When should you pull your kid from public school after you've decided you're going to homeschool? Should you wait until the end of the semester? The end of the school year? Until Friday? This was the topic of discussion recently in one of my local homeschool Facebook groups. Overwhelmingly the advice was to pull [...]
Alternative ways of homeschooling may seem an odd thing to write about since homeschooling is already thought of as alternative by many people, but the best known types of homeschooling (textbook, classical, unit study, and unschooling) often don't fit people with unusual circumstances or schedules. Homeschooling has changed a lot over the years. These [...]
A working homeschool mom diary came about because I started seeing a lot more posts online asking if anyone worked and homeschooled. I've been working and homeschooling for over twenty-five years, when I was homeschooling my first five kids. At that time, I worked outside of the home. Now I have only one kid [...]
Homeschool recordkeeping is important for all of the years you homeschool, not just in the high school years. As homeschool parents, we know that it's important to keep records for our high school students so that we can create a spectacular transcript for them. But we also know that record-keeping can be a tedious and confusing [...]
Preventing homeschool parent burnout is of paramount importance if you want to homeschool successfully. Homeschooling parents are more prone to burning out due to the many hats we wear- parent, educator, partner, employer, employee, household manager, chief cook and bottle washer, and so on. We can often find ourselves stretched so thin that we [...]
Time management for working homeschool parents is essential to avoid getting overwhelmed with your many responsibilities. The landscape of homeschooling has changed a lot over the years. In the late 80s homeschool families were mainly single income families where one parent stayed home with the kids and the other parent worked fulltime. These days, [...]