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Straight Talk to Parents and Teens from Homeschool Graduates

    Homeschool Freebies of the Day has a very interesting offering today, Straight Talk To Parents and Teens from Homeschool Graduates.  This 83 page eBook shares the responses of more than 200 homeschool graduates to a survey that concentrated on four questions.      1. What is your best advice for PARENTS who are currently homeschooling […]

Q: How do you do it all? A: You don’t have to.

Just how can I get it all done?  This is the question that haunted me for many years.  There were so many things that needed doing, and I just couldn’t get them all done.  So I read time management books (for fun and relaxation) and I did learn a lot from them.  But… I still […]

High School Marks

I love homeschooling and its incredible academic benefits.  On the other hand, I do not love marking, and the niggling doubts that it brings to my mind.  Fortunately, where we live grades are not required, and therefore my younger children never receive them.  (They do get happy faces for perfect pages, though.)  On the other […]

Why We’ve Never Joined a Co-op

 Homeschool co-ops are great.  Many people tell me so, and so do many books.  Even so, in all our years of homeschooling, we’ve never attended one. Most of the time, the logistics just have not been right.  Either I was pregnant and tired, or I had a fussy little one, or it was too far […]

Homeschool Crew Review: The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling

  Although Apologia is known for its superb science textbook series, it now also publishes other helps for homeschoolers such as The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling by Debra Bell.    This Christian book presents more than 500 pages of advice for the homeschooling parent including whether or not you should homeschool learning styles organizing academics (curriculum, planning, […]