Views from My Rearview Mirror
What an adventure this has been! These past eighteen years have been spent by our family as a homeschooling family—a novel and not-always-positive label. We were “bizarre” in our educational...
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How to Get Started Homeschooling: A Dad’s Perspective
Today Michael Farris from HSLDA continues our Homeschool 101 series! Thirty years ago, I went to my very first homeschooling gathering. It was held in a family’s backyard in the Dallas area. There I...
View ArticleWelcome to the Adventure
First, to those of you who are thinking about homeschooling: Come on in, the water’s fine! To those of you who are just getting started: Welcome to the grand adventure of homeschooling! First, let me...
View Article5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Homeschooling
I’ll never forget our first year of homeschooling. I sort of “fell” into homeschooling, and so, admittedly, I was not as well prepared as some of you dear readers will be. In fact, I was about as green...
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5 Steps to Homeschool Success for Beginners
So, you’ve decided to homeschool your children next year. Or perhaps you had to remove your child from school in the middle of a school year. You’re excited, but you wonder, “Now what?” The beauty of...
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Top 10 Things I’ve Learned as a Homeschool Mom
I was a homeschool mom for over twenty years. My oldest now homeschools her eight children, two sons are engineers, and my youngest son attends college studying computer science (after a stint in the...
View ArticleLetting Go of My Homeschooling Paradigm
I was expecting my fifth child when I had to make the decision to either send my two school-aged children to school or homeschool. They had been attending a tiny ACE school where I worked two days a...
View Article5 Tips for New Homeschool Parents
Looking back over the years there is so much I have learned on this journey called “homeschooling.” So many times it is like God is teaching me as much, or even more, than my kids. If I could go back...
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Homeschool 101: Is It Legal?
In the days of yore, when I was a young homeschooler, the question people would most ask is, “Is it legal to homeschool?” People ask different questions today, because the answer to the legality...
View Article10 Do’s and Don’ts for Choosing Homeschool Curriculum
Have you recently entered this brave new world of homeschooling? Once you decided you would, were you overwhelmed by all of the homeschool curriculum choices? Here’s the good news: you are not alone....
View ArticleDear Parent Beginning to Homeschool a Child with Special Needs
Dear Parent Beginning to Homeschool a Child with Special Needs, Breathe. You’re ahead of the game. When I began homeschooling, I didn’t realize the extent of my daughter’s needs. As they became...
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In Search of the Perfect Curriculum
by Diana Waring Does the perfect homeschool curriculum exist? Query: If the right curriculum can be found, will it perform the magic—the abra-cadabra—to transform a student from ignorant to educated...
View ArticleA Brave New Homeschool Year
It’s that time of year again: the media is abuzz about the back-to-school season. Most American school districts have gotten back into the swing of things this month or will be starting things up...
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Homeschool Goals: Exploring Dad’s Role
As the homeschool principal, one of Dad’s most important tasks should be goal-setting for your children’s development. You can provide big-picture perspective that Mom, focused on the day-to-day, might...
View Article20 Ideas for Beginning your Homeschool Journey
You took the plunge by telling friends and family you were coming home to school. Just like anyone making a big life decision, you find yourself gulping back a sense of wistful remorse. What was I...
View ArticleFun Fall Field Trips
Where can we learn today? Homeschool field trips can be the most fun to plan during the summer and fall seasons. Parents can enjoy having fun with their children in many different and sometimes...
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5 Tips for Planning your Homeschool Year
While a scheduled plan can never produce homeschooling perfection, it can certainly help to bring freedom and flexibility to a harried homeschool day and ensure that both you and your children have a...
View ArticleRaising a Writer, Part 1
As a country, we have lost control of our language or at least the effective communication of it. Admit it. Most of the writing you do is electronic, involves abbreviations, has either all or no...
View ArticleRaising a Writer, Part 2
In “Raising a Writer, Part 1,” I talked about writing readiness and gave five tips for beginning to create a writing spark with preschoolers. In part two, I will add five more tips to the list and talk...
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Fun Vocab Homeschool Tool
Since the beginning of summer, I’ve been working with my son in workbooks and easing into homeschool. I keep telling him that the purpose of workbooks is to practice following instructions and to have...
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