When homeschooling your child, the more educated YOU are, the better chance your child will have for success.  Please feel free to read all the articles we have provided.  Below is a complete list of all the homeschooling articles we have on this site, along with a short description of each.

Homeschooling Is A Superior Education For Your Child Home-schooling provides children with a superior education. Parents can quickly teach most kids the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic using excellent, creative, learn-to-read, or learn-math books, programs, or computer learning software. Homeschooling is an Old but New Solution Have you ever had a day arrive when your child comes home worn out, agitated and frustrated and thought to yourself "I'd love to keep my child home and teach him myself - if only I had the time." Taking Your Child Out of Public School Home-schooling removes children from public school. That alone makes home-schooling worthwhile. Unlike public-school children, home-schooled kids are not prisoners of a system that can wreck their self-esteem, ability to read, and love of learning. Is Homeschooling Right For My Family Deciding to homeschool your child may be one of the most important decisions you ever make as a parent, and it will take a lot of thought and soul searching. To the newcomer, it may seem impossible, overwhelming and very, very lonely. But like most huge obstacles, once it's broken down into smaller pieces, it becomes manageable. Facing the Homeschool Super Mom I know this Mom. She homeschools her 5 children, plus she tutors several other children that are dropped off at her house. AND she's a Pastor's wife. AND she's working on fixing up the fixer-upper they just moved into. Whenever I've been in her house, it's been immaculate. Her children all have perfect manners. They all seem to be way ahead of their grade level. She's definitely gotta be a Homeschool Super Mom. Developing Your Homeschool Child's Social Skills Everyone needs friends, and, as parents, you and I both know we’re responsible for our children’s social lives as well as our own. As homeschoolers, we also know that kids don’t need public school pressure in order to find friends . . . Let’s explore the top two ways to find life long friends for our children . . . and ourselves! Homeschool Schedule As with your home school lesson planning, your scheduling should take into careful consideration your child’s learning style and determine what will work best. Finding The Right Homeschool Program For those just starting out, determining the best homeschool program can be, at the very least, a bit challenging. Probably the single most relevant point on this would be to keep in mind that the eventual best home education program for your situation and style may involve pulling home school resources from more than one home school curriculum. Homeschool Classroom Setting If at all possible, the homeschool education classroom setting should be a specific room, or at least an area of the home. How Many Homeschool Activities At first we panic when we begin trying to come up with enough homeschool activities to fill our lesson plan. We research, we seek, we find, we accumulate... and finally we overload our calendar. Do you sometimes look at your homeschool calendar and long for date that is not completely filled? Homeschooling For Busy Parents If you’re a single parent or a married couple on a tight budget so that both parents have to work, you may worry about finding the time and energy to homeschool your children, but it can be done. It comes down to planning and scheduling your time Homeschooling By Grandparents Grandparents, what better way to stay close to your grown children than to advise them about important issues like the dangers of public schools for your grandchildren? What better way to feel younger if you offer to help homeschool your grandchildren? Homeschool Basic Benefits Why should or would I homeschool? A big decision for you and should not be taken lightly. However, with some basic preparation, it isn’t as mind boggling as you might think. Gathering Your Homeschool Materials One of the often overlooked area of planning and discussion when preparing to begin your homeschooling venture is how are you going to supply and fund your homeschool materials, and where are you going to locate your homeschool supplies, and how will you keep it organized? Teaching Children vs Child Learning One of the great benefits to homeschooling is the flexibility that you have as a parent. Each family can literally choose the homeschool curriculum or educational experience that best suits their own family values, philosophy, and schedule. Then this approach can be adjusted as the family’s needs may change. Which Home Teaching Method Is For You As a homeschooling parent you will be able to pick from one or any combination of home teaching resources that best fit your philosophical or religious beliefs. Much of the success of your teaching endeavor will depend upon integrating your teaching method with your child’s learning style. Hence the question, after you have committed to homeschool teaching …. How do you teach your children? Testing Your Child At Home By definition, testing would indicate that the reason that we test is to determine the students level of understanding of the given material that has been presented over a specified period of time in the classroom. Homeschool testing is quite different though. Teaching What You Don't Know With out any doubt the best way for any child to learn is with undivided one on one instruction. This definition alone points directly to the child’s parents. Who better to provide such an environment than the ultimate someone who loves and cares for the child and how they learn? Preschool Activity Ideas The top of the list when it comes to preschool activities and child learning would be reading. Getting the child involved early in learning to read, establishes good reading habits and a foundation that the child can learn from for a lifetime. Learning About Child Learning In the beginning the best way to learn about how your child learns is to observe everything they do in their daily activities. Take notes, written or mental on how the child learns and approaches new learning situations Parents Complaints About Arrogant Public Schools School authorities continually claim that they want more parent cooperation and participation in their children’s education. They complain when parents don’t show up for parent-teacher conferences or push their children to do their homework Public Schools Can Waste 12 Years of Your Child’s Life For over fifty years, public-school officials and politicians have tried one education fad after another. They have all failed. Children should not be turned into victims and educational guinea pigs by public-school authorities. Here's why public schools can waste 12 years of your children’s lives and destroy their love of learning: Public School Prisons Like prisons, public schools impose their will by force, by compulsion. Local governments force parents to send their children to public schools just as the police drag convicted criminals into prison