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Hi there, Mr. HomeScholar here... It has come to my attention that homeschool dads will sometimes struggle understanding their wives.  Lee asked me to help explain the homeschool mom perspective to the dads out there. As a public service, I wanted to share my Homeschool Mom Universal Translator with your husband.  Could you please pass this on to him?  Consider it my gift to you. You might want to print this out and keep it in...

Summer break is important. Homeschoolers don't usually follow a regular school schedule, however. How do you know when to stop for the summer? When do...

Middle school is your training ground. For parents, these years serve two main purposes. First, it's a time to learn about and prepare for high school...

~ A word from our founder, The HomeScholar Emeritus, Lee Binz ~ I was thinking about socialization because of a conversation I recently had with a non...

It's a challenge to homeschool gifted children. They eat up curricula and books almost as fast as you can get them, they want deeper and deeper conten...

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Classical Conversations is a very frequent topic amongst homeschoolers with families on both sides of the debate. Some saying the organization is why ...

2024 is over. Perhaps it wasn't as successful as you had hoped. All parents in our profession have days we feel like giving up. But I love that the sc...

Do not shy away from the creation-evolution debate. While it's not critical to teach to younger children, high school students need to have some under...

If you're here, that means you're thinking about pulling your child from public school and starting down the homeschool road. Welcome! I'm so glad you...

I recently picked up a high school textbook called "American Literature" to see what public school kids were reading these days. First of all, it was ...

When we talk about foreign language with parents, the most common questions we get are about Rosetta Stone. Is it good, is it bad, do colleges accept ...

If your child can't sit still through a lesson, if you have journals jam-packed with little doodles, if every spare scrap of paper has a tiny drawing ...

One small little-kept secret about going to college as a freshman means you have to retain your freshman status until you begin at the University. Tak...

Sometimes homeschooling can feel overwhelming, like an impossible mountain. When you focus on the whole year, or the entirety of high school, feelings...