Home School or Public School: How to Decide

When you consider whether or not to send your child off to a public school or to keep him, her or them at home, you must take many factors and weight them carefully before you decide. There are, of course, process and consider to home schooling as well as to public schooling. However, the choices you make for your child's education is the basis of his or her future.

How To Write A Homeschool Unit Study

Regardless of what methodology you normally use for your homeschool, unit studies can provide you with a nice break from the norm sometimes. They are especially nice whenever you're trying to teach ...

School Uniforms and Public School Discipline

We have a terrible situation in our public school system with discipline and many parents deny that Little Johnny would ever misbehave in class. Teacher after teacher tells me in coffee shops across America of this scenario they go thru time and time again with parents in Parent Teacher Conferences to go over their child and their progress in school.

Home Schooling - There Are Some Disadvantages

There are a number of advantages to home schooling your children. They get the educational material you know they should be getting. They get the one-on-one attention you know they deserve. Moreover,...

Homeschooling: The Top 5 Tips For Success In Homeschooling Your Children

Making the decision to homeschool your children should not be taken lightly as it will have a definite impact on everyone in the family. The good news though is that families from all walks of life, all sorts of different backgrounds, and from every kind of income level are successfully homeschooling their children. So here are the top five steps for homeschooling success.

Answers To The Most Common Homeschooling Questions

Although homeschooling has become increasingly popular in recent years, there's still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding that surround it. As a result, many parents have questions about exactly what homeschooling is and how it is conducted, and this article will help answer some of the most common questions that are asked about homeschooling.

Teach Your Kids Arithmetic - The Teenage Number Trick

So you think you can’t do math in your head, huh? Well, it all depends on how you do such math. After all, if given the right tools to do a job, then the job comes out right often enough. So why fret over the small stuff? Too often mathematics is made out to be some mysterious subject, only to be mastered by an esoteric group of like-minded nerds who co-habitate in some forsaken land. Well, that’s not the case and one of the things I’m fond of doing is debunking this oft-held yet misguided notion.

Beware of the Five-Minute Break! (From A Slice of A Homeschool Life)

Do your children ask during school hours if they can take just a little, teeny five-minute break? Mine do. I'm not sure how they came up with the idea that they are entitled to do this (probably the first time they tried it, and it worked!), but they insist that five-minute breaks should be a part of every home-schooling day. Lunch and recess? No problem. Five-minute breaks? Beware!

Homeschooling - Can You Handle It?

Are you and your children cut out for home school? Homeschooling your own child has its advantages and disadvantages, but with total control you have the flexibility to teach your child values that cannot be taught in a public classroom.

Homeschool Spanish - 3 Ways To Liven Up Your Lessons

Are you looking for ways to liven up your homeschool Spanish lessons? If your kids are studying outside the home, would you like to make it more fun and exciting for them so they don't get discouraged? Come take a look.

Homeschooling? It Just Doesn't Matter

It really does not matter which curriculum, book, or program you use. Your kids will get what they need, when they need it.

Tips for Getting Started With Homeschooling

Homeschooling basics and planning.