I started learning how to be a homeschooling parent the day I gave the boys their first school lessons. But, even after that first lesson it took months to create a working curriculum. I was clueless about how much time I should spend per day teaching, on which subjects to concentrate first and, most [...]
Below is a video of Alan, my 5 year old, doing his Master Reader lesson from Hooked on Phonics. He read the first chapter earlier in the day, and I was so proud of him that I asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing it again for the camera. The green level represents the [...]
Homeschooling my kids is one of the great pleasures I have in life. I get to be responsible for their mental growth and to shape them into productive citizens. My job description is this: Increase my kids’ chances in life through quality education and direction. It’s my responsibility to teach them everything they need [...]
Over the course of the last two years I have gone through several Math programs for my boys. Each one has been, in some way, flawed. Hooked on Math (from the Hooked on Phonics people) is good, but it isn’t a complete program. I’ve been using DK math which I like, but it is [...]
I hear it all the time. The first thing people ask me when I tell them I homeschool my kids is, “Well, what about social interaction?” There is clearly a perception that homeschooled kids are ill adjusted compared to their publicly schooled counterparts. Frankly, anybody who suggests that my kids are socially awkward, [...]
One of the reasons I home school, and possibly the biggest reason, is the freedom it offers us to travel and learn wherever we might be. We are on a three week family vacation now and have been traveling from Colorado to North Carolina to Florida. We’ll be heading to Virginia in a week [...]
I was asked recently to describe what I do to home school my kids. It has taken me a year or so to really refine the things I am teaching and my methods for doing it. But, I have a system now that is working pretty well for everyone. I am concentrating on the [...]
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