“I CAN’T CONTROL MY KID!!” (Part I)
by Steven David Horwich

This is the fifth article in a series answering hard questions dealing with homeschooling. In article one, we made a brief list of major concerns and objections one might encounter to homeschooling.  Let’s take up the fifth point on that list now.

- Some children may be a handful for the family to “handle”.

by Barbara Frank
 
A while back, television reporter John Stossel wrote yet another of his columns criticizing America’s public school monopoly, where he also explained why we need school choice. I’m with him on that. But after bringing up homeschooling and how successful it is, he made a comment that bothered me. He said,
 
I don't know how these homeschooling parents do it. I couldn't do it. I'd get impatient and fight with my kids too much. But it works for lots of kids and parents….
 

I’M MOM!  I’M NOT QUALIFIED TO TEACH!
by Steven David Horwich

This is the second article in a series, answering hard questions dealing with homeschooling.  In the first article, I discussed how a person might overcome the problems of no money and no time. 

In article one, we made a brief list of major concerns and objections one might encounter to homeschooling.  Let’s take up the second point on that list now.

by Steven David Horwich

I often am asked if every family should homeschool.  There are families that appear ill-equipped to homeschool.  There are many reasons why a family might struggle to homeschool, or even find it nearly impossible.  Some of the more obvious reasons include:

- There’s no parent at home to work with the child, and no money to hire anyone to do so.
- The parent or parents may themselves feel undereducated, and hence, not adequate to the job of educating their children.

by Barbara Frank
 
Our economy is in shambles, with millions of people out of work and even more overcome by debt they can’t repay. But don’t worry; over at the White House, the president and his cabinet are working hard to find a way out of this economic mess by creating jobs somehow. But they’re having trouble, maybe because only 20% of them ever had a job in the private sector. All they’ve got to work with is the theories they’ve learned from books and professors.

by Steven David Horwich

Homeschooling today is looked upon as an “alternative educational” approach.  Teachers, teachers unions, politicians and their buddies have worked very hard to try to convince us that homeschool is not “normal”, not “standard”.  It is presented as “fringe” education.  Who homeschools?  We are told by “authorities” that it’s largely religious fanatics and “problem children” that were considered too dangerous or slow for schooling. 

by Suzanne Wielgos

When we first became a homeschooling family many years ago, my husband was in graduate school and I worked a couple of part-time jobs just to scrape up grocery money.  Frugal living wasn’t a choice, it was a necessity.  I learned quickly that it is indeed possible to create a rich, wide-ranging homeschooling curricula while spending very little money.

When a family is new to homeschooling, they have many questions, and when they get the answer to one question, they are often met with ten more to replace the one they answered. It doesn’t matter if you are starting your homeschool journey with a preschooler or a teenager that just can’t “do school” anymore, there are always questions, and periods of “oh my goodness, what are we going to do?” 

Here are some answers to those often-asked questions.


Where do I start?

Have you ever wondered why people choose to homeschool rather than sending their children to public school, which is the norm, or often-costly private schools? Most families that choose public schooling do so because that is how they were educated, it is the normal way for children to be educated, and hey it’s “free.”

by Sun Bae

In last month’s article, we explored whether homeschool was right for you.  Now, let’s look at whether homeschool is right for your child.   

Top Factors To Determine Whether Homeschool Is Right For Your Child
There are 4 factors to consider when answering this question: