Developing Your Lesson Plans

As a homeschooling parent you are acutely aware of how important it is to have daily plans and be organized. Everyone has their own methods and tactics. And most of these plans certainly weren’t perfect right out of the gate and have evolved over time.

Designing Your Homeschool Curriculum? Include Latin!

When choosing your homeschool curriculum courses, be sure to include study of Latin. It benefits the youngster now and in the future in a wide variety of--and in far-reaching--ways.

Home School Options for High School Students

There are home schooling curriculum for high school students that are available for parents to check out in case they want to put their kids through the program. Contrary to popular opinion, home schooling is not merely limited to primary and lower grade class students. In fact, there are even home courses available for upcoming college students. Whatever age your child is, there are several home schooling resources available that will be able to fill up your needs.

Simple Homeschool Success Tips

There certainly is an abundance of homeschooling information available and this is a good thing… for the most part - as long as you don’t get bogged down in overload and suffer paralysis by analysis. There are a lot of wonderful articles and tips to help you insure your homeschool success.

Educating About Discrimination

It seems that we have graduated a little from the old method of discriminating between colors and entered the age of looks and ethnicity. Clearing the slate clean, let me say that I'm not innocent of making my own assumptions about the looks of another person. Society today has done an outstanding job of showing the common citizen that beauty is the one thing that does rely on the eye of the beholder. With the wide spectrum of reality shows on plastic surgery, we as a society have put good looks on a pedestal much higher than can be reached. A good point is when the article mentions movies portraying the ugly villain and the handsome good guy.

Considering Homeschooling: Reasons Why Not to Put Your Child in Preschool

Are you considering homeschooling? Preschool promotes inconsistent discipline, preschool undermines the child-parent bond, preschool undermines sibling bonding, preschool undermines a mother's intention to homeschool, preschool exposes children to destructive peer influences, preschool teaches a child a perverted form of justice, and preschools may inaccurately diagnose a child.

Organizing Your Home School

Are you tired of losing your keys and not finding the papers, books, etc. that you need? Are you living underneath a cloud of chaos? If you are a home school parent this can be doubly troublesome.

Preparing Yourself for Home Schooling

Home schooling has proven itself to be a very good method of teaching children their ABC's. The home provides a very good environment for children to learn. More children feel more adjusted and more comfortable being educated at the home. And with home education, it is more the responsibility of the parents to teach their children. And because of the time spend with each other, this approach has made parents and their kids become closer with each other.

Secondary School: Parents Need Assistance

Education system of many European countries is divided into primary and secondary schools. Such division seems to be successful and flexible approach to diverse education programmes needed for teaching children of different ages. Thus, teaching in primary school significantly differs from teaching in secondary school, and this may cause numerous problems for children transiting from primary to secondary school and their parents as well.

More Ideas to Motivate Reluctant Writers

After homeschooling for more than five years, I have additional ideas to share about teaching writing, as a follow-up to my recent article TEACHING WRITING TO A RELUCTANT WRITER. While these ideas will benefit all homeschooling families, they are of special interest to those families whose children dislike writing and resist the types of writing assignments found in most textbooks.

Home Schooling in California

In California, it is a compulsory for all children to acquire public or private schooling and be given the right education. Under the educational codes of California, methods of exemptions to the mandatory school attendance have alternative learning options as follows ...

Tips on Choosing a Homeschool Curriculum

Here are some tips to help narrow down your choices and guide you to the best curriculum for your child.

Homeschooling (Home Education) And Teens: How To Survive!

The teenage years can be quite a challenge, however you decide to educate your child. If your child has been home educated for at least a few years before reaching adolescence, then they will probably be accustomed to the lifestyle. If you are lucky, your teenager will also have learnt how to educate themselves with support from you and others and will be reasonably self-motivated and confident in their abilities. But what if that doesn't happen or if, for whatever reason, you decide to withdraw your child from school once they reach their teenage years? Many parents who approach me when they are in this situation feel they are in crisis and that there are many obstacles to their ensuring a suitable education for their child. This article identifies some of those challenges and explores how to move from crisis to opportunity.

Christian Home Schooling

There are many different reasons you could choose to home school your children. Some choose it because of lifestyle. Others because of medical problems. Christian home schooling presents yet another option. Christian home schooling has increased in popularity, because this gives parents a way to monitor what their children are learning and to instill Christian values in them.

How Do You Manage Homeschooling Costs?

Home schooling can be less expensive than sending your child to an educational institution. While a home school education is less costly than a private school, it can be more expensive than a public school if you are not careful.