|   Quick Start Homeschoolby Dr. Marie-Claire Moreau Ages: 1+I'm Dr. Marie-Claire Moreau and I created this tool to help you experience the same great joy, fulfillment and success that so many families have experienced through homeschooling. Join me as I explain homeschooling in simple terms and help you navigate the homeschooling universe of information. Subjects: resource, organization, tools, guide, homeschool methods, tips, techiques, activities, support
How to Choose a Homeschool Groupby Shay Seaborne Ages: 16+There are two basic types of homeschool support groups: general, and those with a specific focus. Within these, there are myriad variations. Understanding the variety can help you find the one that is right for you.Subjects: community, structured, network, online How To Start Your Own Homeschool Support Groupby Annette M. Hall Ages: 16+It can often take a great deal of time and effort to hook up with a local homeschooling support group in your area. If you can't find a good fit, what do you do? Start your own group of course. I could share with you my own personal experience...Subjects: homeschool, group, support, help 10 Tips For New Homeschoolersby Marye Audet Ages: 18+Homeschooling is a big, and sometimes, frightening step to take. You know your entire life is going to change in ways you can't imagine. Will you be successful? Can you do it?Subjects: homeschool, success, newbies, tips, advice, getting started Beginning to Homeschoolby Ann Zeise Ages: 18+Lots of tools and information to assist you in getting your homeschooling days underway...Subjects: education, children, homeschool Starting Out - Homeschooling Ages: 18+After years of fighting with them, and a parent/teacher conference where my son's homeroom teacher announced that he would fail 5th grade because he kept forgetting his pencil we decided that enough was enough...Subjects: school, home, education, freedom Getting the Homeschool Journey Startedby Denise Kanter Ages: 18+It is not uncommon for families to feel "buyer's remorse" after the first few weeks or months as new homeschoolers, and maybe with good reason. With every change or new beginning there will be struggles, some big, some small, and some monstrous...Subjects: get started, advice, parents, homeschool Curriculum To Unschoolingby Ann Zeise Ages: 18+To purchase an off-the-shelf curriculum or accept one from a school district's Independent Study Program often seems like the easiest way to homeschool. I'm going to tell you a story how we came to not using curriculum.Subjects: unschool, curriculum, ISP, materials Getting Started in Homeschooling Ages: 18+First consider the various legal options available to you in California. Pick one that best suits your family's current needs. You will not be required to continue with this particular option as long as you homeschool; one of the benefits of home educatio Inventing a Girl: An Experience in Homeschoolingby Fernanda Rossi Ages: 10+Lily Borenstein-Burd and her brother Russell have never attended school. They are among the one million kids that the US Department of Education estimates are being taught at home. "Inventing a Girl" premiered in June 2000 at the Contemporary Issues Film Festival. It won the Women's Eye Award at the Riverrun International Film Festival in North Carolina and it screened in New York City in the Fall of 2001.Subjects: resource, film, DVD, homeschooling, documentary, school, New, Confused, Considering...by Rebecca Kochenderfer Ages: 16+Making the decision to take control of your children's education can seem overwhelming. More and more families are making the decision to homeschool. Today more than three million children are being taught at home - by parents just like you.Subjects: learning style, goals, curriculum, new, advice, experience, support, resources, supplies, organization Planning for the New Homeschool Yearby Shirley M.R. Minster, MS. Ed. Ages: 18+Summertime is typically when homeschooling parents reflect on the school year just ended and plan for the next season that usually begins in the fall. They not only think about academic subjects, but also about household chores that need doing.Subjects: chores, planning, new, school, homeschool Pre-Homeschooling Checklistby Isabel Shaw Ages: 16+The most important question you have to answer - as silly as it seems - is, Whether you like being with your children. We know you love your kids, but you have to honestly ask yourself: Would you like being with them every day, all day long? Have a few honest conversations with yourself about this.Subjects: article, cost, books, curriculum, activity, freedom, decision, choice, getting started, homeschooling  Some Practical Advice for New Homeschoolers Ages: 18+The thought of homeschooling your children may seem quite overwhelming at first. There are so many questions going through your head. Where do I get curriculum, what curriculum should I use, can I really do this, and of course what about socialization? Le
The Road to Homeschoolby Annette M. Hall Ages: 16+For an entire year my daughter suffered in school, things did not improve. My husband and I often discussed homeschooling but it was a new concept, one that terrified the both of us. I felt ashamed because I was guilty of sending my new daughter someplaceSubjects: struggle, freedom, school choice, unhappy child  How to Get Started in Home-Schoolingby Karl M. Bunday Ages: 15+To get started learning in freedom, you simply start taking initiative for your own or your own family's learning. Thomas Edison gave his mother's homeschooling credit for his success in later life: "My mother was the making of me."Subjects: start, homeschooling, law
More Information About HSLDA Ages: 18+Although the Home School Legal Defense Association is credited with helping homeschoolers in its early years, many believe the organization has changed. HSLDA's actions on federal, state and local levels have raised questions about the organization's direSubjects: national, freedom Starting a Local Homeschool Support Groupby Shauna Smith Duty Ages: 16+I live in Roanoke, Texas, a small suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth, and the few homeschooling moms I knew drove miles for park days, field trips, and special events. I hate driving to the grocery store, so this routine did not appeal to me. Subjects: homeschool, group, support, help, activities, relationships, socialize, local group
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