Introductions

Katie - posted 5 days ago

Hello everyone!!

My name is Katie and I am starting my first year of homeschooling kindergarten and i'm so scared and excited! I currently work full time and attend a online university full time as well. I'm a busy mama but I am loving every minute!

Jennie - posted on 06/05/2013

Hi, my name is Jennie. We live in California and are homeschooling our 2, (almost) 6, and 7 year old. Really excited for this next school year to start!

Mandy - posted on 05/27/2013

Hi everyone! My name is Mandy. My husband and I are considering homeschooling our 5 y. o daughter....well I am considering it and trying to convince hubby that we need to at least give it a try. I realize without his support it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to succeed.

Lis - posted on 10/07/2012

I also cyber school my 3 kids in pittsburgh pa. My kids do activities at our gym such as hip hop, dance, majorettes, and all star cheerleading. We own Pittsburgh Fame. We keep busy and lije to meet other home schooling families.

Marianne - posted on 08/17/2012

Hi, I'm Marianne and I live in northern Florida. I'm married and have 5 children. Oldest lives with her father for the time and she will be 10 in September going into 4th grade, 2nd is my 8 year old son going into 3rd grade, 3rd is my 6 year old daughter going into 1st grade, 4th is my almost 4 year old daughter, and last, but not least, is my 2 year old very energetic son! I'm starting homeschooling this year and it's become very stressful for me! We moved to a new county and the school system here is no good. I prayed and prayed for what to do and this was the best answer I have. My husband and I are both hands on parents and I feel that this will turn into an amazing experience! Even the kids are excited, which makes me excited! I'm not doing an online school since we will have multiple kids at once, and only one computer. Also, I feel that they will learn better with me teaching. I have found many resources that are helpful, however, putting a lesson plan together has proven to be the big challenge so far! :)

Crystal - posted on 11/08/2011

Hello everyone,
I'm a mother of two boys ages 7 and 4, and we have a little girl due in December. Currently I home school my oldest using K12.com curriculm. I also work with my youngest on the basic stuff because he technically couldn't enroll in an online school until next year. So far, I've been blessed with two boys who love to learn and enjoy being home with their parents.
We live in SC, and would love to make new friends. :)

Jenny - posted on 09/06/2011

Hi, we are a homeschooling family of eleven years. We live in Australia.

Michelle - posted on 07/14/2011

Hi, my name is michelle and I have a daughter who is 6yrs old called Jessica, I have been home educating since january 2011 and its the best thing I have done. I love it and my daughter loves it even more. I live in Croydon, London, UK. And don't think much of the schools round here. The deputy head teacher was my daughters classs teacher and she bullied her from the moment Jessica started Year 1. So I withdrew her. Im a qualified teacher and gave up working to do it. If you want to get in touch here's my email michellefarley30@hotmail.com. And that applies to any other mums aswell, would love to have a catch up. xxxx

Jennifer - posted on 07/13/2011

My name is Jennifer, mom to a 6 yr old son and almost 2 year old daughter. I am new to homeschooling however, I knew I wanted to after seeing the results from other families. My son will be doing a Kindergarten curriculum of math, art, science, handwriting and reading (phonics based). My husband and I chose to homeschool because of the flexibility, positive influence and teaching for his learning style (visual/kinesthetic). My husband has been on board since our son was born. We are very excited about this journey we are taking in the Fall.

Erica - posted on 07/04/2011

Hey, I am erica and I am 23 years old. I have a 4 year old, a 2 year old and another due in december. I will be homeschooling later this summer/fall. I just ordered Before Five In A Row. I am also very drawn to montessori and waldorf but, have been finding it far to overwhelming to make it fit into our lifestyle. So I use a lot of the ideas, our home is montessori + waldorf inspired I suppose!

Erica - posted on 07/04/2011

Hey, I am erica and I am 23 years old. We live in Alberta. I have a 4 year old, a 2 year old and another due in december. I will be homeschooling later this summer/fall. I just ordered Before Five In A Row. I am also very drawn to montessori and waldorf but, have been finding it far to overwhelming to make it fit into our lifestyle. So I use a lot of the ideas, our home is montessori + waldorf inspired I suppose!

Abby - posted on 03/09/2011

Hello all, I'm Abby. My husband is military, we are currently stationed in Colorado, and we have discussed at length homeschooling our children. I'm completely new to homeschooling but really feel it will be the best option for our children, who are 3 and 1. I've looked at website upon website and the wealth of information, while helpful is overwhelming. I'm confused as where to start, how to choose a curriculum or what resources to use if I mix and match. I'm here mainly for any advice you would be willing to offer.

Cierese - posted on 12/29/2010

I'm Cierese, homeschooling my three kids seems to be in the near future. Trying to get all the support and info before we dive in next fall. I have 2yr old and 10yr old boys, plus an 8 yr old daughter. I'm really excited about what the future holds and glad to have found this group site. :)

Patty - posted on 10/19/2010

will be 45 in Feb.( i am not dealing well with that but trying to forget about it) thought I was the oldest, but age is a # anyway, as long as we are happy, our kids are happy and healthy, our husbands are happy and healthy what more can we ask for :)

Patty - posted on 10/19/2010

Hi, we live in NJ and have a 6 yr old son he will be 7 in Jan. We take things from several curriculums, what fits our son and its a family thing its nice when my huband is at work my son and I have our time to do our schoolwork and projects and when my husband is home its either all 3 of us or the "boys" do a boy project for the day. . looking forward to getting to know all the moms would love to meet moms in our area if there are any.

Dj - posted on 06/08/2010

Hi everyone. My name is Dara. I live in Ohio with my husband and our three children.This will be my first year homeshooling. I have a 6 year old boy with ADHD. He will be 7 in October. My little girl just turned 5 in March and my other son just turned 1 in March.

Tina - posted on 04/29/2010

Oh I forgot to say I live in CT, and hubby is in the military.

Tina - posted on 04/29/2010

Hello My name is Tina, I am three months into homeschooling my 5 year old daughter who was in Kindergarden in the public school. My 11 year old son still goes but my daughter needs that extra time and was not getting it. I just hope I am doing it all with all I have been finding. If anyone as ideas i will take all them!!!!

User - posted on 03/11/2010

Hi everyone
We are a homeschooling family from Australia. We have been homeschooling for eleven years.

Greta - posted on 11/17/2009

(cross posting with other group with same name) Hi. A long post here! I’m relatively new to home-schooling. We tried online schools (OHVA and Connections Academy) with my stepchildren after they had been in city schools, but the curriculum was very nearly the same, still entirely progressive, so I, favoring a (non-neo-) classical approach, found it to be as inadequate as anything. They didn’t like it either, and for different reasons, they have gone back to city schools. My husband and I hope, however, that one may be interested later in some sort of home-schooling, especially since, although he’s in 7th grade, he has been reading at college level since last year, and although the school put him in all honors classes, he is never assigned homework. I haven’t seen his books yet (won’t bring them home) but I suspect they are as outcome-based and watered-down as all his others have been.



Our daughter is 4 and has been having informal/classical home-nursery-school. She is very excited about home-schooling. I explained to her (in simpler terms) the neglect I, a moderately gifted student, endured in school—in kindergarten, required 6 grades of acceleration in reading, 1 grade of acceleration with double pace in math, got only 2 grades of acceleration in reading, the math at normal pace with no testing on facts, later got held back a year in reading despite perfect grades (transferred from the well-regarded-but-sub-standard private school to the slightly worse public school, which had single- but not double-grade subject acceleration and no grade skipping), and received little education in grammar, mensuration, and U.S. history, and none in higher arithmetic, higher algebra, trigonometry, world history, logic, or Latin; not until after the start of 7th grade did I understand I was supposed to learn things in school, I fell behind at least 8 grades in reading, had trouble composing a simple essay, and I barely understood anything in my favorite subject, math. She is exceptionally gifted (made it to 4th-grade reading level with no lessons, then to 6th with 5 months of lessons, is now learning a little Latin too, and wants to go to Oxford and Yale and to become a mathematician), the schools are generally worse now in all the things I mentioned, and the schools in this (different) city are rated second-worst in the state. (The worst are in a nearby city—Yay, Mahoning Valley! ; ) The curricula are all pretty much the same, i.e. LCD, now with NCLB anyway—so mainly it means they are full of violent and ill-bred illiterates, many in gangs.) Obviously, it would be a disaster to send her to one.



My tentative plan: finish teaching myself everything I missed out on, and use mostly Classical Christian Homeschooling (this one: http://www.classical-homeschooling.org ), with the reading list of Great Books Academy (selections are more classical), some substitution of books from The Latin-Centered Curriculum (composition and science selections are probably much more rigorous, science appears to be objective, i.e. non-theological), and supplementation with some classic books found on and in Google Books, Internet Archive, the 19th-Century Schoolbook Collection, and the Dover Book Catalog.



Our general aim can be illustrated by this list:

http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/doc...

and these tests:

http://www.rense.com/general75/pass.htm (two tests here, one is in comment section)

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizzes...

http://records.viu.ca/homeroom/Content/L...

http://records.viu.ca/homeroom/Content/L...

http://records.viu.ca/homeroom/Content/L...

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb//ottawa/...

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2004/j...

http://www.kansasheritage.org/orsh/libra...

http://books.google.com/books?id=jnYXAAA... (original version of what is now the SAT)

http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.co...



My biggest challenges now are differentiating the parts of the curriculum that have been integrated, like, using classic reading books with a pupil at differing levels of reading (6th grade, as I said), analytical (2nd grade?), and elocutionary (1st grade) abilities, and figuring out what books at the higher levels of college-preparatory math use classical methodology, are up-to-date regarding developments in the science, are appropriately rigorous, and have comprehensive coverage of topics. I’d very much welcome advice, most of all from anybody also using a classical non-neo-classical method with a gifted pupil or student.

Tiffany - posted on 11/05/2009

Hi! My name is Tiffany. I am new to homeschooling, but so far, LOVE it! I am so happy I decided to do this for my family. I have three daughters, twins Samantha and Sienna who will be 4 in February (They are in preschool right now) and my youngest, Brianna, who is 2. I live in Pittsburgh PA, and I make my own curriculum. I look forward to meeting other homeschooling momma's!

Virginia - posted on 10/04/2009

My name is Virginia and I'm sorry for not introducing myself before but I've been trying too get some answers from someone and no one really has answered my posts. So when I saw you had a 7 year old I had to ask.

Virginia - posted on 10/04/2009

What kind of work are you covering with your 7 year old? My oldest son is 7 in Nov. I have 5 year old twin boys and a girl that will be two this Oct. My 7 year old is just starting reading by himself with help. He is doing early math. we are studying the body on kidshealth.com. He is learning spanish on the computer. he also practices his writing everyday. could he need more of something. I feel it might not be enough. I hope I'm wrong but still I need to know.

Linda - posted on 09/29/2009

Hi!

My name is Linda and I homeschool my 2 daughters - Age 10 & 8. We have been homeschooling since January 2008....when I pulled them from public school.

I run my own Travel Agency from home...Summers Travel.

Our schooling style is very relaxed eclectic. We live in the Cleveland Ohio area...where I've noticed opportunities for homeschoolers taking classes outside the home has increased a lot recently. We like the Metroparks programs at the different nature centers around town and we meet weekly with some other friends for playtime.

I love seeing where everyone is from and enjoy sharing resources. Check out my blog.

Linda
summershome.blogspot.com

Lee - posted on 09/16/2009

hey there everyone.
i'm Lee, and i'm a 30 year old mother of two munchkins, aged 3 and 9months. i plan on home-schooling and am already very casually working with pre-school books with my 3-yr old.

are there any other Canadian homeschoolers in here? i've just started researching the logistics of the paperwork i'll need to be doing.

thanks all!

Deidre - posted on 08/28/2009

My Name is Deidre and I'm homeschool our 3 boys ages 12, 9 and 8(will be in September). My oldest will be doing 6th grade this year. My middle son 3rd grade and my youngest son will be in 2nd. I work parttime 3 nights a week and my husband works fulltime for public works and parttime as a firefighter. We live in Maine. For curriculum I use a lot of workbooks and the library. My boys tend to like them better although all 3 LOVE Saxon Math! For reading we're using the McGuffey Readers.

Kelli - posted on 08/14/2009

Hello, my name is Kelli, I live in Northern New Jersey with my wonderful husband and 3 kids. son is 11 and twin girls that are 4. This is going to be my first year HS and I am so excited, as well as my son. I am looking forward to meeting other HSing moms...

Sam - posted on 07/10/2009

FLORIDA Letter to school board:
http://www.parentseducatingchildren.com/...
http://www.fpea.com/

Sam - posted on 07/10/2009

Quoting Cheryl:

Hi, my name is Cheryl. My husband, I and my 5 year old son live in Florida. I am still up in the air about homeschooling but it looks very promising to me. My husband is all for me doing it, I just don't know if I'm ready for it or even prepared for it. My son will start Kindergarten in August and 4 weeks later will be 6 years old. Since he can't go to school yet I've been doing Hooked on Phonics with him since he turned 4 and in only 6 months he finished the K and Grade 1 edition. He's reading at Grades 1 and 2 level. So I didn't stop there. I been buying him workbooks starting at Grade 1 and up for Addition/Subtraction and phonics books, etc and he's already completed 3 wookbooks. He absolutely loves to learn. With your experience, do you have any pros/cons with homeschooling. These kids are our future and we want the best for them and whom better can they learn from is with US. My husband's uncle homeschooled they 10 children and all their kids' kids are all homeschool and they too recommended the Abeka curriculum. If I choose to take this huge step, what steps do I need to take to allow me to homeschool my son? Do I need to talk to the school board and get permission first? This is all new to me and a little bit scary and I just want to make sure that I make the right choice. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a whole bunch.

Angela - posted on 07/07/2009

I'm new to this board but not so new to homeschooling. I'm a single mom with two children 10, and 12. My daughter has Aspbergers, auditory processing dysfunction, sensory dysfunction, low muscle tone, ocd. My son well he's 12. Nobody in any of my family or the kids family like homeschooling, they all hate it! Mostly the best argument they can come up with is socialization. I've just told them I'm homeschooling deal with it. We enjoy homeschooling usually, sometimes I burn out but mostly it's awesome!

Nikki - posted on 06/20/2009

Hello everyone - My name is Nikki and I live in Poland, Maine with my husband and our three children. I am homeschooling my two little ones who are 8 and 9. We use Horizons curriculum for Math and Health. Bob Jones for Social Studies, Science and English. I enjoy being a coach for twirling and cheerleading in our community. I also enjoy being the election warden, it brings many oppurtunities to teach my girls about government.

Helen - posted on 06/11/2009

I forgot to mention in my other post that we do a lot of lapbooking and "Flat Travel" to learn about other countries and states. I don't know if anyone else has heard of, or does, Flat Traveling, but it's exciting and lots of fun for children of any age. It's based on the Flat Stanley book and kids just soak in eveything they learn. I set up a website for flat traveling when my grandson did them. Looks like I'll be updating it now, for Krystina =)

Helen - posted on 06/11/2009

I'm Helen and I think I have you beat Carol *lol* I'm 59 (turning 60 in Oct.) I may be the only grandmother here who is home schooling grandchildren, but it's something I wouldn't change for the world. I worked with my own children, but not on a permanent basis.



My husband passed away a few years ago and I now live with my oldest daughter and her son. We have a home based business of making non-edible diaper cakes and towel cakes. Our plans are to eventually bring in edible cakes. I've been making edible cakes for years, but not as a business.



I began home schooling my grandson (Matthew, now 18 yrs. old) when he finished fourth grade, in PS. He graduated home school but wanted his GED as well so he went to the community college and took all his testing there for his GED. He passed and graduated (again) with honors. He then went on to take Pharmacy Tech l at our local community college and passed with a 99% average! His plans are to take Pharmacy Tech ll and possibly go on to ECU to study to be a pharmacist.



After a three year break, I will now be home schooling my granddaughter who will be 9 in October. She'll be in fourth grade (according to PS grades) and her 2 year old sister will also be home schooled by me. We will use Unit Studies but she will also work in a test prep book and a curriculum workbook (as I did for Matthew). The workbooks will be used two - three times a week just so I can see that she is staying on, or above, grade level and to comply with NC "recommendations", although it is not required. I will be able to tell if/where she may need help with the workbooks. Emilee will begin actual home schooling when she's a bit older.



Home schooling has been the best thing we could have ever done for my grandson and my youngest daughter said she knows it's the best thing that could ever happen for her girls, Krystina 8 and Emilee 2. I'm really excited about teaching them. We will go year 'round with breaks for holidays, and other events, and three day weekends once a month. Krystina gets very bored after just a week home and wanted to begin home schooling NOW, but we know she needs the break. We'll begin the first part of July, but it's not soon enough in her mind.



We are looking forward to our home school years ahead.

Jennifer - posted on 05/27/2009

My name is Jennifer and I am almost 35. I have three daughters, Kaitlyn 13, Jessica 9, and Ashley 8. I have one son Aiden, 1. I have been homeschooling my oldest since she started middle school which is the 6th grade. I live just outside of Orlando, FL. I made the decision a few years ago that I would let my children get through elementary school in the regular brick and mortar school, but once they entered middle school I would homeschool all of them. This decision came primarily after some incidents that occured with my oldest being bothered in a physical way at school. The school never handled it properly and she went from an honor roll student acing her FCAT's to low scores and grades. She also started acting out for that age and she just wasn't herself. We originally placed her in the Pre-IB college bound program at the middle school. We figured that if she were around children that were motivated like her things would get better. My daughter is a competitive dancer but wanted to take Art and Band also. So we signed her up for this also. When we received her test scores on her FCAT she was no longer able to be in that program. She had already started the Pre-IB camp and was getting ready to go to the courthouse for a mock trial. She was so excited, so I went to the school to talk to the guidance counselor. She told me that the only option I had was to place her in advanced math and language arts so she would still be with a motivated group. However, because of her scores on the FCAT (which I despise) she had to be removed from Art AND Band. She was going to be placed in an hour of math and an hour of reading intensive on top of her regular classes. This was horribly irritating because my child was being punished because she spent an entire year with a horrible teacher and a kid that molested her. This counselor never told me about the other options available to us, which I found about much later through my aunt who is a grant writer for the Orange County School Board. Anyway, I told the counselor that I was going to take my daughter and homeschool her. The counselor told me that I was teaching my daughter to be a quitter. I told her that the school district and state were taking away the children's motivation to stay in school. We parted ways on a very tense note. I do not like being talked to like that at all. The State of Florida is horrible when it comes to education and I hate it. Our Governor gave me a lame excuse involving race for the use of the FCAT and for some reason the decision is always made to constantly draw funds from our education. Homeschooling has been a life saver. I use a combination of Florida Virtual School (which is terrific) and lesson plans. My daughter's grades have been awesome. She is also absorbing everything without the stress of being in the class with loud students and teachers that can't help because they are trying to control the class. She is actually retaining more and is feeling more confident in her studies. Because we are in the homeschooling are, we do not have to take the FCAT. If I choose to, I contact the district and make arrangements. I know for a fact that I will be homeschooling my other children. It is the best way.

Atika - posted on 05/25/2009

hello every one. i am atika. i am 35. i am living in malaysia. i am from pakistan. i have 3 childern ages 11, 8 and 2. we have started homeschooling this year. both my elder children are ahead of the public school system here. and we love being free to set our own scheduel. we are doing the GCSE curriculum. we are doing so much more by homeschooling than being part of any school system. it is illegal here not have kids in school but i really cant take any chances when it comes my children's lives. we have found the public school system here to be so damaging to the children on so many levels.

Sandy - posted on 05/15/2009

Hi, my name is Sandy and I am wanting to start homeschooling in the fall. I have two daughters Taylor is 4 and will be 5 Sept 2nd and Kaylan is 2. I have decided to homeschool because Taylor is not able to go to public school in the fall due to the cut off date for enrollment. I believe that this will be great for both of my girls. Taylor is advanced for her age and do not want to hold her back just because the school system.



I have recently become a member of this group and wanted to get advice or resources for homeschooling. We recently moved to Ga and live in Columbia County so if there are any local support groups or classes I would like get things started.

Carolee - posted on 04/23/2009

Hello my name is Carolee, I am married to my best friend. My husband and I have four kids 19,17, 7,and 5. We are both homeschooling our 2 youngest kids and we are having a blast . We live in southern california . Love Charlotte Mason getting ready to check into Sonshine curriculum .

Renee - posted on 04/16/2009

Hi! My name is Renee, and my family lives in Indiana - just 30 minutes west of Cincinnati, OH. My husband & I have 4 boys - 7yrs, 4yrs, 3 yrs & 8 weeks (today!). I am homeschooling my first grader - we started on 11/4/08. We are using the Moving Beyond the Page interdisciplinary curricula for language arts, science & social studies, and the RightStart curriculum for math. My son is a gifted student & we found that the public school didn't have any provisions for him were unwilling to work with us. My background is in Spanish ed, and I'd always sworn that I wouldn't homeschool... I should never say never, because here I am, and I am loving it. My son is loving it! My husband is loving it & we definitley feel like it's one of the best decisions that we've ever made.

Cara - posted on 04/14/2009

Hi. I'm cara, mother of 4 boys (Caspian 7 - doing 2nd/3rd grade, Emeth 5 - doing K, Corneilus 2 1/2, Archen 7 1/2months). We started doing unschooling/letter of the week kind of stuff with Caspi when he was 2 or 3 and haven't stopped since. I got kind of discouraged and burnt out last year my first official year of trying to teach two grades at once: 2nd and pre-school. This year has been better because I think Emeth was more ready for it and we've been doing Galloping the Globe all together along with their regular Math( Horizons & Math U See) and Language Arts(LLATL).

I've started gathering my curriculum for next year. We'll continue with the same Math and LA and our core unit study will be American Story 1 from Winters Promise. I'm hoping to add some pre-school activities for Corny too, but we'll see how that goes. Potty training is the first priority with that one.

I guess my biggest issue is trying to work with the big ones and give the little ones the attention they need. Archie is going to be moble soon and putting everything in his mouth so keeping supplies like MUS blocks away from him and still accessable for the others is a challenge. Also I love to plan but staying motivated in the day to day activities is tough. I'm glad to have found a group to share ideas with and find support.

Thanks in advance.

Sharon - posted on 04/03/2009

I'm Sharon and I currently live in NC w/my 2 kids. My dd went to public K for a few months and had the most horrible experience... she was to the point of tears every night with homework and stomach aches every morning not wanting to go. So I pulled her out and we haven't looked back. We later found out she has dyspraxia, severe visual tracking problems, sensory integration problems and possible dyslexia. We use RightStart Math, Story of the World, Headsprout, Elemental Science, All About Spelling, and some Rod & Staff. For PE she goes to gymnastics and does occupational therapy. She is now 7 and is slowly beginning to show improvement. My ds just turned 4 and is quickly gaining on her in his reading and math skills. I don't do anything formal with him yet, but he seems to be learning by osmosis just by listening in on his sister's lessons. He's doing simple addition, spelling 3-letter words, and is beginning to read.



We also belong to a WONDERFUL homeschool group that meets every week, has field trips, 4-H club, chess club, public speaking, Presidential Fitness, science and art fairs, and so many other great opportunities to let the kids shine and continue to grow in more than just academic ways. It really is a blessing to know all the families that belong.



I may soon be a single parent, so I am trying to find ways to continue keeping my kids at home with me. I work in my church nursery, teach a homeschool class for a MOPS group, am "on-call" for the child-care room in a local gym, and sell Usborne Books so I won't have return my dd to public school.

Melissa - posted on 03/28/2009

Hello everyone!  My name is Melissa and I am mommy to B 4 and a G 8mths.  I have been thinking about homeschooling  a lot these days, so I want to know as much information as possible.  My son goes to preschool now and although I love his teacher I have this nagging feeling that I could be doing more.  He doesnt seem to be thriving in a "traditional" school setting.  I have been thinking about using the Charlotte Mason format because he loves to read, but again we have not committed to anything. 

Hopefully nobody minds me being here, because I am trying basically to homeschool myself first before taking this huge, life altering plunge.

Valerie - posted on 03/28/2009

We live in Granger, IN and have 5 children (with #6 due in Aug). We have four girls (19, 17, 7, 5) and one boy (13 months). We've been homeschooling for 7 years.  We use mostly Abeka, but also Saxon Math and Apologia Science (for the older ones).

We homeschool for religious reasons.  Our older two used to attend a private Christian school, but when we decided to have our third child, I quit working and we've been homeschooling ever since. 

Our days are busy, our lives full; but God has given me strength, wisdom, and patience to do what only He could do. Our family is much closer to one another and my children show love and kindness to one another (most of the time). 

I love gardening. My time is usually spent tending to the flowers: taking many pictures and planting more daylilies and hostas.

Laura - posted on 03/27/2009

Hello,

We are a family of 7 from Maine. Our children are 17, 9,7, 5 and 6mo

I am a Marine Corps vet and business owner of www.countrymoosekids.com

Dh is a Tech and life long Maine-r

I am 38 and DH is 46

Laura - posted on 03/27/2009

Hello,

We are a family of 7 from Maine. Our children are 17, 9,7, 5 and 6mo

I am a Marine Corps vet and business owner of www.countrymoosekids.com

Dh is a Tech and life long Maine-r

I am 38 and DH is 46

Nicole - posted on 03/24/2009

Hi any mum's out there who home Ed or thinking about home education in Great Britain? love to here from you for advice and support..

Chris - posted on 03/24/2009

Hey there! I'm a mother of 3, B16, G15, G13. We do American School of Corr. We really like it, it has really freed me up to get more of my own work done! We have recently moved to the country and are starting a small farm, working to produce our own food and breeding animals to sell. We are having a lot of fun with this and are really looking forward to this summer and getting more involved in outdoor activities :) My husband and I have been married for 17 yrs and counting!!!

Jess - posted on 03/13/2009

Hi, My name is Jess and I am 28.  My husband and I have four children so far (Erin aged 4 1/2, Billy aged 2 1/2, Christopher aged 17 months and Anna aged 8 weeks) and we live in a small country town in Tasmania Australia.  I home schooled myself during my highschool years and went on to Uni where I trained as a teacher.  There is a LOOOOONG list of the reasons we choose to homeschool and I don't have the time to type it out now - but suffice to say we love it and Erin is disappointed when we don't do "school work" in a day.  Our style is fairly eclectic and unique, but we are influenced my Charlotte Mason and Montessori in the way we choose to do things

Danielle - posted on 03/04/2009

Hi.  My name is Danielle, and I'm home schooling our 4 children.  We have 3 daughters ages 7, 6, and 4.  And, our son is 2.  We just moved to Connecticut from Missouri, so we've had to adjust to some changes in our schedules.  I love that I get to teach my kids in the ways that I know they learn best.  We have so much fun.  And, we get to work on our own time schedules.  It's great!  My husband gets to do some teaching on the weekends when he's home.  He enjoys it too.

Holly - posted on 03/03/2009

Hi! I'm Holly. I live in Newberg, OR. My hubby and I will have been married 20 years this year! We have three daughters ages 17 (graduating this year!!), 14 and 12. We've been homeschooling for 5 years. Prior to that our girls went to both public schools and private schools (as finances allowed). I swore I could never homeschool, and yet here we are! It's only through God's grace! We use a combination of Sonlight and My Father's World with lapbooking. We love it and my girls never want to go back to school. Our oldest will be going to Montana Wilderness School of the Bible in the fall - she was just recently accepted! Yay! Boy does that make me feel validated! Like I really can do this after all! :-)

Lisa - posted on 02/27/2009

Hi! I'm Lisa. My family currently lives overseas but we will be returning to the US soon. I've got two sons. I'm pre-schooling the oldest now and hope to continue after our move. We're working on reading, writing and some beginning math...so far, so good!