Homeschooling
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Why Homeschool?
Benefits
- Flexibility
- Whether it's time, vacation, curriculum, or whatever, homeschooling offers a family the ability to make choices that are best for them.
- Build Community
- Homeschooling can bring families together with other like-minded families to share ideas, resources, and counsel. Homeschool co-ops are a great resource for meeting other homeschool families. When you homeschool and make an effort to find other homeschoolers, you'll find a valuable new circle of friends who, bringing their unique skill sets, are ready to help you succeed.
- Learn New Skills
- Taking Responsibility
- Taking Responsibility for training/educating your children is part of loving your neighbor. The responsibility is yours...take it by the horns! When you rely on the State for your children's education, you're actually coveting/stealing from your neighbor through the agency of a government that is willing to use violence. If you doubt this, try not paying property taxes and see what happens.
- Learn What You Didn't Learn The First Time
- Customize the Learning Experience for YOUR Child
- Education doesn't have to be one size fits all
- Limit Indoctrination by the State
- When YOU train YOUR children, you're not competing with the world as much as you are for their hearts and minds. If your children are spending 6 - 8 hours a day soaking up other peoples worldview, at some point you're going to have a problem.
- For More on "Why Home School"? Watch the documentary film, IndoctriNATION, click here for trailers
School to fool
Are schools and educational institutions used as a social tool?[1]
Schools as Tools Has someone used the modern public schools to mold the minds of America for their own purposes. [2] Printable 5" X 8 1/2" Pamphlets Standard 8 1/2"X 11" Print Friendly
Resources
- Homeschool Laws in Your State
- home-school.com - Lots of good information here about how to get started and connected with the homeschool community wherever you are. See the GROUPS link for co-op information.
- Alliance for Self-Directed Education - Comprehensive, searchable database that contains listings of SDE-aligned schools, learning centers, co-ops, collectives, books, films, websites, workshops & training, professional services, and more.
General Curriculum Information
- Also, check out her top 100 picks - the advantage to something like this site is that she doesn't play favorites w/ one curriculum provider. She chooses the providers who are best at what they do - making it easier to tailor your child's education to their talents & interests.
- Small company that puts together packages of some of the best curriculum, including educational toys, for birth through high school (yes, birth!)
- Here's an example of a "box" type curriculum - everything you need to teach comes in a box from the same company....they do some things well & some things are pretty dry.....but sometimes a highly structured, scripted plan can help get you started.
- Dr. Robinson K-12 Homeschool Curriculum. Developed by a scientist and his six children.
- Classical Curriculum Online Courses Available
- Veritas Press Online Courses Available
Online Homeschool Programs
- Breakaway Learning - Tremendous interview with retired World Bank development economist and home-schooling mom, Colleen Mascenik, creator of Breakaway Learning, a computerized program designed to help teens build customized learning plans around the subjects and issues that interest them.
- Brilliant.org "Also known as Brilliant, is a website and associated community that features problems and courses in mathematics, physics, quantitative finance, and computer science. Brilliant is intended to discover and cultivate the mathematical and scientific thinking skills of students, professionals, and hobbyists around the world.[2] It operates via a freemium business model." - Wikipedia
Specific Course Curriculum
Anatomy
Biology
Economics
- Stossel in the Classroom explanation // Stossel Classroom YouTube Channel
- The Tuttle Twins book series
- Free Market Rules: Weekly curriculum from the creator of "The Tuttle Twins" to help learn the nuts and bolts of free markets and the ideas of a free society.
- Kidpreneur Book and Facebook Group
- Acton Children's Business Fair
- Secret Millionaires - Entrepreneurial Video Training for Children
- FI$H Economics uses vibrant animation and storytelling to bring economic ideas to life
Foreign Language
- http://www.rosettastone.com/ Any language you can think of.
- http://www.littlepim.com/ Foreign Language for the Little Ones - Get them started early!
- http://www.memoriapress.com/ Latin/Classical Instruction
- http://www.veritaspress.com/ Latin/Classical Instruction
Geography
- Mapping the World by Heart curriculum Students develop a comprehensive knowledge of geography that allows them to map the world entirely from memory. Grades 5-12.
History
- Consider podcasts on the subject...
- The Dangerous History Podcast - History with an anarchist point-of-view - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
- Hardcore History - Dan Carlin is considered THE superstar of history podcasts.
- History on Fire - I don't like his accent, but he's still better than any history teacher I ever had.
- Martyr Made provides amazing detail about the history of Palestine starting in the early 1900s through the establishment of modern Israel. Totally altered my perception.
- Maritime History - World history from the perspective of boats.
- The History of Rome - Mike Duncan is the preeminent podcaster on Roman history.
- Our Fake History discusses common lies and myths of history.
- Books/audiobooks also offer possibilities
- MY FAVORITE: Steve Berry is a former lawyer who digs out tons of interesting, forgotten, alternative historical details in his Cotton Malone series
- Clive Cussler always weaves intriguing historical events throughout his novels. His protagonists always seem to have high moral codes.
- Saxon Tales series by Bernard Cornwell chronicles the epic saga of the making of England.
- Pillars of the Earth centers around the building of a cathedral in England during the early Middle Ages. This books starts the hardships and triumphs of several families. Later books follow later generations of those same families as the community around the cathedral develops.
Logic
- http://fallacydetective.com/ Really helps your children to develop discernment. Cuts through the propaganda like a hot knife. Teaches children how to debate effectively.
Math
- http://www.mathusee.com/ Uses manipulatives and videos to teach math
- http://www.mathmammoth.com Math Mammoth: Very effective and affordable. Grades 1 - 12
- http://www.TabletClass.com TabletClass: Amazing video math teaching PreAlgebra, Algebra, Geometry & Algebra 2.
- Math Bot: Learn math by programming a robot - from counting to calculus.
Reading
- Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons I can't say enough good things about this approach. There are over 1000 reviews on Amazon. Rated 4.5
Science
- http://www.apologia.com/ Creation Based Science Curriculum
- http://www.superchargedscience.com Supercharged Science K - 12
- Astronomy - Electric Universe Theory uses demonstrable experiments to overturn mainstream theory that depends upon fantasies like black holes and dark matter to fill the gaps in pure mathematical that have no foundation in reality. As this new understanding of the universe develops, it will completely transform our understanding of things like mythology, biology, geology, medicine, and more. These two interviews provide a good overview...
- Mythology - Video - Symbols of an Alien Sky provides new, concrete foundations
Various Methods Overview
- Excellent overview of various methods & styles of homeschooling w/ links to a few companies that support each.(There are hundreds more in each category though!). We did pretty straight classical for our first 5-6 years but have transitioned to eclectic & self taught as our children entered high school. Our pre-ks are getting more Charlotte Mason & Montessori right now & will probably stay there awhile.
- Just like the name says, homeschooling on a shoestring! No or low cost ways to educate your children at home....this link is actually more of the above as far as methods but the site has a lot more to explore...more below on free or low cost curriculum
- Thomas Jefferson Education is an educational philosophy and a methodology by which great individuals throughout history were educated. Our family has successfully incorporated this philosophy into our homeschool. We started with the book, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and the articles on the TJed.org website.
More Resources
- Free Charlotte Mason-type lessons for k-12
- Old Fashioned, but pretty good stuff & free
- Introduction to Montessori Methods at Home
- The Wal-Mart of Homeschool Resources
- Project Based Learning Article for Homeschoolers
- Toys from Trash
- Book: A Thomas Jefferson Education
- Home School Buyers Co-op - The World's Largest Buyers Club for Homeschoolers
- Biblical Educator Gary North - Free book downloads
- 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More
- 100 Famous Homeschoolers
- Largest free ebook library
Books for Children
In this video Libertarian author Connor Boyack explains how homeschooling his own kids helped him discover the need for children's books that embrace the liberty/anarchist worldview. His Tuttle Twins series has started with children's versions of Bastiat's, The Law, and Freidman's explanation of the free market through the creation of a pencil.
Also recommended
- Three Friends Free, shows how we all use voluntary interactions in our every day lives and what happens when violence is introduced.
- The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland. It's probably more suitable for early teens. The newest edition is even designed with questions at the end of chapters.
- The Uncle Eric Book Series which includes the popular economics lessons Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and The Money Mystery: The Hidden Force Affecting Your Career, Business, and Investments
Articles
2020
2019
- 2019-10-23 You can homeschool in less than two hours per day
- 2019-10-21 Micro-School Network Expands Learning Options
- 2019-10-17 This Family is Moving Into an RV for Travel and "Road Schooling"
- 2019-10-13 Homeschooling cuts about $2 million from Harrison School System's funding
- 2019-09-17 "Developed in the mid-1960s as an alternative to the consolidation of the public schools in Ontario, Amish communities build and maintain their own schools, provide their own curriculum and pay their own teachers. They do not accept any government funding. Some see a direct connection between the development of parochial schools and the very high rate of retention among Old Order groups." See Article
- 2019-09-06 How “Unschooling” Can Benefit your child and the world
- 2019-06-05 100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
- 2019-06-03 Forest school raises free-range, resilient kids and happy moms
- 2019-04-23 The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids
- 2019-04-19 I Wanted Unstructured Play Time for My Kids So I Started a Gang
- 2019-04-15 Homeschooled children are far more socially engaged than you might think
- 2019-03-25 How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
- 2019-03-21 Experts say we need to let kids get dirty and get hurt as part of growing up
- 2019-03-19 Parents - Stop Worrying and Let Your Children Climb Trees
- 2019-03-15 Is the College Cheating Scandal the Apex of the Over-Parenting Epidemic?
- 2019-03-13 How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
- 2019-03-11 How did socialism become okay in America? Through the schools
- 2019-02-27 Study: Kids Who Spend Time in Nature Become Happier Adults
- 2019-02-26 The Absurd Structure of High School
- 2019-01-22 Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That
- 2019-01-21 After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting
- 2019-01-11 Sheltered Homeschooler Struggles Through Life And Settles For Marrying Miss Universe
2018
- 2018-12-03 Rage against the machine: programming the human mind
- 2018-11-25 How Schools Thwart Passions
- 2018-11-19 Why Kids Need Wilderness And Adventure More Than Ever
- 2018-10-29 John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America's Most Courageous Teacher
- 2018-10-12 Parents are giving up on public schools to home-school their kids
- 2018-10-05 Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn't Have Them?
- 2018-09-24 Stay-at-home moms and dads account for about one-in-five U.S. parents
- 2018-09-03 To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To 'Let Grow'
- 2018-06-21 Our Children's Busyness Is Not A Badge Of Honour (And Why We Need To Change It)
- 2018-06-18 Learning how to learn: the last excuse for school
- 2018-06-05 Homeschooling skyrockets as more parents get fed up with Left-wing social engineering and violence in public schools
- 2018-05-30 Thanks, Google! Homeschool Co-ops Going Hi-Tech
- 2018-05-21 13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability In Kids
- 2018-05-19 It’s Time to Focus on the ‘School’ in ‘School Shooting’
- 2018-04-29 What about socialization? The prison-like social dynamics of school
- 2018-04-26 The Perks of a Play-in-the-Mud Educational Philosophy
- 2018-04-16 Hard-Won Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat and Must Be Defended
- 2018-04-15 How Learning Blossoms in a School without Schooling
- 2018-04-12 The Truth About Homeschoolers in College
- 2018-03-18 How school ruins kids and how it has probably ruined you too
- 2018-02-22 7 Reasons to Shut Down Public Schools Immediately and Permanently
- 2018-02-14 The State weaponizes education to create ignorance
- 2018-01-31 It Takes Humility to Learn Deeply
- 2018-01-28 A Thousand Rivers: What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning
- 2018-01-18 World's first ethnomathematics program offered at UH
- 2018-01-12 Five ways schools destroy children’s freedom (and what to do about it)
- 2018-01-05 DANGEROUS Parenting: Tips on Homeschooling from a Hollywood Christian
- 2017-12-11 Why You Should Encourage Your Kid's Very Specific Obsession
- 2017-12-16 We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists
2017
- 2017-11-25 This is What Will Replace K-12 Schools and Colleges
- 2017-11-13 Education’s Future: What Will Replace K-12 and College?
- 2017-11-06 WeWork Wants to Teach Kindergartners to Disrupt Shit Up
- 2017-10-30 They Dream of School, and None of the Dreams Are Good
- 2017-10-12 I Teach at a University and I Unschool My Kids
- 2017-10-08 Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
- 2017-10-06 Why climbing trees is better academic prep for kids than filling out worksheets
- 2017-09-14 Why I Don’t Want My Kids Going to Public School
- 2017-09-06 Compulsory Schooling Is Incompatible with Freedom
- 2017-09-05 Teen Suicide Rates Spike as Back-To-School Season Begins
- 2017-08-31 No Homework, No Lesson Plan: Why I’m ‘Unschooling’ My Kids
- 2017-07-20 How Much Money Each State Saves Thanks to Homeschooling
- 2017-07-13 Why School Sucks (hint: it’s not because it’s “boring”)
- 2017-06-29 Homeschooling for Free and Frugal: Teaching Home Economics for Free
- 2017-05-30 Why Valedictorians Rarely Become Rich and Famous -- and the Average Millionaire's College GPA is 2.9
- 2017-04-30 The best reason not to home-school your children
- 2017-03-16 Road Schooling: Ditch the Classroom and Learn from the World
- 2017-02-23 What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?
- 2017-01-03 Why Americans are Getting Dumber and How to Fix It
2016
- 2016-12-14 U.S. Kids Keep Getting Dumber; Ranked 31st Of 35 Developed Nations In Math, New Study Reveals
- 2016-11-12 The Dehumanisation of Children
- 2016-10-19 Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die
- 2016-09-25 Open Letter to U.S. Education Secretary King Who Says Homeschoolers Would Be Better Off in Public Schools
- 2016-09-16 These Elementary Schools Tripled Recess Time And Saw Immediate Positive Results
- 2016-08-20 Homeschooling is the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century
- 2016-08-03 Wild and Free
- 2016-07-04 Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT
- 2016-05-24 Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?
- 2016-05-22 Is Lack of Play the Reason Kids are Depressed?
- 2016-04-17 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us
- 2016-04-13 This is why those weird moms homeschool
- 2016-03-07 Could Urban Farms Be the Preschools of the Future?
- 2016-03-01 Notre Dame Prof: Our Schools are Committing ‘Civilizational Suicide’
- 2016-02-29 The Truth About Gary North & The Ron Paul Curriculum
- 2016-02-18 What changed this teacher's mind about home schooling
2015
- 2015-12-17 We need fewer exams and more wilderness in education
- 2015-11-11 Stanford researchers show we’re sending many children to school way too early
- 2015-10-01 The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland
- 2015-08-11 Why Teachers, Parents, and Society at Large Have Destroyed Kids' Love of Learning
- 2015-08-08 Amount Of Students Homeschooling Increased 62% In The Past Decade
- 2015-07-03 Homeschoolers: It's for the Children
- 2015-06-10 Playing with Legos is More Valuable than Learning Algebra
- 2015-06-02 Elon Musk admits to “Unschooling” his Children
- 2015-05-06 THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
- 2015-04-07 The Five Tiers of Homeschooling
- 2015-04-03 Best Educational YouTube Channels for Homeschoolers
- 2015-03-31 School is a Building, Learning is a Lifestyle
2014
- 2014-09-29 How to Really Prepare Your Child For The Real World
- 2014-09-02 How do Unschoolers Turn Out?
- 2014-08-12 We Don't Need No Education
- 2014-07-12 What Do Grown Unschoolers Think of Unschooling? IV in Series
- 2014-07-02 Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning
- 2014-06-20 Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School
- 2014-06-16 Homeschool Family Sends Seven Kids to College — All by Age 12!
- 2014-03-19 The Advantages of Homeschooling
- 2014-02-19 Why schools are failing our boys
- 2012-04-16 Rewilding Our Children
- 2010-04-15 Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning
- 2010-03-29 The Onion: Increasing Number Of Parents Opting To Have Children School-Homed
- 2010-01-26 The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
- 2009-09-09 Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
- 2008-09-08 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part I
- 2008-09-17 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part II
- 2008-09-24 Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part III
- Benefits and Disadvantages of Homeschooling
- RESEARCH FACTS ON HOMESCHOOLING
- Cardus Survey—The Rest of the Story
Podcasts
- The Micro-School Movement
- Retired World Bank development economist and home-schooling mom, Colleen Mascenik, addresses the failure of both public education and college in the new world economy
- Exploring Unschooling podcast
- Tom Woods The Case Against Education
- Tom Woods How State and Society Invented Adolescence, and Screwed Up Young People
More Videos
- Gary Vaynerchuk - Why The School System Is Outdated
- Wheel Life Adventure: ‘Skoolie’ families turn retired school buses into homes on wheels
- Families homeschooling children on a boat while traveling around the world
- New California law will treat homeschool parents like child abusers
- Illinois Lawmakers Demand Home Inspections for All Homeschoolers
- 3 great untruths to stop telling kids—and ourselves
- Why safe playgrounds aren't safe for kids
- Stossel: Saved By A Better School
- Reason: Do Kids Need School? Inside the 'Unschooling' Movement
- Stossel: Saving Kids From Government Schools
- Dr. Gordon Neufeld - Hold On to Your Kids
- The Drs. Wolfson - ECO School, Fundraiser Promo
- TEDx | Peter Grey - How Schools Thwart Passions
- Michelle Malkin - The Big Labor Scandal of the Century
- Liz Wheeler: Liberal blames school shootings on homeschooling
- FreedomToons: Debates with Strawmen: School Choice
- Humanity Casually Explained
- Todd Wilson uncovers six lies most homeschool moms believe - HUMOR
- Reason: A Libertarian Builds Low-Cost Private Schools for the Masses
- Elon Musk "I hated School. It was torture"
- NASA Scientists: Education System Dumbs Us Down
- Stossel: Saving Kids From Government Schools
- The Case Against Education: Government Spending $1 Trillion a Year on Schooling Is a Waste of Money
- Six Problems with Modern Schooling
- This state school in England teaches kids how to shoot, and to gut and cook pigeons.
- Self-Directed Education: Allowing Children to Learn & Develop Naturally
- Trusting Children to Learn
- Christian Homeschooling Becoming Popular in Russia...Finally
- Tom Woods RAILING against the public schools
- If Government Ran a Grocery Store
- Sudbury Schools
- Actress Sam Sorbo on Why She Chose Homeschooling
- Are Your Kids Too Fragile? How to Make the Next Generation More Resilient
- Why is Teaching a Crime? California Denies Blue-Collar Workers Entry to Trade Schools
- The Pholospher: Top 3 Ethical Alternatives to Public School
- Stossel: Government-Run Schools Crush Innovation - Part 1
- Stossel: Government-Run Schools Crush Innovation - Part 2
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