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Meal Planning & Preparation for Homeschoolers

An organized home may seem impossible when you have kids around all day long, but it can be done. Here are tips and ideas that will help your household run smoothly.

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Pom Pom Math Activities

These fun math games help encourage counting and color matching using pom poms.

There is a cognitive dissonance about public schools. Everyone knows public schools in the US are terrible, but everyone thinks their school is the exception. The reality is that your school would be the exception only if it teaches using project-based learning. Which it doesn’t. The public schools that are exceptional are exceptional at teaching to the test – a process that’s widely discredited. Give your kids more credit than that. Reformers say child-driven learning and project-based learning are best. Parents are the only educators in a position to do that. So all kids will get a better education at home.

50 Reasons People Choose to Homeschool

Reasons for homeschooling are different for everyone. Here are 50 of the more common reasons the families decide to homeschool their kids today.

How the Media Gets It Wrong About Homeschooling

Homeschoolers have gotten their share of bad coverage in the media and in popular culture in the last few years. The publicity on homeschooling runs from atrocious mischaracterization to humorously stereotypical.

The Baby IS The Lesson

Diane Hopkins shares the joys of realizing that both she and her children could learn and grow with the gift of having a new baby around during their daily life and homeschooling time.

HSLDA's Position on Tax Credits Generally

Although a credit or deduction could be helpful for homeschoolers, HSLDA opposes any tax break legislation that could come with governmental regulations. Homeschoolers have fought far too long and much too hard to throw off the chains of government regulation that hinder effective education and interfere with liberty. It would be inconsistent and foolhardy to accept tax incentives in exchange for government regulation. However, HSLDA supports tax credits that promote educational choice without threatening any regulation of homeschoolers. - See more at: http://nche.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200504150.asp#sthash.tvLv2ItR.dpuf

Homeschoolers: Estimating Numbers and Growth, Spring 1999

This technical paper provides an estimate of the number of children in homeschooling.

Math Songs

These counting song are available for download. Lyrics can be printed.

Why the Future of Education is Unschooling

According to John Holt, unschooling allows children the freedom to learn in the world on their own terms. He saw no distinction between learning and living a meaningful life. Learning is a natural process and works best when integrated into the spaces and activities of everyday life. This article takes a look at some of John Holt's philosophy of education and explains why unschooling is often the very best choice of educational model.

How to Homeschool: When Your Child Has Already Been to School

Great tips and ideas for beginner homeschoolers with an emphasis on being flexible and open to new ideas. Discusses basic differences between the traditional school environment and homeschooling and how to adjust between the two.