What Homeschooling Actually Costs Per Year, Line by Line
Published ranges put a homeschool year somewhere between $700 and $2,800 per child. Here is where that money actually goes, line by line, including the expense nobody puts on the...
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Child Struggling With Homeschool Curriculum? How to Tell
Three mornings in a row it has ended in tears, and you are the one holding the receipt. Before you spend another two hundred dollars, there are six questions that...
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The Shortlist Method: Stop Researching and Decide
Forty tabs, three comparison charts, and a cart you never checked out. You're not under-researched. You're looking for a guarantee that isn't sold anywhere, and it's costing you September.
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Freedom Isn't a Building: Homeschooling by Experience
The week of America's 250th, I was in Washington, not for the fireworks. In the hours between, I stood in front of the real thing and remembered what an education...
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Taught to the Middle: Why Your Child Is Bored or Behind
One kid says school is "boring." The other brings home fine grades and a quiet knot in her stomach. I taught small classes and refused to teach to the middle....
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The Hours You Get Back: Homeschool & Family Time
Before one of my kids started public school, our family had two hours a day together. Then it vanished. Here's the time homeschooling gives back, and what it's really worth.
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