Every kid goes attend some types of school, whether it’s private, or public, or a boarding school.

As children grow out of their little pants and are ready to begin their teens, many parents wonder if they should continue with the homeschooling program. They fear that colleges may not give equal opportunities to a child educated at home. Many fears of this kind were put to rest when 2 homeschooled boys got [...]

Why let Tim and Lisa learn at home than send them to school? Well, first of all, you don’t have to wake them up at 7 every morning and bundle them off to school with umpteen numbers of instructions, and wait with an anxious heart till they return. Homeschooling gives you more control over the [...]

Grading in homeschooling is done by the teacher-in-charge. In most of the cases, this means mom! In this situation, grading can get a bit tricky because it can be a little difficult to grade your own child. There is no benchmark against which you can evaluate your child’s performance. In most cases, you also have [...]

When a parent takes on the responsibility of educating his or her child, home school burnout is one of the more common issues they have to deal with. There are many reasons that lead to this burnout: an illness, a new baby, added responsibility, changes in routine etc. The symptoms of burnout vary from lack [...]

Home schooling is not a new concept. It has been around for years and once again is making rounds as the favored choice of many parents. The concept involves an interaction between the parent and the child. The traditional brick and mortar school building is replaced by the comfort of the home and the teacher [...]

Just like regular teachers, parents who home school their children have to prepare homeschool lesson plans. They need to have lessons ready in all subjects and if they have several children doing different grades, they may have a hard time being able to find the time to prepare all the different lessons for the next [...]

The idea behind home schooling involves to handle a curriculum at home. When parents take a decision to home school their children, they bear the onus to help the child to cope with the syllabus recommended by officials for that particular grade or level. There are a number of methodologies adopted for home schooling. With [...]

Home schooling refers to the education of children at home, usually with the parents as teachers. Not many people realize that over one million children worldwide receive their schooling in this manner. In some countries of the world, such as Germany, it is illegal and the law requires parents to send their children to a [...]

Teaching children responsibility is the goal of education whether it takes place in a regular school setting or through home schooling. Many parents feel that the regular school can do this much better than they can, but this is not so. Parents are the child’s first and most important teachers and it is through the [...]