For most families, homeschooling is the road less traveled. You might feel as though you’re blazing a trail in your family or community, and that can get lonely at times. To complicate matters, it’s common to cross paths with homeschool doubters now and again. Doubters can come in many forms: a well-meaning church member, [...]
Your hosts Holly and Melody discuss the joys and challenges of homeschooling. In this episode, how to teach all your kids at the same time, no matter what ages they are.
Like many homeschool parents, you're probably not thinking of creating a transcript for your 8th grade student. You might feel that it isn't necessary to start a transcript until your child reaches 11th or 12th grade. I get it. Thinking about the process of creating a transcript for high school is intimidating enough. But [...]
Parents and families have more educational options today than ever before. And sometimes all those choices mean your homeschool family might decide to switch schools midstream—from home education to a private school or even to public school. That’s the decision Melanie Wilson and her husband made when their 15-year-old son said he wanted to [...]
Your hosts Holly Williams Urbach and Melody Gillum discuss the joys and challenges of homeschooling your highschooler. In this episode, we discuss how to be a school administrator as well as a teacher.
Ever heard the accusation that your kids aren’t “socialized”? If you’ve homeschooled for very long, probably so. Of course, we know that most homeschool students grow into happy, well-adjusted adults. But even by virtue of its name—homeschooling—our families do tend to spend a lot of time in the home. Most homeschooling families create [...]