Homeschooling 101

Exploding the Myths about Homeschooling

Exploding the Myths about Homeschooling - Brenda Rishea Every time I meet someone who doesn’t know about home schooling, I usually get asked the same questions: “Is it legal?”, “Don’t you have to be...

Planning & Record Keeping

Planning and Record Keeping – Christine Dittmann Through more than two decades of homeschooling, we’ve used various levels of planning and record keeping in our home. There were times we were just...

Remind Me : Why am I Homeschooling ?

Remind Me : Why am I Homeschooling ?

Remind me : Why am I encouraging our family to Homeschool? In the course of our daily routine, sometimes seemingly overwhelmingly so, it can be hard to remember why we committed to homeschooling in...

Confessions of a Public School Jumper

Homeschooling five children has been a study in cat-herding. I jumped into homeschooling in 2009 with four, one of which was a literal newborn. These are the things I wish I had known at the...

God is Trustworthy

I know this both from reading the whole Bible, and from forty-four years of walking with Him. I know this from homeschooling ten children (nine of whom are now adults). My desire is that each of you...

Keep Homeschool Sanity

Like any area of life, homeschooling can quickly become a complicated monster. You can sometimes find yourself battling through the darkness in search of homeschool sanity. We’ve been in the...

Minutes Per Day

Minutes Per Day

I have used the same tired, old, hand-me-down phonics curriculum for each one of my children. Remember those old infomercials about Hooked-on-Phonics from the early 90’s? Yes, the same ones you now...

The Perfect Homeschool Mom

Who is the “perfect” homeschool mom?  Where and how does she live? Is her husband the “perfect” homeschool father who always makes the right choices?  What are her children like? ...

What the Second Generation Needs From the First

Second-generation homeschoolers have the tremendous privilege of following in the footsteps of those who paved the road before us. We have easy access to a storehouse of wisdom and...