Homeschooling

It all began when I was eleven and my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I have now been involved with homeschooling for more than 25 years and am blessed to be homeschooling ten children.

This page is designed to help you find the specific homeschooling information that you are looking for. Click on the menu above for posts on those specific homeschooling topics.

Below you will find the most recent homeschooling posts as well as an index of popular homeschooling posts here on the site.

Homeschooling is not the norm and we aren’t normal homeschoolers. So why do we do it? I’ve attempted to answer that question in these posts.

Public schools – Why they aren’t an option.
Our homeschool journey – How God sent us the blessing of cancer.
Goals
Homeschooling vs. the classroom
Socialization
Academics
Homeschooling and single moms
Family relationships

Homeschooling Advanced Subjects

This week the 4 Moms are answering the question “How do you teach advanced subjects like trig, dissection or a foreign language in your homeschool?” My experience of graduating from homeschool and entering college had a significant effect on how we view and handle this question with our children. First, I’m sure many people would…

Confessions: Giggles from Our Homeschool

Posted with Kaitlin’s (15) permission. For several years our goal has been for Mark to be more involved in homeschooling our children, specifically as they get into the upper grades. We’ve slowly and surely made progress in this direction and this year Mark is the primary homeschool parent for our oldest children. (He plans, gives…

Read the Bible in 90 Days: Go

If you’re following our Bible reading plan for the year (our 2012 plan worked so well that we’re doing the same in 2013) you just finished reading through the Bible, if not, now is a perfect time to jump in and read the Bible in 90 days (or in 6 months or in a year). Today’s…

Laziness and Arrogance – Helping Our Children Work Hard with a Happy Attitude: Part 2

At the beginning of yesterday’s post I mentioned how difficult it is for me to answer this type of question to those who do not know me and my family personally and based on several of the responses to that post I did not overcome that difficulty and failed to present a balanced answer. Yesterday’s…

Helping Our Children Work Hard with a Happy Attitude: 4 Moms

“How do you teach your children to work hard with a happy attitude?” That’s the question that the 4 Moms are answering today and it’s a hard one. Edited to add: Obviously I didn’t handle this topic well, so please read Part 2: Laziness and Arrogance for a more balanced picture. First of all, we…

How we homeschool:

Husbands and Homeschooling
Our Homeschool: 6 Distinctives
How we homeschool: an overview
The Reality – A live blog about what really happens during our school day.
Teaching younger children
Teaching older children
Teaching children with learning challenges

Teaching different ages and levels together:

A day in the life of a homeschooling family of 11 - Read minute by minute updates of one school day in our home.
Homeschooling with little ones: Part 1
Homeschooling with little ones: Part 2
How to use one level of Sonlight with all of your children
Our schedule
Our Sonlight school schedule
Putting it all together

Choosing curriculum:

Teaching Bible:

Teaching Bible
Bible reading - How and why we read through the Bible at least once a year.
Memorization – A step by step tutorial to create a system to keep up with all of the memorization passages that your children know.
Family worship

Teaching other subjects:

Homeschool House

Our school room - Updated pictures of our school room
Homeschool house – creative projects and ideas for making your home more education friendly.

Balance

Keeping up with housework and homeschooling

Curriculum Reviews

I’ve reviewed more than 50 homeschool products. To see all my reviews organized by subject visit the curriculum review page.