeschoolers East
Provides homeschool families of diverse backgrounds living east of Dallas proper with educational opportunities that develop the individual's academic and spiritual potential, family partnership and unity.

IrvingHOMEschoolers
We are an all inclusive home school group based in Irving, Tx. We welcome all home schooling families regardless of sex, age, religion or home school program philosophy.

Johnson County Christian Educators
We are a Texas Christian support group providing fellowship, activties, and classes for homeschooling families in the areas of Johnson County, Hill County, southern Tarrant County, and parts of Ellis County.

Mansfield Homeschool Enrichment Program 
All homeschooling families around the area are invited to participate. MH Enrichment Program is intended to enhance your homeschool experience; not to replace it.  

Mesquite Christian Home School Association
We provide a wide variety of activities and field trips for the children and a forum for parents to discuss the challenges and rewards of home schooling and an opportunity to get help in subjects where they may need it.

Morning Star Village
We are a Waldorf-based Homeschool Cooperative offering weekly gatherings with music, movement, stories, foreign language, drama, and art. We also celebrate seasonal festivals and have enrichment activities for mothers. We are based in Fort Worth, but we have members from all corners of the DFW metroplex.

North Texas Home Educators Network
All regional events, timely information, calendar of group meetings, and regular newsletters for home educators.

North Texas Natural Learners
NTNL is an inclusive, secular support and activity group for unschoolers and other homeschoolers. Our base is Denton, though our membership extends to all of north Texas.

Parker County Christian Home Educators
An organization that exists to help home school families share information and support one another. Depending on the number of member children of a given age each year, we form athletic clubs and have organized activities. We have senior class graduation each year.

Red Oak Home Schoolers of TX NEW
A secular yahoogroup designed to serve as a free bulletin board of homeschool information in the Red Oak/ Ellis County, Texas area. You'll find many of our members involved with local co-ops, 4-H, and volunteer activities.

Westside Association Of Christian Home Educators
WACHE has a confession of faith to which all prospective members must agree to and sign.

Drivers Ed
Virtual Drive of Texas was designed with the teenager and the busy parent in mind and fulfills the State of Texas requirements for 32 hours of in-class driver education training and 14 hours of in car training.
Drivers Ed - Texas - Safe Driving
 
Recommended books to help you explore homeschooling
 
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.
 
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
As a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs.
 
Homeschooling : The Teen Years
Homeschooling : The Teen Years
Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- To 18-Year Old

by Cafi Cohen
This book reveals the adventure and rewards as well as the special challenges of working with this age group.
 
Homeschool Your Child For Free
Homeschool Your Child for Free
More Than 1,400 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond

by LauraMaery Gold and Joan M. Zielinski
The best sites for everything from reading-readiness activities for preschoolers to science projects for teens.
 
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start

by Linda Dobson
With the constant concern about the safety and quality of our nation's schools, many of today's families are opting to teach their children at home. The first hurdle these families face is getting started.
 
The Complete Home Learning Source Book
The Complete Home Learning Source Book : The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology
by Rebecca Rupp
This ambitious reference guide lives up to its name. Practically three inches thick--and we're not talking large print here--it's packed with titles, ordering information, and Web site addresses.
 
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling
by Marsha Ransom
A step-by-step manual written for the new and inexperienced homeschooler. The explanations, resources, and recommendations apply to families homeschooling for a wide variety of reasons and to families who "afterschool" their children.

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